Central planners are at it again. In September, China ordered the country's top state-owned energy companies to secure supplies for this winter at "all costs." Now they're telling households to stockpile food ahead of winter, sparking wild conspiracies among netizens about heightening tensions with Taiwan.
According to Bloomberg, the Ministry of Commerce told households Monday to stock up on food in case of emergencies after a resurgence of the virus pandemic, heavy rains that sparked vegetable prices to jump, and the onset of colder weather.
-WiscoDave
Winnie the Pooh is an asshole.
ReplyDeleteChina, going back to antiquity, has always had a problem feeding their people. Now, with their vegetable production failing, guess where they're going to come, hat in hand, to obtain more food stocks.
ReplyDeleteBuydem will happily sell them whatever they want at below market prices, again sticking it to the non-corporate farmer. Of course the Chinese already own several US pork producers, one of the food commodities in the US that has remained fairly price stable at the grocery store. Expect that to change fairly rapidly.
Nemo
"Of course the Chinese already own several US pork producers".
DeleteYes, those are called 'members of congress'.
Xi is warning their starving hordes that when they invade Taiwan, Buyden may be forced to pretend to make believe he has some balls and stops feeding China.
The Chinese owned bacon brand, Smithton(?) Is really horrible. Please avoid them. I bought their bacon once, u knowingly. Once.
DeleteSmithfield. Garbage bacon.
DeleteMy favorite commercial bacon is Wright with (are you ready for this?) Walmart's Great Value brand running a close second. The only thing about Walmart bacon is you have to pick through the packages to find one that's not mostly fat. It does have a decent flavor though and runs a couple bucks less than brand name bacon.
Smithfield's hams aren't bad; a little salty to my taste (salt's the cheapest preservative, but better if your affected by sodium nitrite, which I have to stay away from, it gives me migraines).
DeleteI remember they used to have canned hams that were pretty good, but try finding one now.
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J.C. Potter, best bacon best sausage except for Blue and Gold sausage. American made. B and G supports the youth programs.
DeleteYou can buy Benton’s bacon online for $9 a pound. This bacon is made the old fashioned way 8n a small shop in Madisonville, TN. Full disclosure, Allan Benton went to high school with my mom, but it’s still the best bacon I’ve ever tasted.
ReplyDeletehttps://shop.bentonscountryham.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=hscb
Right on, I'll check them out.
DeleteYessir, world famous, too!
DeleteShop is a little hole-in-the-wall outside Maryville (Murrrrrville to us locals).
Tennessee hogs raised by Tennessee farmers slow smoked over Tennessee hickory. Can't beat that with a stick! Next time you get out this ways check them out.
Here, it's either Maple Leak, Schneider's, Burn's or the local butcher shop.
ReplyDeleteXi is preparing for war. If he can get enough people to stock up, then he knows he can concentrate on feeding troops without grumblings from the masses.
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!
DeleteThe CCP acts in their own peoples' interests.
ReplyDeleteThe US govt. considers their own people enemy combatants.
Probably won't end well.
Hey! We act in the interests of the CCP's people, too!
Delete- The US Government
re -- BACON
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Next time you visit Baja, try some Mexican BACON (aka 'tocino').
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Some American BACON is wonderful, all tocino is great.
Tocino is thick, juicy, smoked, from swine fed kitchen scraps... not grains nor soy.
Fact is, I wonder about the linguistic connection between 'cocina' (kitchen) and 'tocino' (BACON).