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Forget the toilet roll shortage - Covid 19

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Forget the toilet roll shortage - This is serious stuff

US faces ketchup shortage amid pandemic

The US is facing shortages of tomato ketchup after the coronavirus pandemic led to a surge in demand for sachets of the popular condiment. Heinz, the most widely sold brand of ketchup, says the rise in demand had been “driven by… accelerated delivery and take-out trends”. The packs often accompany delivery orders and have effectively replaced the bottles kept on restaurant tables.

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The company says it has stepped up production.

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They could probably replenish supplies by asking half of the fast food customers to look under their car seats or in their center console. Millions of packets would probably be rediscovered :slight_smile:

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I think you are right! That, plus the increased production should ensure that ketchup supply can catchup with ketchup demand

FWIW, I just bought some last week, and the supply for bottles was fine. If it came down to it, folks can supply their own bottle instead of getting little packets. There have been some odd shortages. One was worcestershire sauce. What causes that?

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Some of you seen my garden/raised beds in pictures of my home for sale.

Inflation is starting to rear it’s ugly head. W and S Texas and other States in the area may very well not grow anything this year due to draught.

Even though we have our place on the market my gardening/canning/dehydrating/food preservation will be at max capacity this year. I’ve been planning for months.

I think it’s coming.

I save seeds yearly from some of my best plants/vegetables but I still buy “new stuff” to give it a try (I am a mad scientist in the garden) and I paid dearly for those seed packets in December when I ordered (higher now). Last year the same seed packets were $2.59/pack and now they are $6.95/pack. Burpee (where I order from) still has shortages and are putting a priority on all farmers first and foremost before the general population gets their orders filled.

I have a 4K sq ft garden and an additional 750-1000 sq ft of raised beds. I also have an orchard, vineyard, bramble patches (thornless black and raspberries), strawberry patch, and 10 blueberry bushes. We have two pressure canners, an “air fryer” that we can use to can food with, a commercial dehydrator and hundreds of vac bags for our vacuum sealer.

Here’s where I am at now (grow lights and seedlings). I have 50+ cabbages to get planted soon. I have 7 trays of seedlings under grow lights.

Oh the coffee filter and coffee grounds in the pic? Oh if anyone tosses their coffee grounds in the trash then they are clueless! Coffee grounds are are nitrogen. Coffee grounds should be tossed on your yard, in your flower bed, in your garden, in your compost pile. Nitrogen is what gives nearly all plants their beautiful green leaves…and plenty of them.

To all - make an effort to reuse your coffee grounds - best fertilizer that is generated in a household.

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Usually this shortage is caused by a widespread ignorance of the proper pronunciation, leading to much confusion, including the wrong product being manufactured or ordered. Although, it can be as simple as the store employee not understanding your request, and then claiming they don’t stock “Woodsockdryer sauce”

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I mainly use ketchup for chicken-65 preparation so I guess I have enough to see me for sometime. :slight_smile: But the shortage sounds odd though as there was surplus food items during pandemic start due to retail distribution issues and I would have expected that surplus perishables to have translated into an additional supply for a long term food product like this.

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@JohnM John you really need to get out more. Worcestershire sauce is great with steak, meat pies and potato crisps, Horseradish Sauce is great with Scampi & Fried Fish in batter or breadcrumbs, Sweat Chilli Sauce is great on Hamburgers, Beef Burgers , Lorne Sausage with Fried Onions. Mayonnaise is great on German Pommes Frites and HP Brown Sauce is great on almost everything except Ice Cream where I top mine with Raspberry Sauce.

Ketchup is great on Bratwurst and especially so when topped with a good helping of curry powder. (currywurst) German Mustard (Senf) is also superb on Bratwurt

Now put away the ketchup bottle and go tantalise your taste buds.

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Hi Archie, yeah I know. I used to eat outside always when per diem was paid for business trips! But not in the the last 3 or 4 years. I don’t know why but I don’t use sauce that much though. I know it supplements but I used to think it changes the taste. Last month I went to Bravo Italian restaurant and had Chicken Marsala! Great restaurant, great taste. https://www.bravoitalian.com/menu/dinner/belden-village. I liked the mushroom marsala sauce though! hmm… tasty!! OK I’ll try your sauce combo suggestions when I eat outside next! :slight_smile:

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