{"id":26951,"date":"2020-10-16T06:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26951"},"modified":"2020-10-16T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:14:34","slug":"news-i-could-have-used-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/news-i-could-have-used-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"News I Could Have Used Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s why canned corn might be tough to find at supermarkets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Add canned corn to the list of supermarket staples that have become elusive amid the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has roiled the supply chain for canned sweet corn in several ways, meaning it might be tough to track down at your local grocery store, a new report says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Post<\/em> links to a Wall Street Journal<\/em> slideshow that has all the normal things: limited sweet corn production, limited and expensive transportation, brisk sales in the past. Basically, a lot of people bought canned goods this year, which depleted existing stocks, and not enough will be coming through the pipeline to replace all that was already sold.<\/p>\n

I say I could have used this yesterday as I went to the grocery and bought six cans of whole kernel corn on sale, and I should have bought twelve. As it stands, I culled our cabinet collection for the quarter and took a couple hundred pounds of cans, mostly vegetables, to the local food bank. The vegetables at our local grocery tend to have a “best buy” date that doesn’t move but every couple of years; when the canned goods in 2018 say Dec 2020, they will say Dec 2020 until sometime in mid 2020, which means everything I buy for a year and a half will become food pantry fodder at the same time. So I have far fewer just-in-case food on hand than I did earlier this week, and in an election year, too.<\/p>\n

Good thing I have news like this so that me and several million of my closest friends can make a run on the grocery stores to clear them of all canned corn to help solve the problem.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I need to get to the grocery more often. The whole pick up something extra every trip<\/em>, which goes along with the pick up something for the food bank every trip<\/em>, kind of fails when every trip is once every fortnight instead of a couple times a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s why canned corn might be tough to find at supermarkets: Add canned corn to the list of supermarket staples that have become elusive amid the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has roiled the supply chain for canned sweet corn in several ways, meaning it might be tough to track down at your local grocery store, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26953,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951\/revisions\/26953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}