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White Food Syndrome
From a prior weather post, John F. Eldredge wrote:
Nashville, Tennessee had mild weather up until a couple of weeks ago, at which point it abruptly turned colder. Today we are having mixed drizzle and snow flurries, with a current temperature of 37 degrees Fahrenheit, and perhaps half an inch of accumulated snow and frozen rain expected by tomorrow morning. If Nashville is holding true to form, people are probably going to clear out most of the milk, bread, and toilet paper from the grocery stores (any mention of snow in the forecast makes those three items sell as if a month-long blizzard had been predicted). I call that "white food syndrome". In this case "food" includes toilet paper and paper towels. Any time there is the merest hint of snow in Memphis the grocery stores run out of any and everything that is white. One year and work we started a list of "white stuff" people would buy just because the weatherheads said it might snow. We got so far as to list cauliflower... it became a running joke. Apparently it never snows here in southern SC so I don't get to experience the "white food" madness. Here's a white kitty for grins, though http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....-with-cats.jpg Jill |
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White Food Syndrome
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:34:48 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
From a prior weather post, John F. Eldredge wrote: Nashville, Tennessee had mild weather up until a couple of weeks ago, at which point it abruptly turned colder. Today we are having mixed drizzle and snow flurries, with a current temperature of 37 degrees Fahrenheit, and perhaps half an inch of accumulated snow and frozen rain expected by tomorrow morning. If Nashville is holding true to form, people are probably going to clear out most of the milk, bread, and toilet paper from the grocery stores (any mention of snow in the forecast makes those three items sell as if a month-long blizzard had been predicted). I call that "white food syndrome". In this case "food" includes toilet paper and paper towels. Any time there is the merest hint of snow in Memphis the grocery stores run out of any and everything that is white. One year and work we started a list of "white stuff" people would buy just because the weatherheads said it might snow. We got so far as to list cauliflower... it became a running joke. Apparently it never snows here in southern SC so I don't get to experience the "white food" madness. Here's a white kitty for grins, though http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....unny-pictures- the-gutters-are-clogged-with-cats.jpg Jill Oh yes, the toilet paper disappears as well. I haven't paid attention to the status of the paper towels, and hadn't thought about the fact that all of the items that sell out are white. Interesting. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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