Rice crisis
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- OSFA
Is this another case of paranoia or is it serious? Discuss...
- Point50
I prefer oatmeal anyway. hopefully 90% of our oatmeal supply doesn't come from Indonesia or Afghanistan
- oh man the quaker weight control oatmeal is the bomb!kona
- +1. Quinoa also kicks major ass.
http://en.wikipedia.…TheBlueOne
- mrdobolina0
it's real.
- kona0
who the f*ck buys that much rice?!? unicef!? jewel was full of it last night. as long as i can still score my brown rice i'm good.
- flashbender0
it's real and it is just going to get worse.
These are great time we live in brothers and sisters. Great times.
- mrdobolina0
all food prices are going up dramatically, you can't have outragous fuel prices and not have it cause other prices to skyrocket.
- Meeklo0
I'm more of a couscous, but I like rice too
- Cultr0
I'm scared as hell. Anyone have any tips for growing rice in Colorado?
- Just buy a bag of rice, make tiny holes in your soil, drop one grain per hole, and water it daily.Spookyhome
- I know what I'm doing this weekend!Cultr
- mrdobolina0
It's cool to not give a fuck about the world around you.
- Meeklo0
- So this should answer kona's questionMeeklo
- where do you think that rice comes from? an endless supply?mrdobolina
- Yeah, we only shop there because there are 7 of us....Jaline
- holy shit! that would last me 6 months!kona
- the carts there must be ginormous. "ok, we got rice, potatos, a crate of cereal, a drum of milk..."kona
- costco and sams club is the reason people need such huge houses.mrdobolina
- for their fat farting kids!mrdobolina
- WTB [big bag of rice] PSTCultr
- HAHAHAHAMeeklo
- The proportions are ridiculous, and that's why it should be for large families and/or events only. Unless you're storing...Jaline
- Spookyhome0
This is not going on in the UK to my knowledge.... is stuff generally getting bad in the US at the moment?
- yea , prices going up on everything left and rightBattleAxe
- Basic foodstuff prices are up, and their is an artificial run on rice, as opposed to a real one in other parts of the world.TheBlueOne
- This is actually less than a year ways from being completely fucked..lifterBARON
- TheBlueOne0
My wife just half-jokingly wondered aloud over dinner last night if we could get a chicken.
- mrdobolina0
price of food is going crazy, fuel prices finally bringing the price of everything else up.
- Spookyhome0
This is getting no coverage over here. I saw a headline today that fuel prices are going high, so maybe its about to start.
Fuck.
- don't you all have people freaking on petrol though?flashbender
- Not yet to my knowledge no. I live on the very peripheries of civilisation though, by the sea.Spookyhome
- oh, it is from a strike: http://www.guardian.…flashbender
- harlequino0
Have any of the newspapers called this a "Risis" yet?
- no, because that would be lame ;)mrdobolina
- Fuck man, you just read my mind. Was about to type Risis as you posted.Spookyhome
- Errrr, yeah Harlequino THAS JUST LAME. Ahem.Spookyhome
- lol harlequino!kona
- I'm sending an email to the editor at my paper right nowCultr
- hahaha! *ashamed I did not think of thatflashbender
- hahahaMeeklo
- Already copyrighted it. Y'all owe me a nickel.harlequino
- Yes, it is lame. That's why it WILL be on shitrags like the NY Post and Daily News.CyBrain
- kona0
the high price of oil will be the best thing that ever happened since sliced bread.
- In the long run.mrdobolina
- hybrid sales up 48%. can't watch a half hour of tv without seeing a green ad. foods up...kona
- ... the straw that broke the oil companies back is near.kona
- Meeklo0
not sure if I understand you dobs.. just wanted to point out that a lot of people consume way more than what they need, just cause its affordable.
- yup. eat to live don't live to eat.kona
- not sure what you don't understand.mrdobolina
- dobs.. we are just not sure! that we can agree on right?Meeklo
- sure about what?mrdobolina
- I'm sorry what is that?Meeklo
- harlequino0
I could be positive and say that maybe an actual global food emergency will absolutely force everyone to seek fuel alternatives over oil for shipping, but I know that's still unrealistic. :/
Wait till it starts fuckin with corn shipments, then we'll see some shit.- corn is being used for ethanol.mrdobolina
- i have a near endless supply of corn in my parents backyard. i'll sell it for $100 an ear. :)kona
- Is anyone using the ethanlol based fuel?harlequino
- brasil uses a shit load of ethanol. Ethanol sucks by the way. it is not a viable alternativeflashbender
- E85. you'll find most new chevys have models that are flex fuel. the bad part is they get worse mileage than reg fuel.kona
- ethanlol?
more like..ethanLOLZERSharlequino
- Spookyhome0
When England runs out of chips, the whole fucking world had better get under the desk.