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

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.

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