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I’m not a fan of Wal Mart, but in my neck of the woods it’s the best and cheapest place to buy the hundreds of pounds of bird seed our greedy avian friends devour.
On this trip I needed milk and bread… which meant I had to traverse the entire store from left front corner to right rear corner because Wal Mart is nothing if not an evil marketer.
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Sandwich meat?
Not today.
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Breadless breading?
No thank you.
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And while I never, ever buy meat at Wally World…
This package of “premium pork steak” ensured I’ll never even be tempted.
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River's world..... 
But it’s hand-selected and hand-trimmed! You must be made of STONE.
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Better stone than fat like that pork chop. What was that pig eating… 24/7 McDonalds?
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He probably had a desk job.
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You do know that the flavor in beef and pork comes from the fat? That is why I get 80/20 Ground Beef for my burgers. 90/10 loses the flavor. I use these pork steaks for dishes requiring sliced pork, but at $11+ for a two pack, they can sit right there.
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Yes, a little fat is a good thing. But calling those slabs premium is just false advertising.
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You mean like calling something “Organic” when the Gub’ment only requires that 20% be organic to be called organic? Yup. I agree.
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We seem to have empty shelves in the grocery aisles too up here in 🇨🇦… Weird, this supply chain thing. Also meat at Walmart is gross. Poor factory animals…😥
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I don’t understand why now? All of a sudden, though the pandemic has been here a year and a half.
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It’s a lack of truck drivers. There were 100 containers ships backed up off the coast last week. The ports have shifted to 24/7 (weird that they weren’t already) and temporarily halted limits on stacking containers. But there’s no way to move them out of the port. Currently 80,000 openings for truckers! Yet driving through the port area (required to get to our vet) is a bitch due to all the aggressive truck drivers.
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I have a friend in California who said the state government recently changed the emission regulations which now bars a lot of older trucks from operating. That doesn’t help.
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I didn’t know they barred trucks but yes, the port went “clean” during the pandemic (pre) planned… though I don’t know what that really means because I haven’t cared.
There are a LOT more shipping trucks on the freeway now – most notable due to the ones driving in wrong lanes (fast lane?).
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From what I understand a lot of independent truckers have older rigs and are now being banned from the ports.
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That sucks! But there are a ton of trucking companies just outside the port. They cause horrible traffic on all my non-port routes to the vet. But they were there first!!
After the trucking area, I drive through oil refineries. Literally through… they’ve been bisected by public roads.
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It sounds very… scenic.
Not.
😉
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At least they’ve covered most of the “coking” facilities at the refineries. There used to be omnipresent gritty black “dust” everywhere!
Now I “just” have the air pollution from the freeways, the ships, and being under the airport ascension path!!
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Yikes. It might be time to move, before your lungs give out.
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I just heard a news preview that the port is going to start fining companies who’s containers sit in the port “too long”.
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Yikes. That will get pricey.
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Also, the backlog started slow but never cleared – just kept building and has finally attracted national attention.
I keep hoping that being next to the port will help us get some goods. But I suspect most long-haul to distribution centers before coming back again.
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I still think there’s price gouging out there. I swear at this point people will have to take second mortgages to cook Thanksgiving dinner.
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Again, a benefit to being alone! I haven’t had a TDay dinner in a few years!
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I haven’t been in a grocery store but even Amazon is showing signs of supply chain problems.
Mmmmm… breadless bread + meatless meat = loafless “meat”loaf??
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Mmm. Mmm. No.
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If you added meat to your order, your birds would be eating better than you.
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They might even veto that pork.
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I buy 1/2 hog or 1/4 beef right from a farmer. Cut out the middle man. Yes, you can probably buy just want you need.
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I do buy local meat now and then, but it’s prohibitively expensive here.
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I wouldn’t step into WalMart even if you offered to buy me anything I want there!
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I go through 50 lbs of seed a week, plus suet, nuggets and mealworms. I have to.
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Walmart and I have a hate/hate relationship that spans decades now.
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I dislike it as well, but at times it’s a necessary evil.
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