Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 13, 2025

Our second son has lived in Nashville for almost 20 years. He is still amazed how quickly those items disappear when snow is predicted.

Cocoa would have been a better answer

Before it snowed I went to my neighborhood Staples for some bread, eggs, and milk. But they didn’t have any.

I make french toast about once every 10 days.

I will judge you. My judgement is that you are being very sensible.

My Mother would send me to the store with her list…wine, cheeses, grapes. We woukd have a snow party. People act like they’re going to be cooped up for days. That doesn’nt happen here. We got 4 inches of snow friday. The roads are all clear. I’ve never not been able to get out and go when I want to. 4 wheel drive helps.

Redneck Snow Day. Just add beer to the list.

There was a time when snow threatened that the rush was to blockbuster or red box to get the best movies and to stock up on popcorn.

Yes, dozens of loaves of bread and 55 gallon drum of milk.

There is a satirical web site/FB page called the French Toast Alert System (or something like that…) They predict storm intensity according to (predicted) pieces of French Toast.

Don’t forget to let the bread get a little stale but not moldy.

Make sure you have vanilla!

Where I live there are three supermarkets and goodness-knows-how-many delis within a two-block walk. And people STILL run to the store to “stock up” whenever it snows.

I always wondered why these three items flew off the shelves during weather alerts. I always thought it was because scrambled eggs and toast were an easy meal to make in the event the electricity went out and people were using propane torches or battery operated skillets to cook. Making French toast never crossed my mind. I wonder what the people in France call French toast?

“Make french toast” – is that what they’re calling it now … ?

And cold weather too!

Don’t forget the toilet paper.

Don’t forget the real maple syrup :) And put some cinnamon in that egg mix along with the vanilla mentioned above :)

’Mericans are easily panicked by events that might impact their food (or TP) supply.

What, no bananas?

Back in the day, I grew up in a suburb of a major city. It was all urban, and there was no bussing. The district did have busses for extracurriculars, but everyone walked to school by day. The district never closed for weather. We had a major blizzard in 1978, and the district remained open. They finally, reluctantly closed down when no one showed up, including teachers, and the Governor ordered all schools closed.

I’ve heard tons of “shut down for days” stories from a friend that lives outside of Dallas; they just don’t get bad weather (snow) often enough to justify all the heavy removal equipment. Up here in Minnesota, we’ll get occasional grocery ‘runs’ when they’re predicting those big, multi-day storms, but we know it’s bad when all the local news say that everyone is sold out of snowblowers and generators.

“Don’t judge us”? Arlo, you are us!

yum. :g

Get bacon and sausage to go with the French toast — oh, butter, and real maple syrup too. Make sure we have vanilla. If you want crunchy French toast get some cornflakes and pecans.

I really get into French toast.

Add a little vanilla and orange zest.

Get ready for sticker shock when you get to the eggs. $7.49 a dozen at Wally World a few days ago.

It snows on the flatlands a lot, -34c this morning, lots of eggs ($8 a flat)

It never fails, the first mention of winter weather and people here in the South think it’s the Apocalypse and there is a run on bread, milk and beer, and not necessarily in that order, at the grocery store…

Wait ’til after the 20th… the price of eggs will drop.

/s

Just a small crack in the 4th wall today.

I thought it was toilet paper.

This seems like a rerun?

I have a meme that I post every time snow is in the forecast that is an Old Masters style painting of eggs, milk, bread and roll of toilet paper that’s titled “Snow Predicted”. It’s my favorite by far.

We like oatmeal and coffee when we get snowed in.

He’s breaking the third wall- first time for Arlo? Maybe not, but I can’t recall him doing it before.

In FL the bread is for sandwiches, milk to drink and I never buy eggs if we may not have any way to cook them. During hurricanes we expect to lose power, so we buy supplies for that, ice and things we can eat cold. Before the last storm, for some odd reason toilet paper was empty in the stores. That is not something we need extra of, but people stock up on that now. I’ve lived in FL over 40 years and never needed bottled water after a storm, but the bottled water is always sold out.

Flour, sugar, bacon, sausage, salami, maple syrup, Clif Bars, and other stuff. We have a list in the pantry and keep it stocked and we rotate the older stuff out (we use it) Lived up here almost 10 years and had maybe three days when we just decided not to go out. It gets cold and wet and sometimes it snows, but it does not accumulate enough to cause problems.

That’s been my joke for years.

Here in Wisconsin our stocking up consists of 2-3 days worth of food & 2-3 cases of beer!

My wife has learned to make one-egg omelets with a little powdered milk added in. Add a couple of sausages (we’re trying out some chicken sausages from Costco that are OK — different texture than pork) add toast or bagel and it makes a satisfying breakfast, looking out at snow still on the ground. I like orange marmalade (Kroger stores have a good product almost $2 cheaper than Smuckers) or peanut butter mixed with honey. Good to warm the insides with a tasty breakfast.

I live in Houston where one snowflake can shut the schools down for days. They can also empty every grocery store in minutes.

Don’t forget the syrup……

4th wall be damed (yea I know its spelled wrong. -censors were offended)

According to the “experts”, strawberry Pop Tarts are right up there for shelf clearing storm purchases.

Emergency supply – Peanut butter. Needs no refrigeration. Needs no cooking. Keeps for a LONG time. Can it eat it on bread. Can eat it from the jar. Can eat it on crackers. Can eat it on vegetables such as celery or carrots. Can eat it – etc.

And a peanut butter sandwich is considered one of the most healthy meals there is.