I don’t think they’re dried. That’s probably in the refrigerated section.
A birrieria is a restaurant that specializes in Birria (Mexican/Jalisco spicy goat stew). There are a few in my town, otherwise I would have never have known about it. I make a rough approximation in a crock pot using much smaller cuts of goat from the butcher.
Some of this flour is going to go to friends, for sure. Lately I feel like I’m doing an extended “ding dong ditch” - putting food and other supplies on people’s front porches and then running off before they open the door…
Yeah, it seems like some packagers aren’t even considering it, because they figure shortly after they work out all the issues and get it running, the crisis will be about over. (They may be making some unrealistic assumptions about how long this is going to go on, though.)
I’m not sure how you work around the issue of it being a completely different set of buyers, with different needs… It’s amazing how brittle the whole system is; as soon as one thing changes slightly, everything breaks rather than being able to adapt.
Of course now we have the new problem that processors are shutting down because of viral outbreaks in the factories, so there’s fewer paths for the food to get from farms to stores. There’s really no way to get around that.
Are you freaking kidding me?
I have a hard enough time finding supplies that I need in Wal-Mart and grocery stores and now I’m not going to be able to buy the supplies I need for my business at Restaurant Depot because hoarders are going to show up?
I’m tired of this crap!
The wholesale format for chicken/meat isn’t whole chickens. It’s cases of chicken parts. A waxed cardboard box, with a bag in it, full of what are effectively loose chicken thighs or breasts or whatever.
It’s not too different then what shows up at the store anyway, and they’ve got no issue just portioning and wrapping things at the store level.
The problem is more things like butter. 1lb blocks where the wrapper doesn’t have retail markings, no nutrition facts, upc or what have. Or 1tbs chips individually wrapped, and also not labeled for resale.
Some of this stuff you can just slap a label on and throw it on the shelves. But how much use is a 55 gallon barrel of pickles to the consumer? Is a grocery store gonna wanna dish that out into take out containers?
The other end of it is logistics. The producers of these products have no pre-existing relationships with these stores, neither do the wholesalers. You need to make contact, file paperwork for wholesale accounts, sales reps and buyers need to figure shit out. Trucking routes need to be redirected. And for chain supermarkets their corporate offices need to authorize the shit, down to the individual sku. Get it added to their internal inventory and POS systems and so forth.
It also means more drivers, sales reps and wholesaler staff in the supermarkets. Most of this shit has been offloaded by the supermarkets to their purveyors. No one’s doing a daily or weekly inventory and calling in orders. Whole thing relies on outside sales staff visiting each store in person.
It’s a big part of what makes supermarkets so profitable and their prices so low.
We’re all tired of it. I don’t have any suggestions how to fix it, but I do offer my sympathies.
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