Is now the best time to stock up on canned seafood?
Sockeye runs have been pretty good the past couple of years, so canned sockeye is fairly cheap in my area.
But I have a feeling this is it. And it's going to be a slow decline both in quality and volume, and in 5-10 years the fish I take for granted now is going to be extremely expensive.
I've eaten 10 year old canned fish before and it was totally fine. Should I spend a couple grand on canned fish? Am I crazy?
Posted Jan 3, 2017, 7:45 PM UTC
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preparing for the worst is never crazy
If "I can't get canned fish" is your version of the apocalypse, you probably might want to reconsider your priorities.
Not being able to get seafood is a very likely outcome of a "collapse" (this is r/collapse, isn't it?), so why not plan for it?
Unless you're planning to buy a lifetime supply of canned salmon, whichever way you choose isn't going to make a whole lot of difference.
Canned goods aren't guaranteed to last forever. I found a can of sardines at my parent's house that had been forgotten about for maybe 3 years and it was all puffed up.
I didn't open it.
Surströmming!
no, i meant that preparing is always a good thing. My version of the Apocalypse is children being lured into alleyways and eaten by cannibals, just like the siege of Leningrad.
Now, that's what I have more in mind, unfortunately and horribly.
Pizza-gate customers have pre-booked all alleyways for their own version of the apocalypse. Cannibals must endeavour to keep their prey confined to the special buses provided.
Except it won't just be canned fish, it will be a whole bunch of things.
All jokes aside, some of the early things that disappear are things that are cheap and bulky, like toilet-paper. Costly transport will be saved for stuff that's expensive and small - more of 'em in a single truck.
Of course. I found it rather odd, however, that the OP focused on canned fish, and very specifically canned sockeye salmon. I mean, if half the country is covered in fallout, people are resorting to the cannibalism of the corpses of their loved ones, and roving bands of desperate outlaws are wondering the countryside wantonly murdering, raping and pillaging WROL, the last thing that is probably going to come to my mind is, "damn. You know what? I could really go for some fish cakes tonight."
He was concentrating on sockeye because it was noticeably cheap and abundant. No doubt he would made a similar request if the item had been chicken chunks instead.
Non, no, no. The sequence must be correct. First you rape, then you pillage, and finally you murder if you feel it is necessary.
Cheap attachment bidets for the win!
In truth, I tried bidets several times. I really like them, much better than crumbly toilet paper that smears.
My friend's inlaws are hoarders. They hoard toilet paper.