There is a few days food supply in the system. Just in time deliveries have replaced warehouses in the US and Europe. When we food manufacture workers go off sick there WILL be shortages and price rises.
This is a time capsule now. I’m a delivery driver for asda and I remember the weeks leading up to lockdown seeing all the empty shelves and delivering stock piles of tins and dry goods to customers with them saying “I bet it’s empty there” and I always thought “yeah cause you’re snatching it all up before the store opens”.
@@stablish4314 - I know several people who work in the large stores, who have said how much they enjoyed refusing to refund hoarders. They came back in droves when it calmed down, thinking that they'd get their money back, often with multiple trolleys full, and were not happy when told that it was an extraordinary occurrence, and they could not risk that the virus might be present on the returned items, which, as a result, would have to be destroyed. I know some places took things, but a great many did not.
@@stablish4314 mainly down to the government giving no advice,the wrong advice and not showing any leadership at a time of crisis. Stay at home,exercise once a day,wear a mask,leave all your windows open for air,stay at home,no cycling, get fresh air,wear a mask,but you MUST stay at home!!
Here in the u.s. near the end of the summer of 2020 people tried to return all the toilet paper they hoarded. Stores straight up denied them. The videos are glorious.
That's hilarious. I work in a grocery store in Canada, never saw any attempts to return the TP though. My store is in a rich area where people have large houses, so people probably just stored it all away in some unused closet. It doesn't go bad, after all. ...Come to think of it, that's probably why we've had a surplus for months now. Our upper storage shelves in the back are full of TP next to all the seasonal decorations.
@Jennifer Lastra its easy to know what would happen when the virus got out of china.. i was already watching the horrors of what was happening in china and stocked up on everything back in january.. while people were relaxing and saying its just a flu or it wont get out of china.. i did all the preparations beforehand.. since its just a flu no one would act until it got out of control and then people would start to panic.
As someone who’s worked on a farm, my god yes about the loose produce. It’s grown like that, it’s shipped like that, what does it matter if it’s in a container or not? I bet you your sweet little hearts that those wrapped up mushrooms weren’t washed and they have the harvester’s germs all over them.
"These onions grow in literal, ACTUAL dirt!" I absolutely love blunt british humour. I am a brit myself and I completely agree with the statements about single use plastics!
Some people are WAY too squeamish about dirt. When we had vegetables growing in our garden, I would often pull up young carrots, brush the soil off with my hand, and eat the carrots, whilst I did something else. I ate peas fresh out of their pods, as well as broad beans, and snapped off, and ate raw broccolli florets. Dug up and ate radishes, too. Was never ill. The last time I had cause to visit the doctor, was in 2010. A lot of people today have never played outside, climbed trees, swum in rivers or the sea, etc., and as such have a far weaker immune system. If I have a cold, it lasts 3-4 days at most. A cut will be completely healed in 5-7 days. In the last five years, I've had three days off work, and not consecutively, either. A bit of dirt won't kill you. Well, it won't kill me.
@@brianartillery You're partly right. Dirt isn't something to worry about. But I'd hardly eat a carrot right from the ground. I'd rinse it first. It's not uncommon, though, for a cut to heal that quickly. I also doubt so many people have never swum in the sea or played outside. I'm British, so that could be why, since at the schools I've been to there's been large playing fields with trees and bushes about, and the beaches I frequent will be packed full of people, which is why I head there earlier in the day.
@@dragonick2947 in america i know too many people have never been to the beach in my town and they say "ItS NoT A BeaCh ItS a WaTerFrONt PropErTy" like it makes a fucking difference.
@@dragonick2947 - I'm British, too. I've worked with younger people who have had cuts, that have not fully healed after 14 days or so. We never used chemicals in our garden, so I had no fears about eating things straight out of the ground - I have, in the past, dug up Pignuts (Conopodium majus), which are little radish-like tubers, and eaten them as a snack whilst walking. Never had amy problems.
It's really weird to watch this a year later and remember all the panic buying. I had to get creative with a few meals. Bread sold out and I had to make bread for a few months. I got very good at it. Now I always maintain a 2-week pantry. I never did before. I wonder how many habits over the last year will stick with this generation, like how other major events caused a quirk of habit with generations before us.
In Germany I could not even get yeast or flour. Everything wiped out from the shelves. Pasta, flour, yeast, tins of food, toilet paper.....all gone....you would think a war has broken out.
a year ago i was thinking the same way - for example, i had a prediction that strict mask wearing rules will stick to society forever, but go outside now and tell me how right i was. i personally dont see any cooking/buying habits sticking to the generation after the pandemic right now, mid-2022
I grew up keeping my pantry stocked. At any time I could live off my reserves for months. I may not be happy towards the end with little fresh foods, but I'd be fine. When I got covid, I had plenty of tissues, meds, food, soap and detergent to self isolate. I grew up bottling foods, stocking freezers and dry goods, and buying sales on personal products. It's just how I live.
all those people commenting on lack of plastic gloves when handling produce: where are you from if that's normal to you? Most people in my area in Canada wash their veggies+fruits before eating anyways and I've never seen anyone in my life use plastic gloves to handle produce.
In Australia, I have seen exactly one store with plastic gloves over fifteen years ago, if you're practicing proper food hygiene they're a useless commodity.
In Spain they encourage you to use plastic gloves when handling produce. I never use them nor have I been scolded by anyone for not doing it. Honestly most people I see just grab their onions and tomatoes with their bare hands.
Never seen anyone use plastic gloves in the US. We may invert produce bags and pull produce into them if we're being particularly cleanly, but most people just grab stuff.
I saw someone freaking out that there was a little spider on their strawberries once, forgetting that, shock horror, plants grow outside, among creepies and crawlies. Some people are so sheltered these days 🙄
@@bxstar5276 its made for disabled people who, for example, don't have great motor skills & can't chop vegetables well. but I understand your point that most people are well-able to chop broccoli instead of buying it pre-cut
Depends on the spider. If I recognise it as a local spider I would just flick it off my strawberry since I know that we don't have venomous spiders. I'm not so sure about spiders I don't recognise that have been imported along with the fruit.
As a fellow British person I legitimately had no idea people who get so crazy about the loose vegetables. Like this is normal for us, and you guys are soooo over thinking it!
Loose vegetables/fruit are the norm here in the US. Had no idea anybody would have a problem with that! You're supposed to wash produce when you get it home anyway...
To personally pick the produce to your preference or what you will use it for is preferable. To me at least. Meaning, big or small potatoes, (to boil or fry) peppers (to fry it whole or dice and use in dishes, or stuff them) or watermelon, thick or thin carrots (to grate or not to grate), green or yellow bananas etcetera..... I even buy onions in two sizes. Bigger and smaller. Half onion in refrigerator is a mess, though sometimes inevitable even with size appropriate use. Am a bit lazy to buy all onions small size.
i think a lot of it is people panic buying because people are panic buying, less about the fear of the coronavirus and more about the fear of not being able to buy toilet paper because everyone else is buying it because they fear that people are buying it
That be the problem with panic-everything, the self-reenforcedness of it all: Panic that the panicked state of others will hurt you even if their source of panic doesn't.
@2manynegativewaves Every 2 or 3 months we way a pack of 36 loo rolls. At the moment we're half way the pack. So we still have for about four weeks. In two or three weeks I'll have a look what the situation is. At this moment (March 15th, but last shopping on March 12th) some items are sold out in Slovakia, mainly in the shops in smaller villages.
Same here, except that I live in Germany and it works the same way here with the shopping carts. It's interesting to see someone having to explain something that's so common and a basic part of daily life.
@@83uwb Same in the Netherlands, I guess I took it for granted that things worked like that everywhere lol. Have seen it in other countries so just assumed it was a universal thing :P
Yup. That was the best. Luckily, I have two very good greengrocers' shops within walking distance of my house. Lots of lovely loose produce in both. Better quality than supermarket stuff, and you can buy as much, or as little as you want. And it's put in crisp brown paper bags, too.
I like how calm you are about it, this is how people should be acting. This panicking is just whipping people into a frenzy and those people scare me. I'd rather take the calm approach as well.
I am definitely more worried about the not calm people than I am about the virus . Kinda think that the not calm people would happily beat me to death for a toilet roll , virus saying .. Probably I won't kill you 😶🤔👋
I always go back and watch your ‘older’ videos whenever I need some comfort, as weird as that sounds there’s something relaxing and safe feeling about your videos, maybe it’s your voice. But this was was a shocker, it’s amazing how quickly you forget about things, this was only a few years ago and now we are back to normal you forget how bad things did get. It’s great that you’ve made this video as a kind of diary entry of the beginnings of the pandemic. You deserve every success that comes your way through these videos, to some you’re just a bloke that makes videos on UA-cam, but to some of us you’re like a friend. Thank you Mike.
Seriously. It's scarier thinking I might not be able to eat or have basic toiletries because of these crazies. It's what basically amounts to a bad flu virus, not a zombie apocalypse, people.
@@juanchuang5978 Look up what a corona virus actually is. It's the same family as cold and flu. And people do panic over the flu every year thanks to the media. Plus any flu strain with a slightly different behavior. Remember bird flu and swine flu? They behaved like a more aggressive flu strain but people acted like the world was ending then, too.
juan chuang which is why the countries are on lockdown which helps stop the spread of a super infectious illness plus it does affect old people and it would be sad if a bunch of old people passed away cause the country didn't lockdown
Sugar we have plenty. But there's no flour anymore and no yeast (but why wife just told me that there's now a bakery selling yeast), soap's very limited too. And in some stores toothpaste is gone. Well, and it didn't really help one week that pasta was on sale, so the shelves where really completly empty. But ever since the stores limited the amount you could buy it has gotten better (except for the toilet paper, that is).
Absolutely loved your rant about touching loose produce. People can sometimes lose sight of simple facts (food is grown in dirt!), and what's important (single-use plastics are helping to kill the planet). I really appreciate your calm, smart style. So glad I happened upon your channel!
The actual problem isn’t plastic. It’s oil. Plastic is byproduct of oil refining. Stop flying for vacations. Stay on your side of the world. Drive only when necessary. Move closer to work. Everybody needs to do their part for our children and following generations.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 No plastic is also a big problem as long Biodegration means it either needs to be burnt which creates toxic fumes or stored (dumped) which mean it'll for sure end up in the ocean.
It's so ridiculous that anyone was even upset about it or expected him to wear gloves. I've never seen anyone wearing gloves to touch onions before, and do they not realise that the field workers and the staff at the supermarket would also be touching the veggies when they're restocking? Sometimes they might wear gloves but they'd be work gloves probably with soil on them. I think some people are massively disconnected from the realities of food.
A last minute prepper probably emptied it. I prepped more silently, in a way that would leave them time to restock before the rest of the people went crazy, I did it in January.
You tell me? I sprained my leg 2 weeks ago and because I live in an apartment with no elevators and I cannot take the stairs with my leg like this, I have been pretty much stuck in my flat and have to order my groceries. Which sucks when people are panic stockpiling...
There's a lot of items priced like that. But our stores aren't afraid to price an item as a whole number. Its very common. Our pricetag also actually reflects the price you pay at the cashier unlike our American counterparts
@@darkelemental In finland only lidl prices items as whole numbers. Stores really love to treat customers like easily tricked little babies. The best part is since we don’t use 1 cent coins 3,99€ actually is literally 4€, you’re not even saving a the cent lmao
@@TainaElisabeth that's strange. As a country we all collectively see 1.99 and actually know it as 2 because the penny doesn't matter to us. It holds no actual real value like it used to so stores have probably realised that we don't care about the penny difference over the last 10 years or so and it saves them time at the checkout counting change. Strangely aldi and lidl are some of the few stores here that insist on using the .99 for everything
I'm 69 & was taught that the reason for non whole number prices was to avoid theft by staff. If you have to give change you have to ring the transaction on the till, if you don't have to give change you can pocket the cash. Nowadays that's less necessary.
The medicine aisle brings back memories. I inject prescription medication 3 times a week for MS and need to take 2 paracetamol beforehand to avoid being in pain all night afterwards. Seeing the whole shelf of paracetamol disappear was pretty stressful
this is why the government needs to be careful with talking to their citizens, most people are easy to scare and will go into frenzy’s like this because of television.
Do you have food for least two weeks? If not go buy. As those "panic buyers" did. This "panic buy" was not a mistake. Mistake was that they had to do it. You should always have enough food for least two weeks.
LillyCookies DDAENG no it’s not the TV’s fault, it’s cos people are fucking stupid. 2 grams or common sense is all that’s needed to realise everything will be fine
@@alexanderkasson106 Sanitizer wipes and masks. Even toilet paper. - as stations and convenience stores buy it up from the larger stores hoping the less mobile will be buying it up at their increased prices. My local paint supply stores had to take masks off the shelf because people are over buying for themselves and resale, it leaves none for workers.
Everyones trying to make a buck off the crowded spaces where getting these things is less convenient. People are quick to open their wallets for ease of purchasing these things, and lots of folks are capitalizing. Where I'm located, people normally buy things, like fruit, & things we have a surplus of, even criminals moving drugs for profit. They make the few hour drive to the big cities and double or triple their money. ( I make wine and pick a lot of fruit, always competing with city-resellers. ) But thats just business 101
Wait, people get squicked out by you handling produce? Dear god, how do they think it ends up in the bin to buy it? Like, have you guys ever seen a bathroom out in the middle of the farmer's field? Exactly, so how do you think the workers relieve themselves? That's right. Never mind the deer and rabbit and whatever comes to eat the deer and rabbit, Plenty of workers use tobacco, but smoking takes too much time so they'll have a chaw in. Oh, and don't think combine harvesters are going to save you in terms of hygiene, those things will mangle and grind up the field creatures and place their corpses right along side the crop to be sorted out. So, enjoy your tobacco spit, poo and animal guts covered vegetables if you don't wash them! You probably got more dirt on you from handing the vegetable than the vegetable got from being handled. Wash your dang vegetables.
I think the silly people protesting are all fourteen-year-olds who don't cook or shop, don't understand basic hygiene, and don't know that fruit and veg need to be washed and sometimes peeled. They wouldn't have a clue that you could take an onion home without touching it, and find that it has neck rot. "...get squicked out..." I've never heard that before! See, YT can be educational! :)
it's genuinely baffling to me, i have clinically diagnosed OCD, generally triggered by dirt and the like and it doesn't bug me because you are just supposed to wash veg and the like. i really have to wonder what those folks are thinking when complaining about picking up the produce to check it, like do they just buy any piece of veg they touch and eat it without washing? cause to my mind that's way more gross.
I'm here a year after this was first posted. I'm Immune Compromised, and nope. Plain Washing won't protect you from food born illness. In the US, produce is washed and cleaned before being shipped to grocery stores. Before the C19, lysteria was the last big outbreak of food born illness- on lettuces. The Contamination happened in transit. The only thing that would kill lysteria was heat or a chemical sanitizer... that isn't edible. I considered vodka to sanitize produce, but it doesn't have a high enough alcohol content. It takes 150 proof, no dilation at all, alcohol to kill lysteria. Even if the produce is not contaminated with the big bad bugs, I'm sill vulnerable to ALL of them. I decided to not eat raw food any more. doh, I forgot to add: I don't begrudge anyone eating all the produce you need. For those of us with broken immune systems, we have to think differently.
I worked in a mid-size Co-Op supermarket all through covid, and I distinctly remember returning from two weeks of annual leave on Sunday 15th March 2020 to ABSOLUTE CHAOS. Obviously we opened at 10am, but did the whole "Doors open at 9:30 for browsing" thing that has since disappeared. When we opened the doors at 9:30 there was a huge queue of people snaking round the corner outside, and they all barrelled in with their trollies, loading them up with massive amounts of loo roll and pasta and other stuff, and then by 10am when we could actually open the tills there were huge queues down almost every aisle. This went on and got worse. I think people must have been tracking delivery vans on facebook groups or something because there were occasions where our delivery was only just backing into the yard when people came piling through the doors demanding the toilet rolls. They wanted it straight off the lorry. I remember one guy shouting at me that he had driven 30 miles to our shop just for toilet rolls. Then when we put blanket limits of two per item across everything in the store, I remember a woman kicking off that I wouldn't let her buy 20 bottles of wine - she said "But I NEED them, because I have to self isolate for two weeks!" If you're supposed to be self isolating due to exposure WHY ARE YOU HERE???? also, wine? That's your must have item??? That whole time was an absolute nightmare. I'm so glad I no longer work in a supermarket!
I know this is a while ago now, but I wonder how many people complaining about the touching and putting down of food, were not for reasons of bacteria spread, but for risk of spreading covid. You're unlikely to find covid on your onion when you pull it out of the ground. I do think it is wise to minimise what you touch, but don't buy, even if you say you have washed your hands. It's pretty hard not to touch your face at all until you get home again. Other than that reason, I'm fine with loose veg being touched.
@@artyomsherwin648 I'm American and I've never in my life seen plastic gloves for handling the produce. The idea was completely shocking to me when I saw the video actually.
They do the plastic thing in Europe. Italy are quite serious about it up north, old people will complain at you if they see you touching without gloves, even things like oranges 🙄
Old lady here ! I remember the bread panic , the tea panic and the bizzare salt panic ( think that one was around 1974 ) ! Salt 😶 A neighbor actually bought about 50 packs of Saxa Salt . Probably still has most of them to this day .
A quick Google search did not help me and this was before my time, but I am very curious. Please could you tell me, why, oh why oh why was there a salt panic?
@@Dthenn l have absolutely no idea what triggered the Salt Panic . This occurred in Scotland UK , don't know if it affected the rest of the UK . Scottish folks tend to like a fair bit of salt on their food , well we certainly did back then . I don't what the trigger was . We also had the coffee panic buy which did worry my German mother , but family in Germany posted us packages of coffee beans , so she survived that one . We also had The Winter of Discontent !! Loads of people went on strike , no rubbish collection , electricity cut off , dockers refusing to unload food supplies ! Fun times 😶👋
@MsSunhappy Check out The Winter of Discontent . Loads of people went on strike in the UK . Brought down the Government . Due to the power workers going on strike ( amongst many others ) our electricity kept being cut off . Guess what panic that caused ? Yep ! The great panic buying of candles ! To this day I always have a wee emergency supply of candles .
@MsSunhappy I believe it's called the Herd Instinct . You aren't panicking , then you see other people panicking , that triggers a panic response in yourself . As individuals we can act independently , once part of a group / mob , we can't usually do that . Fish and other wildlife use the same methods to escape danger , shoals , herds . Ever wondered why penguins hang about in groups waiting for one penguin to enter the water ? Or indeed kick one of their number in ? It's pretty freaky reason 😶
I've been bulk buying toilet paper for years, all my mates always thought it was hilarious I'd have a stack of about 100 rolls or so next to the loo. Suddenly they can't buy any and don't think the idea is quite as funny any more. (It's *MUCH* cheaper to buy in bulk vs a few rolls at a time)
I never understood the hoarding (and bulk buying ISN'T hoarding) of toilet rolls. None of the C-19 symptoms were excessive loose bowel movements, were they? Or were people terrified that they might cough so hard, they'd crap themselves? Don't recall seeing either symptom on the WHO website. Wait... I know what it is... a huge amount of people today are just arseholes. That's it.
I just watched this man go shopping for like five minutes and I was oddly very entertained, it’s amazing the funny things that people buy when they panic
But seriously. Why is everyone stocking up on TP? Do they plan on shitting themselves every 5 minutes? If things get so bad that shops can't restock TP, then you'll have more important things to worry about
@@Intrspace maybe they're are making improvised masks with them? because otherwise it makes zero sense, ok let's assume its for toilet use of course, other use i think they'd be using them is to wipe hand after apply hand sanitizer but there are sanitized special papers for that isnt it?? but its tp itself is not that clear because if you destroy the packaging it immediately get expose to air temp, worst ppl bags in which they are carry them might even more dirty hence making the tp useless if thats what they are looking for in the first place. so if thats the reason why there are stocking up to do these things or to be absolutely germ free, why don't they straight up buy, like i said, hand sanitized papers, or these wipes soaked in javel or something. where i live the price of tp is going up too, its insane! i really dont get it. ahaha
@@gary_05 The Toilet paper stockpiling panic started in Australia because they get the raw materials for making the paper & the cardboard tubes from China, & due to all the lock downs in China the supply chain was drying up. But in the UK our raw materials are homegrown or come from Scandinavia, so it's more of a case or panic fuels more panic!
@@NOWThatsRichy it is still so ridiculous, even though they stopped production over there, and i dont think its something that's gonna happen in every industrial locations in china where TP are made, even though hypothetically speaking if that happens somehow, and productions are not solely from there anyway, but it more probable that this virus will likely die down long before there are shortages in TP.
I wasn’t panicking until i went to the store and saw how people are panicking. I watched this video after feeling shook by my supermarket trip and your relaxed attitude towards the whole thing is really comforting to see. Thank you!
I haven't been to the store in a while now, I wonder how things are right now where I live... I don't think there's been that much panic in Finland yet, except for this year's high school graduates who are shitting their pants because they had their finals pushed into one week and their graduation is at risk of getting postponed by an entire year at worst if they fail a subject due to not having enough time to study or if they get sick and can't attend and the subject they fail doesn't have a retry next fall. I'm glad I graduated high school almost 5 years ago, didn't need to deal with this crap, only had a scare of some stomach bug that's like a yearly thing, but with that disease our instructions were literally "it doesn't matter if you have it you're gonna attend and we'll have mattresses if you have to lie down and we'll give you a bucket to puke in"...
Same here in the states. Started to worry how I'm gonna feed my family when everyone is buying all the rice, pasta, etc. but the man makes a good point. How the hell is there a food shortage when there is an entire isle of chocolate eggs? It was a nice slap to the face to make me get ahold of myself.
I just laugh when I see it, and ridicule people who are so obviously panic buying, why do you need to buy 48 rolls of toilet paper?? Are you having a family gathering and all of you have IBS or some shit
@@kamerons2895 I mean if it's a pack of 48 it's just smart since generally speaking the more rolls per package = smaller price per roll. I live together with my boyfriend and we always buy a 32 pack which is the largest package we can find and it's cheaper than buying four 8 roll packs. But if it's 48 rolls in smaller packages, yeah it's panic shopping
And about a week after this there was a noticeable rise in tossed food, apparently bulk buying perishables was also a thing. Honestly mind blowing how people instantly cease all brain activity whenever something happens
When I saw this video a few months ago at the beginning of lockdown it really reassured me. I’m not a big panicker by any means, but all the scaremongering and the stuff I kept seeing online (despite trying to actively avoid it) was starting to get to me, especially because I live alone. When you said the part about the chocolate eggs I felt completely reassured, and rewatching this video has reminded me of how much it helped me. I just want to say thank you 😊
Buy up all of those cream eggs. Then when everyone is hunkered down living on basics, you can roam the streets swapping yummy cream eggs for toilet rolls!
@@techosarusrex Now they said this is a possibility won't people hoard more? Certainly put people off spending anything I'm really hoping its not six months
@ricky gore Well some people do panic buy. Stocking up on several of the same items in their carts. I saw someone buy like 4 gallons of milk, and 4 large containers of cottage cheese the other day. Like, how are you supposed to eat or drink all of that dairy before it expires? And why so much dairy? It'd make more sense to buy powdered milk. And it was just an old couple shopping too. But I do understand what you mean, and that it isn't just because of panic shopping.
@@usernameisunavailable8270 its because people don't want to be out in public during this pandemic especially old people, and cheese can go in the freezer, milk too.
Saw someone has already done a psychological study on it. Apparent people buy toilet paper for comfort because it is a large product and doesn’t spoil so makes people feel they are prepared.
I remember going to my tesco and seeing no pasta or rice left, and so the two-three weeks after lockdown I was out of a job that guaranteed me atleast a free meal, and no food in my cupboard, I honestly ate a sngle serving bowl of porridge oats with no sugar, the really shit 90p bag of frozen sausages that were 50% wheat, tesco brand mustard for dinner, bread was optional depending on if any were left on the days I went, no flour meant I couldn't make my own either... The people who panic bought everything leaving the poor/lower class/students with nothing should be ashamed of themselves. I initially lost almost about 6 KG, then gained about 20 during the span of lockdown, though the gain was also because I decided to sit down and write a novel, and learn Chinese, not just because I was eating whatever shit food was left at Tesco.
i really like your videos. what you aim to say , what you try to show is always so positive, smart, considerate.. it makes one feel well and comfortable and hopeful. thank you for all you do.oh and i love your food challenges, you truly do give hope and inject creativity to many people which might be struggling. very beautiful from you.
@@Daniela-pr7rz That's why it's important to wash her blood of your knife before using it to cut up the toilet paper you're eating for lunch. Rookie mistake.
Slovaks are cool people. I had an exchange student from Slovakia and I miss that boy so much! He was so smart and funny. I have to go visit him one of these days.
@@skeptigal8899 I stayed for 2 weeks in Slovakia a few years ago, beautiful country and beautiful people. Honestly I still get random cravings for Bryndzové halušky and even though I've made attempts at my own version of it I don't think it compares truly to how the Slovaks make it. Going back for more some day!
I went shopping during the start of lockdown and people were pushing, getting in each other's faces. People brought all of their kids along too, so they gathered in large groups. Then some idiot yelled at me for buying a loose pepper.
What’s worse is how their panicking and hoarding result in me having to react similarly; my dog is diabetic (amongst other things) and has a specific diet of certain foods, those foods are now almost always out of stock, resulting in me now having to hoard those foods when I can so my dog can live. Forced to hoard because they are!
I feel like this is the same for both humans and pets with restrictive diets. For all the urging in the UK to be 'considerate' its a joke and some of the more vulnerable are suffering.
Ahhh... The taste of a true Apocalypse: Spaghetti sauce and Hot Dogs. Such weird stuff to buy, makes it rather obvious that most people out there have absolutely no clue about cooking... By the way, the Austrian government is handling this situation surprisingly well, they're avoiding panic and inform the people properly. For once we're doing something sensible!
I mean the UK government are trying. It is the media mostly that are making people scared. The advice is not to panic buy or do anything unordinary at all.
I mean the spread there is crazy tho, they kinda normalized having it i think because everyone is coughing but no one is getting tested. They say "it's just a cold mate"
Just subscribed after watching a few of your other videos. You seem like a lovely, genuinely nice person. On another note, I haven't been out (in public places) for about 3 weeks now, so it was nice to see how it's going for other countries and not just my own.
The sad thing is all the food that will be thrown away by the people who don’t actually know how to cook but have bought ingredients Well said about the veg by the way. When I was young I was sent round to the greengrocer with a bag and he just poured all the veg in together loose.
Yeah in Australia people were trying to return the stuff they panic bought, as they either can’t afford the ridiculous amount they bought or felt bad. We now can’t return most things..
@@andymorgan6644 I don't think most people are worried particularly about atomic shrimp's hands, but about the coughs and sneezes on people's hands generally, and those people getting those on the veggies. People are gross, you might be surprised to find out how many don't even wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Forget the sneezes even, you can get Covid-19 from literal human fecal matter put there by thoughtless people going through the veggies. Covid-19 also doesn't wash off super well with only water, but you shouldn't wash veggies with soap or alcohol, so if it did get on them, you're kinda screwed. Once we have a vaccine and most people are vaccinated, it won't be such a big deal, but for now I think some worry is warranted.
OMG. i work in a lidl. and this person came to my till. have 30 bags of pasta, 3 entire cases of tuna (you get about 50 in a case), about 20 bags of self raising and plain flour each. and aload of other stuff. only for their damn card to get declined. had to put all the stuff back.
Oh dear, what a shame......tee bloomin' hee. That's so funny!! I wonder if they were shopping for another store and were hoping to sell it all for a fat profit!?! Sorry you had to put it all back though!
It's a reference to the French Revolution when the queen who lived far away from France got informed of the starvation and she said "There is no bread, then let them eat cake"
God I’m an idiot, I thought it was a joke about Jesus and Easter, because he multiplied the bread, and when he died and couldn’t multiply bread, Easter happened
LIDL have done a good job...perhaps the greed only applies to ASDA...Sainsbury's good as WELL but they get alot of abuse from customers ASDA need to take that advert down implying only pensioners and vulnerable can shop between 6-9am ...if they don't intend implementing it take it down..their not looking too good at the moment. "Tills 1-8 for pensioners only please'..that was an announcement at 7am when their were only supposed to be them in at that time..when asked why the store is full up with people under that age with full trolleys they answered.. well we did open at 6am..it was 7am when asked
As a Canadian I love hearing the stories CBC have been putting out about the people "Stuck abroad at the vacation destination" when those people ha e also planned those trips "two or three months ago"
This is a week later and things have gotten much worse he could still find frozen stuff we can’t now because all the refrigerators are all empty thanks to the panic buying some peoples homes must look like the hoarder next doors which is a program on TV where some people’s homes are so packed with junk they can hardly get though their front door and they end up not even knowing what they’ve got and they’re trampling all over their junk and much of it gets broken! But as for these panic buyer much of their stuff will finally end up in the dustbin because it’ll end up rancid or out of date before they get around to eating it! And the crying shame of it is Someone else could of had that food that’s going to be chucked out!!!
13:48 When a branch loaded with pears broke from a tree in my garden, I took the whole thing to the school I worked in for the children to 'pick' their own fruit. One lad was horrified that this was unhygienic because bugs might have crawled on them; he actually thought plastic-bagged fruit was safer than my fresh, ripe, pesticide-free beauties!
There's an entire industry that made sure people preferred bagged food instead of natural ones that grow in gardens around the house. I believe that all of those extra hyper super precautions they tell you to take when canning food are designed to make it look like it's too much bother to do it yourself at home, give up and buy canned food from the supermarkets.
We have those "squash" drinks in Sweden too! There are essentially two variations, one that's closer to the sugary store bought fruit juices/sodas and one that's closer to home made fruit drinks. We call both of them "lättdryck", lit. light drink, because they are usually sold in 2 dl tetras and then you add water at home, so they are lighter to carry than the already prepared drinks.
Something about watching a guy walk down the refrigerated meat aisle while the typical supermarket beeping goes on in the background, it gives me goosebumps.
I've been watching grocery hauls for years. Just the right balance of unnecessary yet interesting information to keep my mind from drifting off while being relaxed;)
Wow! All that plastic wrapped veg is insane! In Canada (Alberta, anyway), most of the veg is loose, like the onions. I wasn't shocked by you handling produce, I was shocked by how much of the produce was prepackaged! Good on the UK for committing to get rid of some of that packaging. We just wash our veggies when we get home. Cool water and vinegar help kill mold spores, too, so your produce lasts longer.
That swing on the tin hotdog just made me laugh. Your comment on 'look at the swing on that hotdog ... you just have to admire that" ... just made me laugh, Thank you, sir.
If they would stop panic buying there would be enough for everyone. I have to go shopping tomorrow and I dread finding what you found, empty shelves. We are a retired couple so don't really need a lot, just a little will do us.
I went shopping a few hours ago and absolutely nothing was out of stock except the premade single-serving salad bowls. Plenty of bread, plenty of tuna, plenty of canned everything, and more rice than you could shake a stick at. It largely depends on the store you're going to. I wager large warehouse stores like Food 4 Less or Costco are going to be picked over, but my local Albertsons affiliate was just fine.
90 seconds water? What about soap? My arse is a complete twat and gives me nothing but problems. Even still, when I was my bum, I use water and shower gel. I think some religious people wipe with water and hand but I just think that’s very unhygienic
@@rosiefay7283 It would be sensible to act like the black death had arrived? I highly doubt it. Yes this pandemic is bad and everyone needs to take precautions, but panic will just make things worse. Let me remind you that the chance of dying if you got the black death was above 90% while for the cornavirus its less than 5%. Yes 5% is a big deal and many people will/have died and we should all be doing what we can to stop the spread, but 5% is very different to 90%. If there was a pandemic of the black death MANY more people would die and I really don't think instilling the panic/hysteria that would come with an event like that into this is a good idea. As I've said what we need in times like this is a level head - not panic. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you said, but it did seem like you were insinuating this.
TheUnluckyThirteen The reason it was so deadly was because they didn’t have modern healthcare then... or modern hygiene practices. So it wouldn’t actually be too outlandish to say that the plague has arrived. We’re just more equipped to deal with it now.
@@TainaElisabeth I'm sorry, but I'd have to disagree. For one thing our modern hygiene wouldn't affect the death rate of an illness, just a person's chance of catching the illness in the first place and so wouldn't change the deadliness of the black death - it would still have a 90% chance of killing you once you caught it. As for our new medical advancements, yes they will probably have some affect, but it isn't as if they are going to make a disease like the black death suddenly have a much lower mortality rate. Look at it this way: without medical assistance of any kind children get mild to no symptoms when they catch the corona virus and the only children to die from it have had underlying medical problems. The same goes for younger adults in most cases, except for the few unlucky ones who get really ill and have to go to hospital, but that is a small percentage. Now think of the black death. Without any medical help children (or people of any age) died in a matter of days over 90% of the time. You can't say coronavirus is as deadly/bad as the black death when without any medical attention at all younger healthy people aren't severly affected by coronavirus, but those same types of young, healthy individuals had a 90% chance of dying if they caught the black death. Also, don't try the vaccines card. Vaccines are specific to the illness they were created for and so whatever vaccines people have wont help them when it comes to coronavirus as there isn't a coronavirus vaccine yet. This means vaccines wont make a difference to whether coronavirus is as deadly as the black death or not. Which it most definately isn't.
Lol I'm American too and a lot of the subtitles were interesting and insightful lol. I didn't know they sell eggs unrefrigerated there, very interesting. Come to think of it, why don't they do that here?
@@i.dont.read.replies There is a video explaining the different mindsets of having unrefrigerated eggs to refrigerated eggs. They do look and taste different but for me, I like the US eggs over British ones. I think it's a matter of what you grew up eating.
@@i.dont.read.replies it's the way the eggs are processed here in the states- they're pre-washed, which removes the protective bloom layer (natural vacuum seal.) Eggs aren't (edit: commonly) prewashed in Europe, they're just given a dusting to remove stray feathers and are made sure there isn't too much poo ;) keeping the natural anti-bacterial layer intact.
Hey, i live in hungary and i really like your videos. To be honest i was really surprised that there was no big difference between the hungarian Tesco and the British one (you guys have a bigger selection of cereals :D ) and here the price of anything that has mildly longer shelf life than a couple of days has went up an insane amount.. it just doesn't even make sense. By the way on your videos, they are really good and very entertaining. And i really hope you get more viewers and subscribers because you definetly deserve it. With love, from Hungary Yours sincerely Richard
Loved the explanation of the trolleys. Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes: "I tried one of these new discount supermarkets today. They were selling shopping trolleys for a pound. Brilliant!"
I told my kid I scored a rarity. I got some tp today. An employee tried to hand me something bigger & I said thx but I'm not that crazy. I hope she didn't take it the wrong way. Also, yw next person.
There's no shortage of food. There's an excess of stupidity.
Where is it stored then?
IrishBoer At least around here, all stores are getting regular shipments. Many are getting extra shipments. Panickers are over-buying.
There is a few days food supply in the system. Just in time deliveries have replaced warehouses in the US and Europe. When we food manufacture workers go off sick there WILL be shortages and price rises.
Supermarket owners have already ordered their new Rolls Royce's.
Fun fact most stupid people eat high carb/sugar and wonder why they're fat :p
I bet half the people who panic buy flour don't know how to bake
I bet they have internet and in case of need they learn easily how to do it.
I was thinking of buying a few kilos of flour and i have never baked in my life, i think i should learn to make bread now, incase society collapses
Some stores have received no new flour for ages so maybe it's been stockpiled by the gov?
@@eddard9442 better yet learn how to grow wheat and make flour yourself first
@@DragOzze maybe one day when i buy land, if i can.
This is a time capsule now. I’m a delivery driver for asda and I remember the weeks leading up to lockdown seeing all the empty shelves and delivering stock piles of tins and dry goods to customers with them saying “I bet it’s empty there” and I always thought “yeah cause you’re snatching it all up before the store opens”.
It was madness, and showed me that a lot of people, live in way too much fear... pretty selfish behaviour as well.
@@stablish4314 - I know several people who work in the large stores, who have said how much they enjoyed refusing to refund hoarders. They came back in droves when it calmed down, thinking that they'd get their money back, often with multiple trolleys full, and were not happy when told that it was an extraordinary occurrence, and they could not risk that the virus might be present on the returned items, which, as a result, would have to be destroyed. I know some places took things, but a great many did not.
@@stablish4314 mainly down to the government giving no advice,the wrong advice and not showing any leadership at a time of crisis. Stay at home,exercise once a day,wear a mask,leave all your windows open for air,stay at home,no cycling, get fresh air,wear a mask,but you MUST stay at home!!
Here in the u.s. near the end of the summer of 2020 people tried to return all the toilet paper they hoarded. Stores straight up denied them. The videos are glorious.
That's hilarious. I work in a grocery store in Canada, never saw any attempts to return the TP though. My store is in a rich area where people have large houses, so people probably just stored it all away in some unused closet. It doesn't go bad, after all.
...Come to think of it, that's probably why we've had a surplus for months now. Our upper storage shelves in the back are full of TP next to all the seasonal decorations.
America only
@Leo Chon There was a guy in Australia who tried to return some too the video went viral.
What's even the point of trying to return it? They still need to shit. Might as well save it and not have to buy any more for 10 years
@@annasthesia8432 some of them were hoping to profit by selling it at a markup. They bought way more than they could conveniently store.
"it's not that there's a shortage of food" - quite right, it's that there's a shortage of brains.
Luckily I am not a zombie.
i knew this would happen so i bought everything i needed back in january
@Jennifer Lastra its easy to know what would happen when the virus got out of china.. i was already watching the horrors of what was happening in china and stocked up on everything back in january.. while people were relaxing and saying its just a flu or it wont get out of china.. i did all the preparations beforehand.. since its just a flu no one would act until it got out of control and then people would start to panic.
@Jennifer Lastra i dont think so, but you never know right.. you might have it but doesnt show any symptoms
@Jennifer Lastra Dry cough, hard to breathe, aches and pains and 3.2 percent of death, 12 percent of need of hospitalization.
It's weird seeing him buy a whole bag of carrots instead of him scrounging for the smallest nub of a carrot.
Those nubs go a long way
perfectly imperfect carrots :)
Alan Hang
I was thinking to myself, “isn’t labeling random carrots as ‘imperfect’ an act of hate speech; according to English Law logic these days?”
Alan Hang isn’t it though
**falls asleep**
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As someone who’s worked on a farm, my god yes about the loose produce. It’s grown like that, it’s shipped like that, what does it matter if it’s in a container or not? I bet you your sweet little hearts that those wrapped up mushrooms weren’t washed and they have the harvester’s germs all over them.
today on: people forgot how to wash vegetables at home
And that mushrooms are cultivated in *drums🐴🐴🐴💩💩💩* Horseshit!!
Like do you not wash your produce?
"These onions grow in literal, ACTUAL dirt!" I absolutely love blunt british humour. I am a brit myself and I completely agree with the statements about single use plastics!
Indeed
Some people are WAY too squeamish about dirt. When we had vegetables growing in our garden, I would often pull up young carrots, brush the soil off with my hand, and eat the carrots, whilst I did something else. I ate peas fresh out of their pods, as well as broad beans, and snapped off, and ate raw broccolli florets. Dug up and ate radishes, too. Was never ill. The last time I had cause to visit the doctor, was in 2010.
A lot of people today have never played outside, climbed trees, swum in rivers or the sea, etc., and as such have a far weaker immune system. If I have a cold, it lasts 3-4 days at most. A cut will be completely healed in 5-7 days. In the last five years, I've had three days off work, and not consecutively, either.
A bit of dirt won't kill you. Well, it won't kill me.
@@brianartillery You're partly right. Dirt isn't something to worry about. But I'd hardly eat a carrot right from the ground. I'd rinse it first.
It's not uncommon, though, for a cut to heal that quickly. I also doubt so many people have never swum in the sea or played outside. I'm British, so that could be why, since at the schools I've been to there's been large playing fields with trees and bushes about, and the beaches I frequent will be packed full of people, which is why I head there earlier in the day.
@@dragonick2947 in america i know too many people have never been to the beach in my town and they say "ItS NoT A BeaCh ItS a WaTerFrONt PropErTy" like it makes a fucking difference.
@@dragonick2947 - I'm British, too. I've worked with younger people who have had cuts, that have not fully healed after 14 days or so.
We never used chemicals in our garden, so I had no fears about eating things straight out of the ground - I have, in the past, dug up Pignuts (Conopodium majus), which are little radish-like tubers, and eaten them as a snack whilst walking. Never had amy problems.
Now, thousands gather on this wonderful website to witness a man go shopping.
Ikr
Entertainment 2020
Better then watching another news report about people dying.
Surprisingly i'm enjoying it lol
I am watching living the life that I will be living a week from now --- empty store shelves, frightened people, ...
"I don't think I need anything from this aisle" whilst looming ominously closer to the cream eggs
a man needs his cream eggs
AND they’re 3 for a dollar *_* I usually see em 2 for a dollar
hero-of-kvatch
wit? theyre usually a pound each! have you
discovered an ancient land where cream eggs are plentiful and the pound is worth fortunes?
@@Aganoo
To be fair, the pound is one of the most valuable currencies anyways.
any excuse for creme egg panic buying
who else is back here over a year on for a little bit of first lockdown nostalgia?
Well im just more like damn we been tru that lol
I hated it. I'm vegan and honestly there were a few times I wasn't able to find much at all. All beans, pasta, rice, and veg, they were all gone. :(
I woudn't call it nostalgia, but... yeah
@@Zakkious as mad as it sounds for me its actually a bit nostalgic for me, yes weird i know but for me personally it was a pretty good time
Well it's still lockdown for me since April here as the cases Deaths and cases skyrocketed. 2021 is more worse than 2020 I guess.
It's really weird to watch this a year later and remember all the panic buying. I had to get creative with a few meals. Bread sold out and I had to make bread for a few months. I got very good at it. Now I always maintain a 2-week pantry. I never did before. I wonder how many habits over the last year will stick with this generation, like how other major events caused a quirk of habit with generations before us.
In Germany I could not even get yeast or flour. Everything wiped out from the shelves. Pasta, flour, yeast, tins of food, toilet paper.....all gone....you would think a war has broken out.
@@beatrixk.6723 that aged like milk :D
a year ago i was thinking the same way - for example, i had a prediction that strict mask wearing rules will stick to society forever, but go outside now and tell me how right i was. i personally dont see any cooking/buying habits sticking to the generation after the pandemic right now, mid-2022
And again one year later it's again weird to watch with prices for vegetable oil and wheat products sky rocketing here.
I grew up keeping my pantry stocked. At any time I could live off my reserves for months. I may not be happy towards the end with little fresh foods, but I'd be fine. When I got covid, I had plenty of tissues, meds, food, soap and detergent to self isolate.
I grew up bottling foods, stocking freezers and dry goods, and buying sales on personal products. It's just how I live.
all those people commenting on lack of plastic gloves when handling produce:
where are you from if that's normal to you?
Most people in my area in Canada wash their veggies+fruits before eating anyways and I've never seen anyone in my life use plastic gloves to handle produce.
In Australia, I have seen exactly one store with plastic gloves over fifteen years ago, if you're practicing proper food hygiene they're a useless commodity.
I've literally never seen anyone using gloves to handle produce in a grocery store (Canada). I, too, would like answers.
Me too uk,
In Spain they encourage you to use plastic gloves when handling produce. I never use them nor have I been scolded by anyone for not doing it. Honestly most people I see just grab their onions and tomatoes with their bare hands.
Never seen anyone use plastic gloves in the US. We may invert produce bags and pull produce into them if we're being particularly cleanly, but most people just grab stuff.
I can't believe I just watched a grown man go on a normal shopping trip.... and i enjoyed it
Ikr
You and I both pal
Welcome to the club
I feel like have both wasted my time and enjoyed it at the same time watching this video.
Hell, I literally just went shopping and I'm still watching this. But mostly because the panic crap is here too.
I saw someone freaking out that there was a little spider on their strawberries once, forgetting that, shock horror, plants grow outside, among creepies and crawlies. Some people are so sheltered these days 🙄
Yeah we are so unbelievably deathbed from reality and so sterilized. It’s honestly very bad for stupid people in society.
People pay a pound extra for broken up broccoli
@@bxstar5276 its made for disabled people who, for example, don't have great motor skills & can't chop vegetables well. but I understand your point that most people are well-able to chop broccoli instead of buying it pre-cut
@@alyssumbread of course, thank you for helping me to think of that!
Depends on the spider. If I recognise it as a local spider I would just flick it off my strawberry since I know that we don't have venomous spiders. I'm not so sure about spiders I don't recognise that have been imported along with the fruit.
As a fellow British person I legitimately had no idea people who get so crazy about the loose vegetables. Like this is normal for us, and you guys are soooo over thinking it!
We even have lose vegetables in the US too. Very confusing
Surprised people are freaking out about that. You've never seen a loose green pepper or apple at your grocery store?
It's kind of a cultural thing, they're very weird about it in Spain
Loose vegetables/fruit are the norm here in the US. Had no idea anybody would have a problem with that! You're supposed to wash produce when you get it home anyway...
To personally pick the produce to your preference or what you will use it for is preferable. To me at least.
Meaning, big or small potatoes, (to boil or fry) peppers (to fry it whole or dice and use in dishes, or stuff them) or watermelon, thick or thin carrots (to grate or not to grate), green or yellow bananas etcetera.....
I even buy onions in two sizes. Bigger and smaller. Half onion in refrigerator is a mess, though sometimes inevitable even with size appropriate use. Am a bit lazy to buy all onions small size.
i think a lot of it is people panic buying because people are panic buying, less about the fear of the coronavirus and more about the fear of not being able to buy toilet paper because everyone else is buying it because they fear that people are buying it
Exactly. My daughter had a baby on Thursday and there are no nappies in the shops. Why are people buying nappies?
Agreed honestly. Most of the panic imo is coming from people seeing others being panicked and thinking that they need to be too.
@King Cat People think they need to buy for 3 months instead of 2 weeks :/
That be the problem with panic-everything, the self-reenforcedness of it all:
Panic that the panicked state of others will hurt you even if their source of panic doesn't.
@2manynegativewaves Every 2 or 3 months we way a pack of 36 loo rolls. At the moment we're half way the pack. So we still have for about four weeks.
In two or three weeks I'll have a look what the situation is. At this moment (March 15th, but last shopping on March 12th) some items are sold out in Slovakia,
mainly in the shops in smaller villages.
It’s a bit weird hearing our products described for non-British people
Or non-European, as i.e. squash (especially elderberry flavoured) is quite popular in my country as well
@@Mldy96 I want to try some elderberry squash. What's your locale?
@@returnofbeaux I'm from Hungary! But you may find it in neighbouring countries as well :)
Same here, except that I live in Germany and it works the same way here with the shopping carts. It's interesting to see someone having to explain something that's so common and a basic part of daily life.
@@83uwb Same in the Netherlands, I guess I took it for granted that things worked like that everywhere lol. Have seen it in other countries so just assumed it was a universal thing :P
Growing up in the 60's, all fruit and veg was sold loose. Then packed into paper bags.
Yup. That was the best. Luckily, I have two very good greengrocers' shops within walking distance of my house. Lots of lovely loose produce in both. Better quality than supermarket stuff, and you can buy as much, or as little as you want. And it's put in crisp brown paper bags, too.
@@brianartillery you can also find that at local famers markets with the added benefit of supporting local communities
I can see this being a very important history film in the future.
I like how ive been entertained for 18 and a half minutes watching someone go to a shop that is in walking distance of my house
That's the best way to avoid spreading the disease though.
I like how calm you are about it, this is how people should be acting. This panicking is just whipping people into a frenzy and those people scare me. I'd rather take the calm approach as well.
I am definitely more worried about the not calm people than I am about the virus . Kinda think that the not calm people would happily beat me to death for a toilet roll , virus saying .. Probably I won't kill you 😶🤔👋
Yes till there break out an u can’t get food An ppll like u be fucked
I agree, however the worst possible thing is people denying the threat and not self isolating / avoiding crowds when needed.
@@99fruitbat panic and worry has proven to be deadlier than anything else in history. We are our own worst enemies... not a virus
I think part of it is how bad people are with planning. I think the massive food waste is proof of that.
Thank you, needed a soothing, calm attitude toward this whole situation. We can all adapt if we are calm and realistic.
I always go back and watch your ‘older’ videos whenever I need some comfort, as weird as that sounds there’s something relaxing and safe feeling about your videos, maybe it’s your voice.
But this was was a shocker, it’s amazing how quickly you forget about things, this was only a few years ago and now we are back to normal you forget how bad things did get. It’s great that you’ve made this video as a kind of diary entry of the beginnings of the pandemic.
You deserve every success that comes your way through these videos, to some you’re just a bloke that makes videos on UA-cam, but to some of us you’re like a friend.
Thank you Mike.
The virus doesn't scare me, the crazed people panicking scare me
@@jirtini you dont see full countrys locked down over a flu.. just keep thinking its just a flu dude.. atleast im prepared
Seriously. It's scarier thinking I might not be able to eat or have basic toiletries because of these crazies. It's what basically amounts to a bad flu virus, not a zombie apocalypse, people.
Jirtini Wolf Studios it's actually *less deadly* but more infectious but is related to super deadly disease which is which is really caused the scare
@@juanchuang5978 Look up what a corona virus actually is. It's the same family as cold and flu. And people do panic over the flu every year thanks to the media. Plus any flu strain with a slightly different behavior. Remember bird flu and swine flu? They behaved like a more aggressive flu strain but people acted like the world was ending then, too.
juan chuang which is why the countries are on lockdown which helps stop the spread of a super infectious illness plus it does affect old people and it would be sad if a bunch of old people passed away cause the country didn't lockdown
Seems like a lot of people are going to be eating pasta and toilet roll sandwiches with mayo on in the coming weeks.
Ahhh, that's a classic. Used to eat that as a lad!
Can’t go wrong with that
Paul P Taking luxurious one roll per poop unit shits. I guess.
Noodle on a roll instead of chicken on a raft, I suppose.
anything is better than those shitty fuckin chocolate eggs
The same thing is going on in the US. There's no toilet paper on the shelves.
I couldn't get any sugar. Why the hell are people panic buying sugar?
I think the pastors are telling everyone that it is the end of the world.
For baking
To bake
My local supermarket ran out of yeast, kinda supports the baking thesis.
Sugar we have plenty. But there's no flour anymore and no yeast (but why wife just told me that there's now a bakery selling yeast), soap's very limited too. And in some stores toothpaste is gone. Well, and it didn't really help one week that pasta was on sale, so the shelves where really completly empty. But ever since the stores limited the amount you could buy it has gotten better (except for the toilet paper, that is).
Absolutely loved your rant about touching loose produce. People can sometimes lose sight of simple facts (food is grown in dirt!), and what's important (single-use plastics are helping to kill the planet).
I really appreciate your calm, smart style. So glad I happened upon your channel!
The actual problem isn’t plastic. It’s oil. Plastic is byproduct of oil refining. Stop flying for vacations. Stay on your side of the world. Drive only when necessary. Move closer to work. Everybody needs to do their part for our children and following generations.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 No plastic is also a big problem as long Biodegration means it either needs to be burnt which creates toxic fumes or stored (dumped) which mean it'll for sure end up in the ocean.
It's so ridiculous that anyone was even upset about it or expected him to wear gloves. I've never seen anyone wearing gloves to touch onions before, and do they not realise that the field workers and the staff at the supermarket would also be touching the veggies when they're restocking? Sometimes they might wear gloves but they'd be work gloves probably with soil on them. I think some people are massively disconnected from the realities of food.
did my regular shopping today. there was some woman in a right panic by the empty pasta shelves
beepboop lol
Was she Italian?
A last minute prepper probably emptied it. I prepped more silently, in a way that would leave them time to restock before the rest of the people went crazy, I did it in January.
That would be me
Imagine if you told her she could make her own, shooketh
I hadn't realized how badly people are panicking, it's like they're preparing for the apocalypse
You tell me? I sprained my leg 2 weeks ago and because I live in an apartment with no elevators and I cannot take the stairs with my leg like this, I have been pretty much stuck in my flat and have to order my groceries. Which sucks when people are panic stockpiling...
Lol
@yenyulified ye xD adrenaline rush
Absolutely shook and shaken that some items in the UK are actually priced 2£ or 4£ instead of 1,99 or 3,99.
There's a lot of items priced like that. But our stores aren't afraid to price an item as a whole number. Its very common. Our pricetag also actually reflects the price you pay at the cashier unlike our American counterparts
@@darkelemental In finland only lidl prices items as whole numbers. Stores really love to treat customers like easily tricked little babies. The best part is since we don’t use 1 cent coins 3,99€ actually is literally 4€, you’re not even saving a the cent lmao
@@TainaElisabeth that's strange. As a country we all collectively see 1.99 and actually know it as 2 because the penny doesn't matter to us. It holds no actual real value like it used to so stores have probably realised that we don't care about the penny difference over the last 10 years or so and it saves them time at the checkout counting change. Strangely aldi and lidl are some of the few stores here that insist on using the .99 for everything
I'm 69 & was taught that the reason for non whole number prices was to avoid theft by staff. If you have to give change you have to ring the transaction on the till, if you don't have to give change you can pocket the cash. Nowadays that's less necessary.
The medicine aisle brings back memories. I inject prescription medication 3 times a week for MS and need to take 2 paracetamol beforehand to avoid being in pain all night afterwards. Seeing the whole shelf of paracetamol disappear was pretty stressful
this is why the government needs to be careful with talking to their citizens, most people are easy to scare and will go into frenzy’s like this because of television.
Obviously it's the news who spread rumors etc. bringing up panic just because they get attention and views for it. Despicable, I say.
LillyCookies DDAENG shits about to hit the fan
Do you have food for least two weeks? If not go buy. As those "panic buyers" did. This "panic buy" was not a mistake. Mistake was that they had to do it. You should always have enough food for least two weeks.
LillyCookies DDAENG no it’s not the TV’s fault, it’s cos people are fucking stupid. 2 grams or common sense is all that’s needed to realise everything will be fine
The Alanator keep telling yourself that anyone with half of braincell can see it’s about to infect a lot of people with a lot of deaths
It has NOTHING to do with these products reappearing on eBay at gouged prices. Nothing at all.....
what in particular is gouged on ebay?
@@alexanderkasson106 Meaning they're reselling on Ebay at a MUCH higher price.
I don't think "gouged" is the right word though
@@alexanderkasson106 Sanitizer wipes and masks.
Even toilet paper. - as stations and convenience stores buy it up from the larger stores hoping the less mobile will be buying it up at their increased prices.
My local paint supply stores had to take masks off the shelf because people are over buying for themselves and resale, it leaves none for workers.
@@alexanderkasson106 I saw someone selling one square of a 2ply toilet paper roll for $0.99
Everyones trying to make a buck off the crowded spaces where getting these things is less convenient. People are quick to open their wallets for ease of purchasing these things, and lots of folks are capitalizing.
Where I'm located, people normally buy things, like fruit, & things we have a surplus of, even criminals moving drugs for profit. They make the few hour drive to the big cities and double or triple their money. ( I make wine and pick a lot of fruit, always competing with city-resellers. )
But thats just business 101
Wait, people get squicked out by you handling produce? Dear god, how do they think it ends up in the bin to buy it? Like, have you guys ever seen a bathroom out in the middle of the farmer's field? Exactly, so how do you think the workers relieve themselves? That's right. Never mind the deer and rabbit and whatever comes to eat the deer and rabbit, Plenty of workers use tobacco, but smoking takes too much time so they'll have a chaw in.
Oh, and don't think combine harvesters are going to save you in terms of hygiene, those things will mangle and grind up the field creatures and place their corpses right along side the crop to be sorted out.
So, enjoy your tobacco spit, poo and animal guts covered vegetables if you don't wash them!
You probably got more dirt on you from handing the vegetable than the vegetable got from being handled.
Wash your dang vegetables.
I think the silly people protesting are all fourteen-year-olds who don't cook or shop, don't understand basic hygiene, and don't know that fruit and veg need to be washed and sometimes peeled. They wouldn't have a clue that you could take an onion home without touching it, and find that it has neck rot.
"...get squicked out..." I've never heard that before! See, YT can be educational! :)
it's genuinely baffling to me, i have clinically diagnosed OCD, generally triggered by dirt and the like and it doesn't bug me because you are just supposed to wash veg and the like. i really have to wonder what those folks are thinking when complaining about picking up the produce to check it, like do they just buy any piece of veg they touch and eat it without washing? cause to my mind that's way more gross.
I categorically refuse, I will eat the extra free nutrients and I will produce stronger sons than you ever thought possible.
I'm here a year after this was first posted. I'm Immune Compromised, and nope. Plain Washing won't protect you from food born illness. In the US, produce is washed and cleaned before being shipped to grocery stores. Before the C19, lysteria was the last big outbreak of food born illness- on lettuces. The Contamination happened in transit. The only thing that would kill lysteria was heat or a chemical sanitizer... that isn't edible. I considered vodka to sanitize produce, but it doesn't have a high enough alcohol content. It takes 150 proof, no dilation at all, alcohol to kill lysteria.
Even if the produce is not contaminated with the big bad bugs, I'm sill vulnerable to ALL of them. I decided to not eat raw food any more.
doh, I forgot to add: I don't begrudge anyone eating all the produce you need. For those of us with broken immune systems, we have to think differently.
@@Objective-Observer they never claimed washing your produce kills all illnesses caused by raw food
This is the only person I could watch go grocery shopping and be entertained 😂
I bet the CEO of Andrex is laughing his head off and planning his next house extension
Yeah and Kleenex
"now what Ferrari should I buy?"
@@billylardner They're both made by the same company.
Andrex shares are looking excellent..... On paper 😁
Should have bought shares
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
=Agent K, Men In Black=
Trump just panicked and banned all travel from continental Europe. 😯 UK is excluded. Because politics. 🙄
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 I saw a video title mentioning a 30 day UK travel ban, actually.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Like on Titanic "We're American, both of us, we don't have lice."
You're British, you don't have Corona Virus. ;)~
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 And then you are going to blame him for not doing anything to stop the virus. Hypocrite
@Jennifer Lastra Humans are animals though...
I worked in a mid-size Co-Op supermarket all through covid, and I distinctly remember returning from two weeks of annual leave on Sunday 15th March 2020 to ABSOLUTE CHAOS.
Obviously we opened at 10am, but did the whole "Doors open at 9:30 for browsing" thing that has since disappeared. When we opened the doors at 9:30 there was a huge queue of people snaking round the corner outside, and they all barrelled in with their trollies, loading them up with massive amounts of loo roll and pasta and other stuff, and then by 10am when we could actually open the tills there were huge queues down almost every aisle.
This went on and got worse. I think people must have been tracking delivery vans on facebook groups or something because there were occasions where our delivery was only just backing into the yard when people came piling through the doors demanding the toilet rolls. They wanted it straight off the lorry. I remember one guy shouting at me that he had driven 30 miles to our shop just for toilet rolls.
Then when we put blanket limits of two per item across everything in the store, I remember a woman kicking off that I wouldn't let her buy 20 bottles of wine - she said "But I NEED them, because I have to self isolate for two weeks!"
If you're supposed to be self isolating due to exposure WHY ARE YOU HERE???? also, wine? That's your must have item???
That whole time was an absolute nightmare. I'm so glad I no longer work in a supermarket!
I'm glad you got out of it, essential workers never got any credit during that madness, just a bit of virtue signalling.
In Australia they made the booze shops essential businesses. Too many functional alcoholics.
Thank you for the straight talking re. handling fruit and veg. Ppl are getting a bit precious really. Hi from Australia.
I know this is a while ago now, but I wonder how many people complaining about the touching and putting down of food, were not for reasons of bacteria spread, but for risk of spreading covid. You're unlikely to find covid on your onion when you pull it out of the ground.
I do think it is wise to minimise what you touch, but don't buy, even if you say you have washed your hands. It's pretty hard not to touch your face at all until you get home again.
Other than that reason, I'm fine with loose veg being touched.
It's got to be just the Americans, right?
@@artyomsherwin648 I'm American and I've never in my life seen plastic gloves for handling the produce. The idea was completely shocking to me when I saw the video actually.
They do the plastic thing in Europe. Italy are quite serious about it up north, old people will complain at you if they see you touching without gloves, even things like oranges 🙄
Old lady here ! I remember the bread panic , the tea panic and the bizzare salt panic ( think that one was around 1974 ) ! Salt 😶 A neighbor actually bought about 50 packs of Saxa Salt . Probably still has most of them to this day .
A quick Google search did not help me and this was before my time, but I am very curious. Please could you tell me, why, oh why oh why was there a salt panic?
@@Dthenn l have absolutely no idea what triggered the Salt Panic . This occurred in Scotland UK , don't know if it affected the rest of the UK . Scottish folks tend to like a fair bit of salt on their food , well we certainly did back then . I don't what the trigger was . We also had the coffee panic buy which did worry my German mother , but family in Germany posted us packages of coffee beans , so she survived that one . We also had The Winter of Discontent !! Loads of people went on strike , no rubbish collection , electricity cut off , dockers refusing to unload food supplies ! Fun times 😶👋
@MsSunhappy Check out The Winter of Discontent . Loads of people went on strike in the UK . Brought down the Government . Due to the power workers going on strike ( amongst many others ) our electricity kept being cut off . Guess what panic that caused ? Yep ! The great panic buying of candles ! To this day I always have a wee emergency supply of candles .
@MsSunhappy I believe it's called the Herd Instinct . You aren't panicking , then you see other people panicking , that triggers a panic response in yourself . As individuals we can act independently , once part of a group / mob , we can't usually do that . Fish and other wildlife use the same methods to escape danger , shoals , herds . Ever wondered why penguins hang about in groups waiting for one penguin to enter the water ? Or indeed kick one of their number in ? It's pretty freaky reason 😶
@MsSunhappy i dig how you worded that sentence
''I do like the thick ones''
-Atomic Shrimp, 2020
Thats what she said
this needs to be a shirt
a man of taste
You spelled "thicc" wrong.
thicc*
I've been bulk buying toilet paper for years, all my mates always thought it was hilarious I'd have a stack of about 100 rolls or so next to the loo. Suddenly they can't buy any and don't think the idea is quite as funny any more. (It's *MUCH* cheaper to buy in bulk vs a few rolls at a time)
Did they ask you for some of your stash?
I never understood the hoarding (and bulk buying ISN'T hoarding) of toilet rolls. None of the C-19 symptoms were excessive loose bowel movements, were they? Or were people terrified that they might cough so hard, they'd crap themselves?
Don't recall seeing either symptom on the WHO website.
Wait... I know what it is... a huge amount of people today are just arseholes. That's it.
I just watched this man go shopping for like five minutes and I was oddly very entertained, it’s amazing the funny things that people buy when they panic
Remember me from last vid?
Apparently toilet roll is extremely tasty, if my local Tesco is anything to go by.
But seriously. Why is everyone stocking up on TP? Do they plan on shitting themselves every 5 minutes? If things get so bad that shops can't restock TP, then you'll have more important things to worry about
@@Intrspace maybe they're are making improvised masks with them? because otherwise it makes zero sense, ok let's assume its for toilet use of course, other use i think they'd be using them is to wipe hand after apply hand sanitizer but there are sanitized special papers for that isnt it?? but its tp itself is not that clear because if you destroy the packaging it immediately get expose to air temp, worst ppl bags in which they are carry them might even more dirty hence making the tp useless if thats what they are looking for in the first place. so if thats the reason why there are stocking up to do these things or to be absolutely germ free, why don't they straight up buy, like i said, hand sanitized papers, or these wipes soaked in javel or something. where i live the price of tp is going up too, its insane! i really dont get it. ahaha
@@gary_05 The Toilet paper stockpiling panic started in Australia because they get the raw materials for making the paper & the cardboard tubes from China, & due to all the lock downs in China the supply chain was drying up.
But in the UK our raw materials are homegrown or come from Scandinavia, so it's more of a case or panic fuels more panic!
@@NOWThatsRichy it is still so ridiculous, even though they stopped production over there, and i dont think its something that's gonna happen in every industrial locations in china where TP are made, even though hypothetically speaking if that happens somehow, and productions are not solely from there anyway, but it more probable that this virus will likely die down long before there are shortages in TP.
Fangles you would expect tissues to be sold out
I wasn’t panicking until i went to the store and saw how people are panicking. I watched this video after feeling shook by my supermarket trip and your relaxed attitude towards the whole thing is really comforting to see. Thank you!
I would of shouted out can anyone tell me where the headless chicken isle is.🤣🤣
I haven't been to the store in a while now, I wonder how things are right now where I live... I don't think there's been that much panic in Finland yet, except for this year's high school graduates who are shitting their pants because they had their finals pushed into one week and their graduation is at risk of getting postponed by an entire year at worst if they fail a subject due to not having enough time to study or if they get sick and can't attend and the subject they fail doesn't have a retry next fall. I'm glad I graduated high school almost 5 years ago, didn't need to deal with this crap, only had a scare of some stomach bug that's like a yearly thing, but with that disease our instructions were literally "it doesn't matter if you have it you're gonna attend and we'll have mattresses if you have to lie down and we'll give you a bucket to puke in"...
Same here in the states. Started to worry how I'm gonna feed my family when everyone is buying all the rice, pasta, etc. but the man makes a good point. How the hell is there a food shortage when there is an entire isle of chocolate eggs?
It was a nice slap to the face to make me get ahold of myself.
I just laugh when I see it, and ridicule people who are so obviously panic buying, why do you need to buy 48 rolls of toilet paper?? Are you having a family gathering and all of you have IBS or some shit
@@kamerons2895 I mean if it's a pack of 48 it's just smart since generally speaking the more rolls per package = smaller price per roll. I live together with my boyfriend and we always buy a 32 pack which is the largest package we can find and it's cheaper than buying four 8 roll packs. But if it's 48 rolls in smaller packages, yeah it's panic shopping
And about a week after this there was a noticeable rise in tossed food, apparently bulk buying perishables was also a thing. Honestly mind blowing how people instantly cease all brain activity whenever something happens
When I saw this video a few months ago at the beginning of lockdown it really reassured me. I’m not a big panicker by any means, but all the scaremongering and the stuff I kept seeing online (despite trying to actively avoid it) was starting to get to me, especially because I live alone. When you said the part about the chocolate eggs I felt completely reassured, and rewatching this video has reminded me of how much it helped me. I just want to say thank you 😊
Imagine doing your shopping and seeing some dude walking by talking to himself while filming you
I do, but I have therapy for it 🤪
Come to Bristol there’s loads of people talking to themselves
that literally happened to me like an hour ago at costco
Dean everyone’s on drugs in Bristol lol
Russian Pickle funny you should say that ❄️
Buy up all of those cream eggs. Then when everyone is hunkered down living on basics, you can roam the streets swapping yummy cream eggs for toilet rolls!
@Pat Terson no lockdown may be 6 months
@@techosarusrex Now they said this is a possibility won't people hoard more? Certainly put people off spending anything I'm really hoping its not six months
@@nat3007 well Jenny Harries said it may be 6 months before normality returns
That was me 😅 I bought loads of creme eggs and party rings because it’s all I needed!
@Pat Terson this comment really didn't age well now did it
I feel like I just followed Mark Corrigan around Tescos
This is one of my most favourite comments ever 😂
I was looking for this comment😂
I was looking for this comment😂
Im doing THE BIG shop mark!
I’m born in America and raised there but my parents are from London and it’s weird and cool to see more people pronouncing grocery items like them
The panic buyers are about as bad as the people coughing in others' faces
People who hoard toilet paper should be given community service cleaning public toilets.
@ricky gore Well some people do panic buy. Stocking up on several of the same items in their carts. I saw someone buy like 4 gallons of milk, and 4 large containers of cottage cheese the other day. Like, how are you supposed to eat or drink all of that dairy before it expires? And why so much dairy? It'd make more sense to buy powdered milk. And it was just an old couple shopping too. But I do understand what you mean, and that it isn't just because of panic shopping.
@@usernameisunavailable8270 its because people don't want to be out in public during this pandemic especially old people, and cheese can go in the freezer, milk too.
@@4nd3rzzon Ah, I see. But gross.
Still a lot of dairy. Like damn me and my high cholesterol lol.
Coronavirus: *breaks out*
Everyone in panic mode:
*TOILETPAPER*
Saw someone has already done a psychological study on it. Apparent people buy toilet paper for comfort because it is a large product and doesn’t spoil so makes people feel they are prepared.
If your gonna buy that much toilet paper you might as well buy a bidet and never need it again
@@BobMarley-vl5gl it's basically the same price tho
1 month supply of food. 10 month supply of toilet paper. God save us.
Sad tissue noises
I remember going to my tesco and seeing no pasta or rice left, and so the two-three weeks after lockdown I was out of a job that guaranteed me atleast a free meal, and no food in my cupboard, I honestly ate a sngle serving bowl of porridge oats with no sugar, the really shit 90p bag of frozen sausages that were 50% wheat, tesco brand mustard for dinner, bread was optional depending on if any were left on the days I went, no flour meant I couldn't make my own either... The people who panic bought everything leaving the poor/lower class/students with nothing should be ashamed of themselves. I initially lost almost about 6 KG, then gained about 20 during the span of lockdown, though the gain was also because I decided to sit down and write a novel, and learn Chinese, not just because I was eating whatever shit food was left at Tesco.
You gained 20kg cos u were in a kcal surplus , a massive one. You lost 6kg when you were in deficit
Congrats on positivity of learning language and penning a novel :-)
i really like your videos. what you aim to say , what you try to show is always so positive, smart, considerate.. it makes one feel well and comfortable and hopeful. thank you for all you do.oh and i love your food challenges, you truly do give hope and inject creativity to many people which might be struggling. very beautiful from you.
This isn't the 1930s, the supply is more than sufficient, people need to calm down.
Is it though? Especially if people are buying everything
MrBark45 that’s why people need to calm the fuck down
People are dumb cunts
@@MrBark1969 better to be safe than sorry 🙏
I think it's more about not being able to leave your home without risking getting sick. But some people do take it too far.
“Sir, you have been tested positive with coronavirus”
“But how, i had 3000 ply toilet paper..”
🤣😁😅😄
"The woman knife fighting you for the last toilet paper roll tested positive, now so do you "
😆😆😆
@@Daniela-pr7rz That's why it's important to wash her blood of your knife before using it to cut up the toilet paper you're eating for lunch. Rookie mistake.
@@emperortbw402 I wish you told me that a few hours ago, before I simply had to knock down a child for getting first at the last candy on the shelf.
Never thought to try potato waffles with a fried breakfast. It makes perfect sense. I now know what was missing from my life. This changes everything.
Potato waffles with a fried egg on top...
Breakfast (or late night post-pub beer-sponge) of the gods, mate 😋
@@peterclarke7006 Sounds good to me.
I must not fear
Fear is the mind killer
Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration
....
You know, when you're depressed and lonely and confined to your house, this is strangely comforting,.
Chin up James, get out there for a walk if you can.
There's so much about this world that you're not missing out on, but I hope you can get some company and some fresh air.
go for a walk mate early hints of spring is in the air blossom on some of the trees even in London.
I went shopping at a very large mall yesterday. It was almost empty.
Great time for introverts!
Stay healthy though 🙂
I find an escort sucking my c0ck while I eat nachos works for me.
People in Slovakia don't get paid enough to go around panic buying even if they wanted to. There's always a bright side
Slovaks are cool people. I had an exchange student from Slovakia and I miss that boy so much! He was so smart and funny. I have to go visit him one of these days.
@@skeptigal8899 I stayed for 2 weeks in Slovakia a few years ago, beautiful country and beautiful people. Honestly I still get random cravings for Bryndzové halušky
and even though I've made attempts at my own version of it I don't think it compares truly to how the Slovaks make it. Going back for more some day!
@@skeptigal8899 Slovakia was established by nazis.
@@halinallet652 congratulations on winning the Most Useless Comment Of The Day! Well done.
Most people in Scotland are the same.People selfishness never fails to depress me.lol
I went to Asda yesterday 30 mins after they opened and I ended up having an utter meltdown. The shelves were totally empty, it was madness,
I went shopping during the start of lockdown and people were pushing, getting in each other's faces. People brought all of their kids along too, so they gathered in large groups. Then some idiot yelled at me for buying a loose pepper.
Calm down everyone
There is something really enjoyable about watching someone doing some shopping at good old Tesco
What’s worse is how their panicking and hoarding result in me having to react similarly; my dog is diabetic (amongst other things) and has a specific diet of certain foods, those foods are now almost always out of stock, resulting in me now having to hoard those foods when I can so my dog can live. Forced to hoard because they are!
Im Sorry for your dog hope he/she is alright
Yup I have dietary restrictions and don't know what I'm going to est to stay healthy this week.
And I'm forced to hoard too when I went to buy dog food there was only 1 bag left
I feel like this is the same for both humans and pets with restrictive diets. For all the urging in the UK to be 'considerate' its a joke and some of the more vulnerable are suffering.
Your Movies her dog isn’t taking resources from babies so leave her dog alone ass
Ahhh... The taste of a true Apocalypse: Spaghetti sauce and Hot Dogs.
Such weird stuff to buy, makes it rather obvious that most people out there have absolutely no clue about cooking...
By the way, the Austrian government is handling this situation surprisingly well, they're avoiding panic and inform the people properly. For once we're doing something sensible!
I mean the UK government are trying. It is the media mostly that are making people scared. The advice is not to panic buy or do anything unordinary at all.
Bruh y’all got spiders snakes to worry about, this is basically a mild inconvenience for yall
I mean the spread there is crazy tho, they kinda normalized having it i think because everyone is coughing but no one is getting tested. They say "it's just a cold mate"
The gaming fish 13 this would be the first time I’ve heard of “spider snakes” in Austria... think you might’ve meant Australia mate
I Just went to penny to pick up some regular stuff and left with nothing
I like how you have a valid response to everything and actually say something, not in a rude way but in a almost comedic way.
Just subscribed after watching a few of your other videos. You seem like a lovely, genuinely nice person.
On another note, I haven't been out (in public places) for about 3 weeks now, so it was nice to see how it's going for other countries and not just my own.
The sad thing is all the food that will be thrown away by the people who don’t actually know how to cook but have bought ingredients
Well said about the veg by the way. When I was young I was sent round to the greengrocer with a bag and he just poured all the veg in together loose.
Yeah in Australia people were trying to return the stuff they panic bought, as they either can’t afford the ridiculous amount they bought or felt bad. We now can’t return most things..
People worried about his hands rather than coughs and sneezes floating around. Wash your veg people.
@@andymorgan6644 I don't think most people are worried particularly about atomic shrimp's hands, but about the coughs and sneezes on people's hands generally, and those people getting those on the veggies. People are gross, you might be surprised to find out how many don't even wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Forget the sneezes even, you can get Covid-19 from literal human fecal matter put there by thoughtless people going through the veggies. Covid-19 also doesn't wash off super well with only water, but you shouldn't wash veggies with soap or alcohol, so if it did get on them, you're kinda screwed. Once we have a vaccine and most people are vaccinated, it won't be such a big deal, but for now I think some worry is warranted.
OMG. i work in a lidl. and this person came to my till. have 30 bags of pasta, 3 entire cases of tuna (you get about 50 in a case), about 20 bags of self raising and plain flour each. and aload of other stuff. only for their damn card to get declined. had to put all the stuff back.
Koba oh my days a hahahahahah how stupid loool
Im kinda gald it got declines
not when you gotta put it all back. takes the fun out of it
Doh!! 😥😥😥
Oh dear, what a shame......tee bloomin' hee. That's so funny!! I wonder if they were shopping for another store and were hoping to sell it all for a fat profit!?! Sorry you had to put it all back though!
I just watched some dude do his shopping during the apocalypse... why did i enjoy it is the real question
people just need to wash their fruits and vegetables
"There's a shortage of bread? Then let them eat chocolate eggs"
-Atomic Shrimp
It's a reference to the French Revolution when the queen who lived far away from France got informed of the starvation and she said "There is no bread, then let them eat cake"
Sequel 12 yeah but thats a rumor and shes never said that
Brioche*
God I’m an idiot, I thought it was a joke about Jesus and Easter, because he multiplied the bread, and when he died and couldn’t multiply bread, Easter happened
@@m..w6877 I busted out laughing reading this comment. I like that idea though. Your not an idiot.
News: Self isolate
People: Let's all go to Aldi at once
LIDL have done a good job...perhaps the greed only applies to ASDA...Sainsbury's good as WELL but they get alot of abuse from customers
ASDA need to take that advert down implying only pensioners and vulnerable can shop between 6-9am ...if they don't intend implementing it take it down..their not looking too good at the moment.
"Tills 1-8 for pensioners only please'..that was an announcement at 7am when their were only supposed to be them in at that time..when asked why the store is full up with people under that age with full trolleys they answered.. well we did open at 6am..it was 7am when asked
As a Canadian I love hearing the stories CBC have been putting out about the people "Stuck abroad at the vacation destination" when those people ha e also planned those trips "two or three months ago"
Better off ... is half the price and better meat than tesco
I hate panic buyers
Fuck panic buyers
In the first march weeks Aldi looked like a warzone.
That's how shopping carts work at Aldi's here in the US. I have several in my garage because they are a bargain at $0.25 😁
This is a week later and things have gotten much worse he could still find frozen stuff we can’t now because all the refrigerators are all empty thanks to the panic buying some peoples homes must look like the hoarder next doors which is a program on TV where some people’s homes are so packed with junk they can hardly get though their front door and they end up not even knowing what they’ve got and they’re trampling all over their junk and much of it gets broken! But as for these panic buyer much of their stuff will finally end up in the dustbin because it’ll end up rancid or out of date before they get around to eating it! And the crying shame of it is Someone else could of had that food that’s going to be chucked out!!!
If my stores are out of healthy food, i give myself a pass to live off chocolate and crisps
Americans and New Zealanders don't know what crisps are, they call them Chips. And what we call Chips they call fries, very confusing!
@@iamrocketray haha all the different terminology
I was thinking you can live on candy/sweets bc nobody hoarding them.
Ray Tillman you can eat chips if you like...
Both meanings...
And what they call soccer, we call football... And what they call football, we call handegg... Confusing times indeed.
13:48 When a branch loaded with pears broke from a tree in my garden, I took the whole thing to the school I worked in for the children to 'pick' their own fruit.
One lad was horrified that this was unhygienic because bugs might have crawled on them; he actually thought plastic-bagged fruit was safer than my fresh, ripe, pesticide-free beauties!
Christ that is sad
There's an entire industry that made sure people preferred bagged food instead of natural ones that grow in gardens around the house. I believe that all of those extra hyper super precautions they tell you to take when canning food are designed to make it look like it's too much bother to do it yourself at home, give up and buy canned food from the supermarkets.
So sad...
WOW, that's astounding! But, also, a great thing to do
I'd take those pears anyday haha
We have those "squash" drinks in Sweden too! There are essentially two variations, one that's closer to the sugary store bought fruit juices/sodas and one that's closer to home made fruit drinks. We call both of them "lättdryck", lit. light drink, because they are usually sold in 2 dl tetras and then you add water at home, so they are lighter to carry than the already prepared drinks.
I live in Sweden and have to say I'm very surprised at how cheap the food is in UK!
This video opened my eyes to the possibility of grocery shopping ASMR
@Liz bth pls
Something about watching a guy walk down the refrigerated meat aisle while the typical supermarket beeping goes on in the background, it gives me goosebumps.
@Bizz493 check out SouthernASMR Sounds. She has some videos where she rearranges shelves in a supermarket. Might scratch your itch.
Oh
I've been watching grocery hauls for years. Just the right balance of unnecessary yet interesting information to keep my mind from drifting off while being relaxed;)
I finally feel important as a supermarket worker during this crisis lol
Thank you for your service I guess
I would be fucking pissed lol
Depends what you work as?
Treasure Trails You’re always important in the eyes of God! We bless y’all!
The nation salutes you 👋👋
Wow! All that plastic wrapped veg is insane! In Canada (Alberta, anyway), most of the veg is loose, like the onions. I wasn't shocked by you handling produce, I was shocked by how much of the produce was prepackaged! Good on the UK for committing to get rid of some of that packaging. We just wash our veggies when we get home. Cool water and vinegar help kill mold spores, too, so your produce lasts longer.
You DO know why toilet paper is selling like hot cakes, right?
'Cause when 1 person coughs, 100 people shit themselves.
That swing on the tin hotdog just made me laugh. Your comment on 'look at the swing on that hotdog ... you just have to admire that" ... just made me laugh, Thank you, sir.
That hot dog was packin
i could laugh if it was vegan
It'll make your day that there's a whole video of it. Look up the wobble dog. 😝
@@jumpander Playing spot the vegan is almost as easy as playing spot the 11 year old
@@BornToBeWired The opposite is also true. Therefore your point is negligible.
If they would stop panic buying there would be enough for everyone. I have to go shopping tomorrow and I dread finding what you found, empty shelves. We are a retired couple so don't really need a lot, just a little will do us.
2learn4ever I live in a family of 6 and we only have a 4 pack of toilet roll to last us this week because there wasn't any others in the shop
I went shopping a few hours ago and absolutely nothing was out of stock except the premade single-serving salad bowls. Plenty of bread, plenty of tuna, plenty of canned everything, and more rice than you could shake a stick at. It largely depends on the store you're going to.
I wager large warehouse stores like Food 4 Less or Costco are going to be picked over, but my local Albertsons affiliate was just fine.
@@lewissouster4662 i suggest you using water. I know its sounds weird, but it kinda work.
90 seconds water? What about soap? My arse is a complete twat and gives me nothing but problems. Even still, when I was my bum, I use water and shower gel. I think some religious people wipe with water and hand but I just think that’s very unhygienic
Graham Kelly if you use hand soap after you wash your bum then it’s not unhygienic. Your hand won’t have anything on it when you’re washing it as well
You sir are a man I hope to grow old to be. So real. So humble. So chill.
Can't even go out and buy your weekly shop anymore, everyone acting as if the black death has arrvied.
If they did, that would be sensible.
@@rosiefay7283 It would be sensible to act like the black death had arrived? I highly doubt it. Yes this pandemic is bad and everyone needs to take precautions, but panic will just make things worse. Let me remind you that the chance of dying if you got the black death was above 90% while for the cornavirus its less than 5%. Yes 5% is a big deal and many people will/have died and we should all be doing what we can to stop the spread, but 5% is very different to 90%. If there was a pandemic of the black death MANY more people would die and I really don't think instilling the panic/hysteria that would come with an event like that into this is a good idea. As I've said what we need in times like this is a level head - not panic.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you said, but it did seem like you were insinuating this.
TheUnluckyThirteen The reason it was so deadly was because they didn’t have modern healthcare then... or modern hygiene practices.
So it wouldn’t actually be too outlandish to say that the plague has arrived. We’re just more equipped to deal with it now.
@@TainaElisabeth I'm sorry, but I'd have to disagree. For one thing our modern hygiene wouldn't affect the death rate of an illness, just a person's chance of catching the illness in the first place and so wouldn't change the deadliness of the black death - it would still have a 90% chance of killing you once you caught it. As for our new medical advancements, yes they will probably have some affect, but it isn't as if they are going to make a disease like the black death suddenly have a much lower mortality rate.
Look at it this way: without medical assistance of any kind children get mild to no symptoms when they catch the corona virus and the only children to die from it have had underlying medical problems. The same goes for younger adults in most cases, except for the few unlucky ones who get really ill and have to go to hospital, but that is a small percentage. Now think of the black death. Without any medical help children (or people of any age) died in a matter of days over 90% of the time.
You can't say coronavirus is as deadly/bad as the black death when without any medical attention at all younger healthy people aren't severly affected by coronavirus, but those same types of young, healthy individuals had a 90% chance of dying if they caught the black death.
Also, don't try the vaccines card. Vaccines are specific to the illness they were created for and so whatever vaccines people have wont help them when it comes to coronavirus as there isn't a coronavirus vaccine yet. This means vaccines wont make a difference to whether coronavirus is as deadly as the black death or not. Which it most definately isn't.
@@TainaElisabeth Plague is a whole different family of Virus Strand.
I wonder what people think when they buy 90 toilet rolls, " I am gonna build a fort out of these to defend myself against corona virus."
Ehh, my family naturally buys things in large quantities. I dont remember my dad ever buying less than 50 rolls at a time. Less hassle
depends how asses they need to wipe
😂😂😂
@Ad Lockhorst but very good against the results of a diet of canned hotdogs pasta and oil :))))
That's what my dad keeps saying.
I love the explaining bits of normal british life. It sounds like you're explaining that humans drink water to an alien
Yes, but remember, here in the States we generally don't drink barley water or squash. Nice to know what you do with it...
To me that squash drink is very alien.
Lol I'm American too and a lot of the subtitles were interesting and insightful lol. I didn't know they sell eggs unrefrigerated there, very interesting. Come to think of it, why don't they do that here?
@@i.dont.read.replies There is a video explaining the different mindsets of having unrefrigerated eggs to refrigerated eggs. They do look and taste different but for me, I like the US eggs over British ones. I think it's a matter of what you grew up eating.
@@i.dont.read.replies it's the way the eggs are processed here in the states- they're pre-washed, which removes the protective bloom layer (natural vacuum seal.)
Eggs aren't (edit: commonly) prewashed in Europe, they're just given a dusting to remove stray feathers and are made sure there isn't too much poo ;) keeping the natural anti-bacterial layer intact.
Even though this is 2 years old I still enjoyed watching it
Hey, i live in hungary and i really like your videos. To be honest i was really surprised that there was no big difference between the hungarian Tesco and the British one (you guys have a bigger selection of cereals :D ) and here the price of anything that has mildly longer shelf life than a couple of days has went up an insane amount.. it just doesn't even make sense.
By the way on your videos, they are really good and very entertaining. And i really hope you get more viewers and subscribers because you definetly deserve it.
With love, from Hungary
Yours sincerely Richard
Loved the explanation of the trolleys. Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes: "I tried one of these new discount supermarkets today. They were selling shopping trolleys for a pound. Brilliant!"
Mom: What did you do on your computer today son?
Me: I watched a person buy their groceries
Look I watch cleaning videos...a lot!🤣
Lol
I have a whole playlist
I told my kid I scored a rarity.
I got some tp today. An employee tried to hand me something bigger & I said thx but I'm not that crazy. I hope she didn't take it the wrong way. Also, yw next person.
I really enjoyed this video. Top notch. Love 3:43 that’s me! Crumpets and hot cross buns always take me ‘off-list’.
I had to explain to someone yesterday what a crumpet was. Philistines.
I love all AS videos but this is one of my favorites. Thank you for taking us shopping with you!
18 minutes of calm in a world of anxiety and unknowns. Thank you!
TJ Cosgrove The World is gonna end and I will steal Everything I want because the World is gonna End
Léandre Bonsaint The End is nearer
Léandre Bonsaint maybe
Léandre Bonsaint They May always have it in Russia 🇷🇺 and Former Soviet Territory that’s Phages
‘The pattern of things that people are buying is bizarre.’ 🤣🤣🤣
Agreed....
All the canned cat food... Gone. Wth.
@@lisapedersen8669 The cat ladies are ready.
The toilet roll baffles me, I use a bidet and wipe with a few sheets afterwards so I don't give a fuck
Covid19, take me! You won't get my cat!
"These onions grow in actual soil." Love you! And long live common sense!