Prepping said:
So many of us are worried that given massive hunger the mobs will want to take our dried beans, pasta and rice.
Uh, no...imagine the reception someone would have received during Katrina's aftermath if they handed out dried beans, lentils, pasta, rice, and seasonings. The mob wouldn't just not touch it, they'd become violently angry as they're entitled to ready made foods.
BadgeBunny said:
I saw this first hand. Some of the Katrina survivors wound up at a makeshift facility not far from my home here in Oklahoma. They threw an absolute FIT when they were served MREs ... The local fast food restaurants that were within walking distance of their facility all closed up for the week as they were sick and tired of the "refugees" coming in and begging. When they wouldn't feed them for free then they start tearing stuff up and the police would have to be called out. Tons of vandalism happened after hours (that didn't happen before and hasn't happened since).
One of the gals who worked at a grocery store near my home lived in an apartment complex down that way. Said she couldn't let her kids play outside for the beggars threatening them and she didn't answer her door unless her friends called her from their car when they were in her parking lot because of people trying to intimidate her into giving them all kinds of stuff ...
THANK GOD, my neighborhood was a little too far away for those dolts to walk to. I would have hated to have had to turn the dogs out on them.
Pretty disgusting, if you ask me. Our service men and women eat those same MREs and live in a LOT worse conditions than those folks were put up in.
My god! Posts like these remind me once again why i'm here in this forum! I'm living in so different country, but i know we are following your foot steps right behind you. Just wait couple years (to the next generation) and we are there.
I just cannot believe how people arent happy with MRE's! Heck they could be without anything to eat at the worst and they would have to beg and still starve because there just isn't food around!
Here people still understand that they just cannot go and beg food or raid places... Specially if they already have MRE's... They would just sit happily in emergency shelter and eat their MRE's and talk how it is good when things work and they have blanket over their shoulders and MRE in their hands.
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But in the other hands, we are old fashioned country and we still have people alive who have seen war and had to escape from their homes and never go back. When our grannies saw the war and raise their children, even next generation after that got that knowledge and way of life. That make things goes their right perspectives.
But like i said, generations after my generation are too far from our wars and living in poorness... Our generation got taste of modern day life and didn't raise their children too well because war and poorness was something from past.
We are soon there where you are in today, so better keep reading and learning.
We are growing new generation and very soon they are adults and leaders of this country.
When we talk about Katrina, I would say if mob don't touch canned food or MRE's, they arent hungry enough. They can still be picky and demand better and tastier food... But that are just simple stupidity! They don't look to the future and where things can develope. Every meal is one meal forward.
I have seen poornes and i still live under the poverty line. I know what it is when you don't know if you can pay your next month rent or buy food... And i dumpster dived my food many years because i didn't have money to buy food after i paid my rent. Still today if i get sick, i don't maybe have money to go to see a doctor... And i'm living in the country of "free healtcare system..." (yeah it still isn't free.)
If someone would give me MRE right now, i would just accept it and eat it happily because it is one free meal for me. It would save me money what i would spend to buy food for some another day. (yeah i don't drink booze or party either, because that would be just waste of money what i don't have.)
That put things in their right perspective. IF someone offer you canned food or MRE during S situation, accept it and be happy because of that. You never can know if there is next MRE's comming! IF you are demanding warm food or hamburgers or something better, you are just picky and don't look into the future. Because when there is bigger situation around, even if you have all the money in the world, you still maybe don't get any food.
When we talk about moral, food is one big moral boosted indeed. When you have it, it ease your stress. If food is nicely prepared, it is always more pleasure to eat.
More ways you know how to prepare your meal, more possibilities it also give you.
But ofcourse during s situation even if you eat straight from the can cold food, it is pleasure to eat because you have it and it is another meal forward. :thumb: