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French Toast Day
According to the “National Day Calendar“, today is National French Toast Day. They can’t verify who designated it as National French Toast Day, so we’ll just kind of go with it.
The Weather Outside Is Frightful
One of the many things associated with the holiday season, particularly up here in Pennsylvania, is snow!
And what happens when it begins to snow? Every grocery store and mini-market in the area gets cleared of milk, eggs and bread.
We’re all guilty of it, but none of us really knows what causes the sudden compulsion to make survival stores of French Toast. I mean, seriously. What’s up with the French Toast? What subconscious cultural memory forces us to rush to the store for milk, eggs and bread all of a sudden?
Panic Buying
Given that almost every day since Thanksgiving Day has centered around buying, it seems reasonable to look at the problem of “panic buying“.
Just as Black Friday and Cyber Monday are designed to trigger “impulse buying” and/or “compulsive buying” with all of the special deals, discounts, super-sales and the sociocultural hype surrounding it all, the sudden existential dread that we’ll all be left with dry cereal for breakfast and no eggs to bind our meatloaves is also a societal experience.
For some of us, just knowing that everybody is going to clean out the shelves and coolers of the grocery stores and mini-markets at the first snow flurry is sufficient stimulus to go out and try to beat them to it. For others, it’s just the communal experience of engaging of this most clichéd of cold-weather behavior.
Somehow, way down deep in the recesses of our lizard-brains, we’re fully anticipating something on par with the mega-blizzards of March 1888, January 1978 and February 1978.
Hopefully, we won’t be subject to a snowpocalypse any time soon but the dread remains that if we don’t get to the store before everybody else scarfs up all the important staples we’ll be eaten by bears or something.
An Ounce Of Prevention
It goes almost without saying that if one has a grasp of the weather forecast and a basic inventory of household food supplies, you needn’t worry about rushing to the store for milk, eggs and bread at the first sign of snow.
Keeping a backup supply of dry or shelf-stable milk, some powdered eggs and a bread-maker will give you peace of mind and a ready supply of what everybody else is sliding all around in the snow for.
Another thing that will give you peace of mind is looking at the situation rationally. Just because it’s flurrying, doesn’t mean we’re getting a huge blizzard. Check the forecast a few days in advance. If trouble seems to be looming on the horizon and the TV weather people are talking about snowmageddon, it still might not even come. Weather is very difficult to predict, even with satellites and computer models.
Fear not!
If there’s a storm coming and it’s likely to arrive, based on all the models, get your supplies before the snow starts falling and you’ll be just fine.
Package Protection Day
If you’ve decided not to run out and get the ingredients for French Toast, you might want to hang around home and make sure the stuff you’ve already ordered for delivery doesn’t get stolen from your doorstep.
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Being alert and keeping an eye on emails that specify your anticipated delivery times will help save you from the hassle of rude people hustling onto your property to steal your purchases. After all, they’re for your friends and relatives, not somebody else’s.