| | | Re <<Can you order Pizza delivered w/o an id ?>>
(1) ... short answer is 'yes'
(2) longer answer is that what cereal is not needed to be anti-fragile against Covid can be used for anti-fragile against war inflation
turns out my early panic was just-in-time caution, w/r to rice, canned food, gasoline, and unmentioned but of course palladium, crude, and gold
current order of battle, in car and shop-fresh sealed cartons
- gasoline shall last until at least year-end as am only making one 3 km journey per week
- rice should last until year-end unless we donate some to friends as special gift
- vermicelli, spegetti, flour, etc should last out through summer
- canned goods good for 30-days
- liquid coffee, tea leaf, hot chocolate drink mix good for awhile
- toilet paper good for perhaps 2 quarters, unless we restrict the household to only use the Japanese-made smart toilet, in which case 8 - 12 quarters
We are good to go go go :0)))))
Post below back in early February, and we are doing first-in--first out protocol w/r to the store, and have since moved my mom (her place is 12-min away by walking) to my place to further ease logistics
rice pricing sharply rose and rising all around the world, and for enough stores in HK have gone unobtainium. The sovereign is taking care of HK which I trust previously less-than-grateful HK shall appreciate that UK is no longer the sovereign
Message 33701894
bloomberg.com
Rice Soars as Ukraine War Starts Scramble for Any and All Grains
Michael Hirtzer
4 March 2022, 06:36 GMT+8
Rice is the latest commodity to get swept up in the turmoil of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Prices for rice are surging because traders are betting it will be an alternative for wheat, which is becoming prohibitively expensive. Exports of wheat from Russia and Ukraine account for more than a quarter of the crop’s trade worldwide and a fifth of corn sales. Shipping in the Black Sea region is already engulfed in chaos.
“Everyone’s trying to buy every type of starch they can,” said Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist at StoneX. “With wheat supplies tightening up dramatically on the world market, you’re going to see demand shifting to rice to fill that need to feed people.”
Everything from wheat to oil to fertilizer is soaring as the war ramps up fears of supply-chain shakeups. That’s further exacerbating inflation worries at a time when hunger emergencies are on the rise.
Rice jumped as much as 4.2% to $16.89 per 100 pounds, the highest since May 2020. The staple grain is also heading for an 11% weekly gain, the most since 2018.
In a bright spot, global supplies of rice are plentiful, with bigger exports coming from India, the biggest exporter, and world stockpiles forecast to increase by 0.4 million tons. In the U.S., spring planting is underway in southern Louisiana and along the Texas coast, half of which will be exported to the world market. |
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