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scary stuff out of Europe. In the event of a prolonged outage would be scary. Especially if I'm in the city when it occurs. Seems like my campers gas fridge might work but my solar cuts out when the grid goes down and no battery. To say nothing of water as well.
This is why I eat a lot of carrots.
So I can guard my single backup can of baked beans in the dark.
Sadly, the carrot thing is a myth. Deliberately spread by the British government during the war, no less, as an explanation for why they could track German bombers in the dark without letting on that they'd invented radar.
Carrots were one of the few foods it was easy to get lots of. Many fascinating recipes for carroty marmalade!
TIL! and that's really interesting.
The baked beans remain at risk!
The government released a whole pile of food related PSAs at the time, telling people about substitutions they could make, thrifty ways to stretch rations further or clever recipes that used food they could get easily in place of using imports.
The "Ministry of Food" put in a ton of work. I've got a cookbook that recreates a lot of their material. It's very carrot-heavy!
What is this cookbook called?
The Ministry of Food by Jane Fearnley Whittingstall
Thankyou, I'm interested in retro cooking and historical recipes so I'll check this out at some point.
Itβs only a dinky wee little book, but within the specific sphere of historical intheresting itβs quite good. Not strictly a cookbook - thereβs a decent section on how to start (and what to include in) a victory garden
The only reasonable solution is to keep a cache of weapons and pick off the weakest neighbours in a time of crisis.
I suggest pensioners as they will have good stock of blankets and canned foods. Also, decent tools and such.
Work your way up the ladder of weakness and you'll be fine.
I keep a large wooden sword under my bed for this exact purpose. Course if the neighbor has a wooden pen I might be in trouble.
The penis mightier definitely
Dunno. Havnt seen his so really cant compare haha
Stop wasting time then!!!
nahhh. people react SUPER weird when I say "yo, show us your dick"
We have a gas stove so I guess I could cook, and use candles for light, but no heating or fridge. Would need to eat boiled rice and ration what little canned items I have until power is restored. Rice with tuna and canned peaches?
mind if I have the canned peaches for desert rather than as the main?
water for your rice could also be an issue.