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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Thu Feb 2, 2017, 08:53 AM Feb 2017

Bacon shortage not so after all

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38836782

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Bacon shortage not so after all (Original Post) shenmue Feb 2017 OP

The manufactured panic of an unverified bacon shortage no_hypocrisy Feb 2017 #1

Smithfield Packing in Tarheel NC processes 30,00 pigs a day underpants Feb 2017 #2

no_hypocrisy

(46,182 posts)

1. The manufactured panic of an unverified bacon shortage

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Thu Feb 2, 2017, 08:56 AM

Feb 2017

reminds me of 1973 when Johnny Carson made a joke during his monologue of a toilet paper shortage.

My father purchased three giant boxes of toilet paper as he believed it was gospel. (Yes, my father was a republican and believed stuff that scared him.)

underpants

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2. Smithfield Packing in Tarheel NC processes 30,00 pigs a day

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Thu Feb 2, 2017, 09:58 AM

Feb 2017

Yep. 30,000 each day.

And, as they say, nothing is wasted. They'd packagethe squeal if they could.

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