Human sacrifice... dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
According to THIS article in the LA Times, the U.S. is experiencing a pumpkin-pie-filling shortage due to poor weather that reduced last year's crop.
Libby's, who allegedly owns 80% of the canned pie filling market, (aren't there anti-trust laws to prevent that???) usually uses surpluses from the previous year to stock shelves.
Guess what? No surplus.
The article goes on to talk about people who had to go to three or four stores to find some.
We here at Halloween Addict take anything having to do with pumpkins VERY seriously so we've provided this "action list" for you to peruse.
What YOU can do:
1) Cry.
Sure it's selfish, but sometimes just letting it out makes you feel better.
2) Buy fresh pumpkins and make your own!
It's delicious!
It's fun!
It'll make you feel like a Pilgrim!
Seriously, save those jack o' lantern guts.
3) Hoard.
Find a bunch and then hold onto it 'til November when the Pumpkin King returns and canned Libby's pumpkin pie filling becomes currency. All hail Lord Humungus!
............... It could happen.
Lastly:
4) Enter the 21st century.
Why go to a store, when you can order online and a nice mail carrier or UPS person will bring it right to your door!
Look at this: I've found cases on sale at Amazon.com.
Go.
Buy.
Make pie.
4 comments:
Hmmmm....who would have thunk it? Pumpkin pie is the next hot thing on the Black Market! I think I will go check my local grocery store to see how scarce it is here. Do you think they could just by hyping it like the Swine Flu? The Libby people probably sent that press release out to all the newspapers to drum up business during the slump...ha!
Great post, laughed so hard I almost spit ice tea all over my monitor!!
I suddenly feel the urge for pumpkin pie.
must go.
get pie.
oh, and don't forget the whip cream!!!
Cheers!
Wendy: My conspiracy brain thinks this may be a Swine-Flu-like hype. But I haven't checked my local stores to verify.
Frog Queen: Ahhhhh the comedian's criterion of talent: the spit take.
Funny... We've got tons of it in where I work.
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