And how much of it gives a notable amount of nutrition? Ooph, that’d be rough. After awhile you’d start going through your stores faster but it woudn’t pack the same punch as before.
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There’s also dog pack mentality. I have to eat all of this as fast as possible so the others don’t get any.
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I was literally typing this out 
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Yeah. There’s also the concern of effective rationing, some food goes bad faster than other after all. One thing worth noting here though, is that I would not expect it to be fast. It’s easy to forget, but stores ship around a lot more food than is strictly necessary for any given area, due to a combination of competition and waste. This along with the amount people keep in their homes, plus any actual food stores lead me to expect at least in America a relatively long period before starvation sets in. That’s without considering the possibility of wide spread death in an apocalyptic scenario, or the tendency for foodstores to accumulate much like you’d expect money to in a capitalistic system.
In plainer terms, I wouldn’t expect starvation to kill as many people as people afraid of starvation.
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Apologies for side-tracking a topic I brought up, but how do you pronounce your username?
I’ve been sticking to the silent J: “yeh-fay”
But there’s also “jeh-fay”, “gee-fee”, or “jeff-y”
mix and match, which is it?
Jeh
Yeh
Jay
Fay
Feh
Fii
??
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DONT ANSWER THAT. LET US LIVE IN MYSTERY
lowercase to please the lord Discourse
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The Spanish way : as in El Jefe (heh-fay).
You’re welcome to say it phonetically though as it’s my actual name…just with a “G”.
Sorry @Kitty_Jo - too late - can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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I just say jeff lol
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I was mentally pronouncing it phonetically. Mildly amusing.
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Challenge accepted
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Really - both work. It’s beautiful isn’t it… ingenious really.
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actually it was a nickname - I didn’t come up with it. I needed an alias ASAP when I joined. First thing I thought of.
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OH NO
I MESSED IT UP
yelling but not yelling so i can yelling
@Jefe Really, I’m glad it’s a silent J. I was doing it wrong, but I like knowing I was close to the correct pronunciation.
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I dunno. Some packaged food is really gross. Like sandwiches in a can. The first few waves of marauders and tribal orders would pass before stuff got to Canwich desperate.
Ok, so your question reminds me tangentially of a ridiculous Italian exploitation film I watched a few days ago. I think it was directed by Bruno Mattei, who you may remember from Night of the Zombies aka Hell of the Living Dead, and a knockoff version of Jaws which lifts clips from every other famous shark movie.
Anyway this one was called Rats: Night of Terror and it was intruigingly weird because pretty much the first half of the film was dedicated to set up a post-apocalyptic world in immense detail. There’s a text crawl explaining the different social movements and revolutions that happened after the bomb, loads of effort goes into explaining the political status of the characters in this vast world, and we see them discovering this advanced and - you assume - scientific technology designed to preserve food in the apocalypse. This is so baffling because when all this is set up it has nothing to do with the actual story, which is just about a group of people in a building with rats. Literally nothing else happens. You could cut out the entire intricate first part of the film and set it in any environment.
My vision of the post-apocalypse, shaped by the noble efforts of Cormac McCarthy and JG Ballard, has once again been taken to weird new places by the Italians.
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I guarentee that canwich would look like a juicy filet mignon in apocalyptic times.
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1: I want to say Candwich looks gross, but I can’t convince my brain of the fact. I’d fight somebody for one of those.
2:
By the time I got to this and saw the following paragraphs I started cheering, never stop being Hattie.
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Whenever I see Candwich, I always think of that one video that WrecklessEating made years ago.
or canned bread:
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Skipped through the video, stopped when I heard the words “laffy taffy gel.”
I take it back.
A friend was looking up Trump campaign factoids a couple days ago, apparently they played The Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” at one of them.
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Seriously? have you people never read Michael Grant’s Gone series? It’s literally this.