yes of course you can buy flour from the mill where do you think restaurants and bakeries and cafeterias buy flour from. are we going to fred meyers and filling up 400 little dinky bulk bags a day. no we are not. christ
a lot of shit we buy in ways normal people can't buy. or you can but you have to like be married to a chef or have worked in a bar or something, you can't just call charlie's and be like "i want 6 tomatoes"
that woman calling the cops on bob's is just hugely showing her ass. earn the right the bake by acknowledging our special skillset. film a video where you say aloud "i don't understand how commercial food distribution works" and i'll mail you flour
i'm sorry if that seems mean but it's kind of mean to pay me minimum wage until i'm 32 and then swan in and demand to know how to do my job while i'm gone. i buy the things because you can't be bothered to buy the things normally. be nicer
i'm sorry idk what to tell you. if you want a pallet of celery you're welcome to go in on my professional order. you're paying a premium usually for the privilege of "not having to deal with a pallet of celery" and i'm really not happy to teach you how in a crash course for free
buying produce like we do sounds really fun and cool and like a good way to save money until you have to cook like we do. do you have a walk-in? can you lift an 80 quart pot? do you want to know what pantry moths are? i promise you don't
in my home kitchen, i have two commercial fridges and a stand-alone freezer. i also can hundreds of jars a year, i dehydrate, i pickle, i bake my own bread, make my own vinegar, raise my own eggs, meat, veg, furs, wool, honey. I DONT BUY COMMERCIAL VOLUMES OF WHEAT
because that's TOO MUCH
my boyfriend is a commercial import/export person for high end culinary commodities and we still don't buy in those volumes. i've been "prepping" for the cascading quake for a decade and we still done buy in those volumes. they would ROT and there's no way around it
i own a cider press and i still wouldn't buy flour in those volumes. if someone who owns a cider press tells you that something is unreasonable just listen to them
i wouldn't be able to handle those volumes. i own a BARN. none of the buckets from the walmart pastry counter have lids that seal tight enough, no matter what reddit preppers say. you can't bury it. you can't string it in a tree like for bears
i used to live in close every day proximity to bears and they were far less of a threat to my food security and general security than pantry moths and rats. a bear moves slow, can't see in the sunlight, and thinks you stink, and will dive in a river to avoid you
even mormons agree with me on this. mormons of course believe prepping is some sort of godly thing. you won't catch a mormon woman with 50lbs of flour just hanging out in her kitchen with no plan for preservation. she could have 37 kids and she'll say "no thanks"
sometime i'll take you on a tour of the elaborate food presentation systems we have in place here and you'll say "wow that's a lot of pickles" or "what the fuck do you plan to eat in early spring" (beets) or "what humanure" but you won't catch me with 50 damn lbs of flour lmao
*preservation
anyway idk. take a class. ask a question. be a little human. i'd always thought my role in a disaster would be helping people learn quickly and practically to preserve food but now i find y'all are so annoying i don't want to
i guess i want to help normal people who are like "help why is my celery rotting in the ground" (celery is too hard to grow at home: plant lovage) but these people who's first impulse is to accuse *MY INDUSTRY*

of HOARDING?!??

... fuck OFF!!!!
you think the people who have been feeding you every day of your fucking lives are starving you now? interesting! i wonder what it is about us that makes us untrustworthy to you
i guess what i'm saying is that i have a huge loyalty to all humanity and a beating heart full of earnest love but if you insinuate again that cooks, brewers, dairy workers, farmers, hands or millers are CHEATING YOU SOMEHOW

then you do not deserve our help, and good luck
lmao i'll still help you tho. i will. i'm sorry i have no spine here. i'll always help you. we all will always help you. that's why we got into this business in the first place, we love feeding you and we hate paperwork. we have fed you all for 1000 years
that's so fucking mean tho. come on. if i had wanted to starve you i would have starved you a long time ago. if you're just now realizing there's a choke point in your food supply line your first response shouldn't be to aggravate the people with their finger on the button
there's a certain amount of pride in cooking for you and since you assholes voted for everything reagan ever wanted that pride is all we have. we make like $4 and we have no health insurance. don't cross us. we love you, let us feed you, don't accuse us of doing the opposite
cancel me for owning two fridges like nancy pelosi if you must, it's a habit i picked up back home when we had several barn freezers full of salmon and blueberries because we lived nearly two hours from town
that's very common with rural people. i'm sure most of you know that already and understand the difference between that and two $1200 ice cream crypts built into your apartment. mine are True brand and they cost $800. one is full of seed potatoes i stand before you cancelled
anyway it doesn't matter, she's being dishonest, she knows precisely where the flour is and she knows precisely how many food industry votes are available to her: none. it's a lie told for specific ears and not worthy of my anger
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