I'd quite happily eat that for dinner!
The biggest problem with this stupid hoarding behaviour is that it's self-fuelling. Those who wouldn't consider hoarding unnecessarily see that there's been no toilet paper in stock at their local supermarket for the last three days and end up buying three packs just in case the nutters keep on stocking up.
The recursive end of that is houses overflowing with toilet paper from the top floor windows!
I popped to the supermarket yesterday for herbs, grapes and olives - all of which I managed to get. It was notable though that what I'd seen a week ago had got worse, with eggs, chocolate and sweets, and any kind of canned goods now added to the list of things that were 90% empty or worse.
As before, still loads of fresh fruit and vegetables. Clearly the average citizen (1) doesn't eat vegetables and (2) doesn't buy them. Which is fine from my point of view because I can survive for a long time on vegetables alone without feeling deprived. I will however feel deprived once I run out of tinned tomatoes and pasta, not necessarily for consumption together, if I can't get some more before I do. Ditto cheese.
Currently the house is filling with the smell of the Chicken stock that's cooking, made from the carcase of the chicken that I butchered earlier (and quickly roast before dumping in the stock). Tomorrow that gets combined with the chicken meat, garlic, olives and tomatoes, slow cooked, and served up with lots of veggies for dinner.
I am not going to starve.
I do get the point about recursive infectious hoarding, because I had to convince SWMBO that it's still sane enough that we shouldn't make ourselves into
part of the problem by getting loads more than we need when we go shopping on Thursday even if it feels that other people are forcing us into it. Give it a week or two more and people won't have anywhere to put anything more that they buy - it has to get sane again sometime soon.