Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-27 12:21 p.m., Carol wrote:
 

It's rare in my own experience to be a real 'prepper' unless I think
it's Mormon's who seem to aim to have a lot of drygoods?  I'm not
saying that the mormons all do that but it's not terribly uncommon
to have 3-6 months in a pinch.

 
It is odd to think of Mormons canning tons of fruit because the
process usually involves a lot of sugar and they tend to avoid sugar.
Perhaps there is some other process they use.

I just know they have a reputation to aspire to have a bigger than
normal backlog of shelf stable things. On fruit, maybe they dehydrate
it like I do with apples? No sugar used then at all.

Jim Yeller who lives in Yellowknife Canada
says common there but it's more of a unique 'store for summer' as
the trucks can't get through when the ice bridges melt.  Winter,
they just truck up on the frozen rivers.

Oh, they get some stores in summer but they are tucked in corners while
more needed things (medical stuff?) are flown in.  Some limited
hothouses were around but no real details on them.

 
It's hard to imagine the distances that people and goods have to
travel up there. Roads are not feasible because so much of the land
is covered in water..... moose pasture.  Ice roads are the answer.
They only have to wait until the ice is well nice and thick and then
plow the snow off.
 

 
Google and you'll see the ice trucks.  Even a TV show about them.
Dave Smith might know more?

There are TV shows about them.  I can tell you that they are almost
as far from me as they are from you.

Yup, he's the farthest North person I know.  He was in the Fidonet
cooking echo.  He left it as I was transiting back stateside.