A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

Post by klipt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:28 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #33

pengaru wrote: post #19

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On what planet does anybody pivot to eating home-baked bread without consuming substantially more of it?

If it works, it's delicious and you end up eating heaps more than usual. If your first two or three attempts a baking bread fail, then you end up becoming one of those people with 85% of a 20lb bag of flour in the cupboard waiting for the weevils to move in... (The temp calibration on my oven is way out. Doesn't matter too much for roasting chickens or cooking lasagne, but baking is more temperamental than that, and…

Post by elipsey » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:42 AM UTC

EE84M3i wrote: post #76

dx87 wrote: post #5

That's actually how a lot of businesses in rural parts of Alaska work, even places that don't require a boat or plane to access. My dad lives right off the highway in a small town in Alaska, and the closest thing to a grocery store is an old airplane hanger that one of the locals runs a general store out of. The owner makes weekly trips to Costco, which is ~4 hours away, and buys as much as they can fit into a big U-…

What causes a town not large enough to support a grocery store to have a U-Haul rental?

Post by bitcoinmoney » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

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Indeed: even if you get a ship for free, the crew is not free. Unless you're a certified captain already, you probably can't just operate the ship yourself. Also, now you have to pay for maintenance, fuel, mooring, loading and unloading cargo, etc. I suspect that $3k is not sufficient to start and sustain such an operation, so some steps are clearly missing. (Can't help but remember Grim Fandango, where a similar tra…

My favourite example is Roman Abramovich, who somehow made the transition from reselling rubber ducks from his apartment in 1991 to having $100M to buy an oil company worth $3B, to obscene oligarch wealth a decade later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich

Post by ars » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

klipt wrote: post #101

bigiain wrote: post #33

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If it works, it's delicious and you end up eating heaps more than usual. If your first two or three attempts a baking bread fail, then you end up becoming one of those people with 85% of a 20lb bag of flour in the cupboard waiting for the weevils to move in... (The temp calibration on my oven is way out. Doesn't matter too much for roasting chickens or cooking lasagne, but baking is more temperamental than that, and…

You can still make crepes or roti on your stovetop, or porridge in your microwave. No need to let the flour go to waste.

Post by Scoundreller » Mon, May 04, 2020, 5:06 AM UTC

mattigames wrote: post #48

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I think the joke is that people that start fresh baking bread at home start eating a lot more of it because it’s delicious.

Specialy given making bread better than the store is very likely, my father used to be a baker and has told me how stores use a yellow coloring to make it look like bread has lots of eggs but it has near none, or how they push yeast to the limit where bread gets the most air inside possible to make it look big, or how they buy the cheapest butter and so on.