The best Y2K food tip yet

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Bought a large freezer last week and have been buying MacDonald's hambbergs and freezing them for next year. A week and a half ago I got this idea so I bought a hamberger and froze it in my frig. A day later I let it unfreeze and it was very good. Just thought I would pass on this great idea. This is my first post and I don't think I made any spelling mistakes. Next January it will be 20 below zero outside so if we loose power I still won't be in trouble.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999

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Good "thinking" Tim!......(just leave quietly and pretend you never came into this thread...tippie-toe, tippie-toe)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 14, 1999.

Maybe not the absolute best tip, but definitely a contender. Thanks. (Have you tried this with anything from Taco Bell yet?)

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.

Uh ... I'm speechless. Double Whoppers, here I come.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), June 14, 1999.

We don't have a Taco Bell up here. That's Mexican food, eh.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Tim, ahm, yes, it is.

BigDog - why didn't we think of this before? It was right before our eyes, all this time.....

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.



And. . .this little tip from the land of a temporary power outage a couple of weeks ago:

If power's out, you can warm up those burgers, burritos, whatever, with a two piece steamer (the ones that hold boiling water in the bottom pan, and a pan with holes in the bottom sitting on top of it capped by a lid) over a fire.

Watch out for freezer burn though! Wrap your stuff in aluminum foil before you freeze them. Foil is a better oxygen barrier than plastic.

:) :

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), June 14, 1999.


See, it is the best Y2K food tip yet, glad you agree.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

What about the fries? Can you do them too? Don't they get stale?

-- J (jart5@bellsouth.net), June 14, 1999.

BigDog - Do you have any extra storage room in your propane refrigerator for the rest of us that are electrically-challenged?

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), June 14, 1999.

You did not read all of my post. Next January it will be 20 degrees below zero up here. I will just take them out in the shed.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.


And thaw them under your grandma's armpits?

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.

Brooks -- don't be too envious. Glad to have it (if Y2K is, we hope, bust, will go in the remote cabin), but very expensive, very finicky and temperamental. Kind of like my wife (sounds of plates breaking against wall as I type). I'd better go now, my better half is yelling, I mean, calling!

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), June 14, 1999.

Thanks Tim but, uh, YUK!

mb in NC

-- mb (mdbutler@coastalnet.com), June 14, 1999.


Heck, it's worth a try. What can you lose but a freezerful of food?

There might be storm outages this fall and early winter -- maybe a backup genset would be a good idea.

If you're in bear country, remember they'll be foraging pretty heavily in late fall getting stoked up before they hibernate.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 14, 1999.


Is this Timm Raleigh Nelson??

-- yourpast (perhaps@home.com), June 14, 1999.


Tim,

Don't forget breakfast. Stock up on them eggie thingees too!!!

Hmmm, sounds like a good idea.

-- Ronald MacDonald (golden@rches.org), June 14, 1999.


I tried freezing the Egg McMuffins but they did not taste very good after they were unfrozen. I thought that was very funny about my grandmother but she is not with us anymore.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

I apologize, Tim.

So! How are you spending your summer vacation, so far? Enjoy these days while you can......

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.


I quit high school about 28 years ago and have not had a summer off since then. This is a very busy time up here at this time. It is raining very very hard up here right now that is why I am on line now.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Well - now we know what is in the White House freezers...CINC chef has probably already been done away with, covertly of course...

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.net), June 14, 1999.

Tim, I hate to break it to you, but you did make several spelling errors. And how do you freeze something in your "frig?" I'm assuming you meant freezer? Not trying to be rude, just responding to your remarks. Your idea sounds OK, and at least you're original. How did you heat the burger? If you used a microwave, did you completely thaw the burger first? I would be interested to know how the hamburgers taste after being frozen for about a month? Please come back and let us know. Thanks.

-- Gayla Dunbar (privacy@please.com), June 14, 1999.

The word frig is a short form for refrigarator, and ours has a freezer compartment were we keep our ice cubes. I only tried unfreezing one hamberger, because I do not want to waste any more until the new year. I took the hamberger out of the freezer box of the frig and let it unfreeze for several hours, then we heated up an iron frying pan and put the hamberger in and a lid on top of it, turned off the heat and about twenty minutes later we tried it. My wife said it was not as good as a real hamberger, but liked the idea of not having to cook if Y2K is bad. Well I had to talk her into that because we both like hambergers and there might not be any next January.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Well, let's budgetize this. An average Mickey D burger is going for about three bucks. If you were to fill up a 4x2x2" freezer, you could stockpile about 650 burgers. That's enough for two people for three months at one burger per meal, and will cost you roughly two grand, plus tax. Then there's the cost of the freezer.

But then there's sharing. If word gets out that you're munching cheeseburgers while everybody else is choking down ramen noodles, you may have "visitors". Are you going to have a decoy stash in the freezer compartment of your refrigerator of, say, White Castle burgers?

By the way, if you go into McD's and buy 20 burgers at a time and claim you're the bus driver, they'll give you one whole meal for free.

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.


We could never afford that much. Up here we have specials on hambergers. As for the freezer, one of the hunting camps was selling the one I bought at a really good price. They needed a much larger one because of all the Yanks coming up here his fall, or at least that is what he told me.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

How about making the burgers yourself and freezing them. The burger will be better and the meat won't be from a dingo.

-- SgtSchultz (SgtHansSchultz@Stalag13.com), June 14, 1999.

I am glad you people on this forum liked my food tip. I still think it is the best food tip yet, will remind you of the good old days, is very healthy, and is easy to store. It is almost 5:30 and I have to leave. I am in my ministers office and he does not believe in Y2K and would not be happy if he caught me posting on his computer. Sorry I made some spelling mistakes, I tried real hard not to.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

P.S. Since you liked this Y2K tip when I get a chance to get on this computer again I will give you a few more great Y2K tips, propably even better than this one.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Tim, it can't be 5:30. Nowhere you might post from, anyway....

Are you here to entertain?

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), June 14, 1999.


Well, y'knooow...

For the past few months and our local McD's have been having 29 cent hamburgers every Wednesday, and 39 cent cheeseburgers every Sunday. It may not be exactly what I was hoping to have for dinner on New Year's Day, but.... The only limitation is that a person is allowed to buy only 10 burgers per 'visit' each Wed or Sun. We have 3 of the joints within 20 miles, and all handy on a usual errand run, so for a little cash and a little planning, we could lay in quite a supply of the little cardboardwiches in a few weeks. If nothing else, we could feed them to the dogs...

-- Arewyn (nordic@northnet.net), June 14, 1999.


Read my watch wrong, it is now 10 minutes to five. Rev. Marshall said he would not be back until 5:45 so I still have some time for this forum. All the chances of wars sure makes you nervous.

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Is that aroma the smell of a troll?

-- SgtSchultz (SgtHansSchultz@Stalag13.com), June 14, 1999.

I do not consider myself a troll. I was just trying to help with a very good suggestion for Y2K. What is wrong with you?

-- TimNelson (TimNelson@freezeit.com), June 14, 1999.

Maybe because half the post on this thread are yours.

-- SgtSchultz (SgtHansSchultz@Stalag13.com), June 14, 1999.

Maybe Tim is responding as in a conversation.

-- h (h@h.h), June 14, 1999.

If that's the best y2k food tip, what on earth is the worst? Spam!

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 14, 1999.

Tim:

Burger after burger after burger can get boring. Be sure to stock up on milkshakes -- they hibernate as ice cream and can be thawed into slurpy wonders. You could also store some of those fruit pies for a la mode epicurean desserts.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), June 14, 1999.


Look people if Tim wants to store up hamburgers what is the big deal. At least he is trying. I know people that laugh at people like us who are preparing for their families. Now yes Tim is going about it in a unique way but so what. Get off the man's BACK. Go torture some of them pollys If you just feel the need to get on someones case.

-- Missy2k (timeisup@Webtv.net), June 14, 1999.

When I get Big Mac's to freeze, I always have them hold the letuce and pickles. They dont thaw will at all. Think you've stumbled upon a very gaurded secret of true survivalists, M.R.E.'s/Big Mac.Good Luck

-- Capt Dennis (souza@ptialaska.net), June 14, 1999.

You know, I think we have a winner of an idea here. The McDonald's Y2K Happy Meal!

Ready for freezing, it comes with a bottle of water, two not-so-hot off the grill burgers and equally room tempature fries to save energy required to freeze the delights. And it comes with useful Y2K gifts, say a couple of Band-Aids, a few feet of string or maybe a "tuna-can" candle. Maybe an adult-sized version would be Super-Sized and have Big Macs or Quarter-Pounders and would have premium gifts like a three-pack of canning jar lids.

Any corporate promoters know how to flesah out such an idea and sell it to Micky Disease's?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), June 14, 1999.


WW:

LOL! During the next McDonald's beanie baby deal you can request real beans (pinto, navy, lima) inside your beanie baby included with your Y2K Happy Meal. Limit one per visit.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), June 14, 1999.


To All:

I make a lot of mistakes, So, Overlook please:

Here is what I am trying to do in my part of the country to get through Y2K.

I'm trying to find a farmer with milk cows and help him in some way to get milk when the shelves are bare.

I'm trying to find some one with large fuel tanks so I will have fuel if needed.

Buying tools and seeds to help peole garden when the time comes on a work share basic.

Things like this I am now trying to wrap up before TSHTF. I'm prepared to work and help with expenses for shares.

The problem is finding these things from people that think Y2K is a big deal. Most think I just got out of bug house. The gov. and Gates would never let something like this happen they say.

Was talking to one fellar that has some land he dose't use. Wanted to rent enough for a garden. He looked me in the eye and said all you freaks are doing nothing but causing trouble for your neighbors, You all are crazy and if y2k happens, I will kiss your a***s. So I pulled my pants down and said please do it while it is summer.I don't want to have to do this when its 20 below.

No joking, Maybe its just that I'm a 10 and I try too hard to try to get people to make all the connections. This guy was not old enough to have lived through the depression and from all the land he owns left to him by daddy, and he has lived off all his life. Selling lots.

Sometimes I think maybe I have just gotten out of the biney loon. Except when K-mart stores goes down for two days during a sale and people won't even let you through the line to leave, Afraid you might sneak in front of them. What a world.

My wife says quit doing this or Y2K may come earlier than I want it to. Honest to God, There are three churches within walking distance from where I live. And everyone of them thinks if they believe in a Y2K, That God is going to send them all to ....? One paster said if you are so concerned about Y2K, and have so little faith in God, Send us over a sack of beans and we will see that the people get them.

Again What a world?

Iv'e seen the light. And taken my wifs advice.

Lon

-- Lon (Lon1937@aol.com), June 14, 1999.


How is anything that depends on a FREEZER, a good Y2k food tip?

So suppose you get a genset to run the freezer? A cardinal rule of alternative energy is stay away from using it for heating or cooling because it's very inefficient; and no-one wants to have to run their genset 24/7 anyway, only just long enough to power selected devices as needed.

OK, this is a fun thread, but does this really make any sense? :-)

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), June 14, 1999.


Your tip stinks! My neighbor did the same a few years ago when a hamburger place sold hamburgers for 25 cents. He bought over a hundred. The big problem is... bread is very suseptible to FREEZER BURN! In about 3 months it gets very dry and hard! In fact it becomes impossible to eat! It gets hard as a rock! HAVE FUN EATING YOUR ROCK HARD MACS IN 2000!!!

-- freddie (freddie@thefreeloader.com), June 15, 1999.

Instead of buying fast food hamburgers, I am canning hamburger patties. Got to have some kind of hamburger! We tried one jar, and they weren't bad at all. Just won't have the good hamburger buns. Oh well, Burger King it ain't!

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), June 15, 1999.

Buy a cow. Then you will have steaks, too!

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), June 15, 1999.

Got Pepto Bismal?

-- sue (deco100@aol.com), June 15, 1999.

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