smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Jul 2, 2020 13:09:28 GMT
I would lose my mind if I couldn't get my diet coke. I've cut back quite a bit, but that's also my preferred mixer in cocktails! The one thing I haven't been able to get is basmati rice. We have plenty of Indian grocery stores here but not super close to me and I'm lazy LOL! Will try to talk SO into going for me.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 2, 2020 13:14:11 GMT
Orzo pasta! Seriously, why orzo? I have a pressureluckcooking recipe I really want to try but I need orzo. I posted in my county's FB group asking about it and got several good leads, so today I'm going out to try to hunt some down. Sad when the highlight of my day is "Hunt for orzo, Target, TJ's". hahaha If you have a Trader Joe’s near you they sell a box of ‘pasta’ called risoni which is chickpea rice shaped item.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 2, 2020 13:16:24 GMT
My DH is a Coke distributor. They are having problems with aluminum here in Michigan because we haven't been able to recycle our cans. So they are limiting what they produce. And in addition, they keep revising routes all over the place because shutdowns affect consumption in certain places. Jeremy has had his routes reworked 3 times during covid. And right now he doesn't even have a dedicated route, he's basically doing improv going to places with shortages each day. Well if this thread is any indication he could do a pea route lol 😜 Yeah I know that’s not how it works but I’m having fun imagining it
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 13:21:40 GMT
I love cherry Coke. I only get it in the mini cans as I can never finish a regular can, let alone a bottle. It's been hard finding the mini cans of cherry Coke. Plus it's really good with Kraken rum. I've had to settle for regular Coke.
At least they've finally opened up the can returns in Michigan
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Post by hop2 on Jul 2, 2020 13:22:27 GMT
I can’t find Fresca either. It’s my favorite summer drink. I hope it’s temporary! m Fresca was difficult to find for years & years up here. I used to look forward to going to Fl to get my Fresca. They never stopped producing it totally but it wasn’t widely distributed where I lived. It came back shortly after they redesigned the look in 2005
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Post by jmd74 on Jul 2, 2020 13:30:13 GMT
Finding Strawberry Fanta has been hit or miss for weeks now. It’s my one “treat” per day and I need it!
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 2, 2020 13:41:59 GMT
Orzo pasta! Seriously, why orzo? I have a pressureluckcooking recipe I really want to try but I need orzo. I posted in my county's FB group asking about it and got several good leads, so today I'm going out to try to hunt some down. Sad when the highlight of my day is "Hunt for orzo, Target, TJ's". hahaha If you have a Trader Joe’s near you they sell a box of ‘pasta’ called risoni which is chickpea rice shaped item. The problem with that is that this recipe is cooked in a pressure cooker so I don't trust any gluten-free pasta, since the recipe calls for regular orzo. I've had a few GF pasta fails in the Instant Pot.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 2, 2020 13:44:06 GMT
I love cherry Coke. I only get it in the mini cans as I can never finish a regular can, let alone a bottle. It's been hard finding the mini cans of cherry Coke. Plus it's really good with Kraken rum. I've had to settle for regular Coke. At least they've finally opened up the can returns in Michigan Look for the bottles with the regular twist on/off cap. Then you can save the rest for the next day. I always do this, even with the mini bottles... once I put ice in my cup it fills up with about half of the mini bottle. I can't drink more than that at one time.
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Post by elaine on Jul 2, 2020 13:47:25 GMT
Oh and coke discontinued my favorite. The ginger lime diet coke. I got lucky and Jeremy was able to bring me 6 cases of it before it completely disappeared. So that's my first world problem. My fav will be gone forever once I drink my stash. Lol! If you go to a place that has Coke Freestyle machines you can get Ginger Lemon (my favorite) and Ginger Lime CF Diet Coke. So far my BK and Wendy’s haven’t been impacted (both have Coke Freestyle in the drive-thru in addition to store), so I get a large CF Diet Ginger Lemon in the drive-thru while I’m out and about.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 2, 2020 13:47:25 GMT
I haven’t been able to get diet Dr Pepper for about a month. Do you have Target near you? I was *just* there a few minutes ago -- where I found ORZO!! woo-hoo! -- and they had Diet Dr. Pepper! I was in that section specifically looked for CV Diet Coke for Elaine which is why I noticed the Dr. Pepper also.
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Jul 2, 2020 13:47:59 GMT
I haven't heard of any diet coke shortage. I can still get it around here. I don't buy it in the stores though so i haven't looked. I have one or two a month, but there's always been some at the convenience store when I pick up one. Do you like the fountain version?
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Post by elaine on Jul 2, 2020 13:53:16 GMT
I haven't heard of any diet coke shortage. I can still get it around here. I don't buy it in the stores though so i haven't looked. I have one or two a month, but there's always been some at the convenience store when I pick up one. Do you like the fountain version? We have plenty of Diet Coke in the stores here- just no Caffeine Free Diet Coke. I can’t drink extra caffeine beyond one cup of coffee in the morning or I can’t sleep and have palpitations. Getting old sucks. I do get CF Diet Coke thru Wendy’s or BK’s drive-thru when I’m out and about - I do love my CF Diet Coke at night watching TV with my dh, so the fountain option doesn’t work all the time.
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Post by elaine on Jul 2, 2020 13:57:11 GMT
Oh and coke discontinued my favorite. The ginger lime diet coke. I got lucky and Jeremy was able to bring me 6 cases of it before it completely disappeared. So that's my first world problem. My fav will be gone forever once I drink my stash. Lol! I didn't even know that existed but it sounds amazing! I love ginger lime everything! They have had ginger lime DC in the cans for a while, it is amazing. Even better, IMO, is Ginger Lemon CF Diet Coke. Interestingly the Ginger lemon and Ginger Lime are only available in CF Diet Coke in the Freestyle machines here in Virginia.
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Post by littlemama on Jul 2, 2020 13:57:49 GMT
Caffeine free Coke is impossible to find. Oddly, every tine the shipt shopper thinks they have it, it turns out to be diet!
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Post by elaine on Jul 2, 2020 14:03:24 GMT
This is just a vent. No need to try to talk me into giving up diet soda, because I don’t want to. 2 weeks ago 12 packs of cans of caffeine free Diet Coke disappeared from the grocery stores in Northern VA. So I bought the 6 packs of smaller bottles, because they had those. Not my preference for packaging, but I need my Diet Coke. Today I went to Target to pick up some bras I bought online for pickup and ran back to check for my CF Diet Coke and they are out of the bottles now too. CF Diet Coke is my drink of choice. I can make do with Sprite Zero, but I don’t want to. I was hoping that the cans would come back before the bottles ran out, but that apparently isn’t going to happen. I’m on the verge of a tantrum. Has COVID deprived you of a favorite food or beverage? Other than Costco 1/2 sheet cakes, that is, as we have recently covered that. Could have written your post except caffeine free diet Pepsi. I don't need it, but it's the one thing I just want. DS has/was starting to drink caffeine free (reg) Pepsi to to lose all that caffeine and that can't be (easily) found either. Weird. All the caffeine free stuff. I read somewhere about a carbonation/ CO2 shortage but why would that be caffeine free only? My older son drinks CF Diet Pepsi - I cant stand Pepsi, so it keeps our drinks separate - and it always is more of a challenge to find it here. In the past few weeks, I’ve found it in most of the stores, thankfully. I’m not sure what we will do when we can’t get either.
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Post by elaine on Jul 2, 2020 14:06:54 GMT
My DH is a Coke distributor. They are having problems with aluminum here in Michigan because we haven't been able to recycle our cans. So they are limiting what they produce. And in addition, they keep revising routes all over the place because shutdowns affect consumption in certain places. Jeremy has had his routes reworked 3 times during covid. And right now he doesn't even have a dedicated route, he's basically doing improv going to places with shortages each day. I hope that your dh understands how important his job is! Thank him for me. Seriously. CF Diet Coke is a part of my daily life and the fountain version is how I treat myself. Your husband makes a bigger impact on people’s lives than he may know.
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Post by bethany102399 on Jul 2, 2020 14:28:14 GMT
Caffeine free Coke is impossible to find Even when we're not in the middle of a pandemic, yes. When I was pregnant with both kids and needed to manage my caffeine intake I switched to CF regular coke. I can't taste the difference, but it became so hard to find I gave up and went back to regular coke after the kids were born. Our deal here is Doctor Pepper. it's DSs drink of choice and Costco has been out for weeks. I'm starting to see it out in the regular grocery stores as well. They also make our favorite brand of energy drink called Venom which is hard to find normally, but is now becoming impossible. The gas station which normally sells it to us says they haven't been able to get anything from their Doctor P distributor for weeks.
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Post by sabrinae on Jul 2, 2020 14:34:01 GMT
I haven’t been able to get diet Dr Pepper for about a month. I found diet Dr Pepper last weekend, but it was the first I had found in a while. So keep looking.
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Post by sam9 on Jul 2, 2020 14:47:20 GMT
I can’t get my Diet 7-Up at Costco (Canada) anymore. I have a friend who was so upset about not being able to find Diet Fresca (Texas) that she contacted Coca Cola. They confirmed to her that they’ve reduced their production lines down to favourites only.
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Post by Linda on Jul 2, 2020 14:49:08 GMT
Weird. All the caffeine free stuff. I read somewhere about a carbonation/ CO2 shortage but why would that be caffeine free only many companies are streamlining production to only the top-selling/most popular varieties - I'm guessing caffeine free is a niche product not a top seller
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Post by scraphappy0501 on Jul 2, 2020 15:08:27 GMT
many companies are streamlining production to only the top-selling/most popular varieties - I'm guessing caffeine free is a niche product not a top seller I work for a food company and when demand got crazy in March our company couldn't make product fast enough so the decision was made to only produce the top-selling SKUs to at least keep that pipeline going. We're just now starting to see a return to regular production in the next few months.
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Jul 2, 2020 15:09:43 GMT
I haven't heard of any diet coke shortage. I can still get it around here. I don't buy it in the stores though so i haven't looked. I have one or two a month, but there's always been some at the convenience store when I pick up one. Do you like the fountain version? We have plenty of Diet Coke in the stores here- just no Caffeine Free Diet Coke. I can’t drink extra caffeine beyond one cup of coffee in the morning or I can’t sleep and have palpitations. Getting old sucks. I do get CF Diet Coke thru Wendy’s or BK’s drive-thru when I’m out and about - I do love my CF Diet Coke at night watching TV with my dh, so the fountain option doesn’t work all the time. Oh! I missed that part. I have the same issue too. Can't really drink any after 2 p.m. -ish. Getting old DOES suck. lol
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Post by jubejubes on Jul 2, 2020 16:11:44 GMT
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 2, 2020 17:28:03 GMT
I saw a sign at the grocery store that there is an aluminum shortage and the soda companies are currently only making their most popular flavours. Also, apparently, there is a shortage of CO2 which obviously impacts the supply of carbonated beverages 🤷🏼♀️ nooooo!!! say it isn't so!!! I'm getting ready to do a cross-country drive; I *NEED* to have my Coke Zero and/or my Diet Dr. Pepper!! I'm going to the store right now!
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Post by teddyw on Jul 2, 2020 17:42:53 GMT
My dd asked the soda distributor at the grocery why certain kinds of pop weren’t available. He told her it’s because there’s an aluminum shortage or distribution so companies are making products that are more in demand.
Not an official release or anything just beverage truck driver & stocker.
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Post by belgravia on Jul 2, 2020 17:48:04 GMT
I saw a sign at the grocery store that there is an aluminum shortage and the soda companies are currently only making their most popular flavours. Also, apparently, there is a shortage of CO2 which obviously impacts the supply of carbonated beverages 🤷🏼♀️ nooooo!!! say it isn't so!!! I'm getting ready to do a cross-country drive; I *NEED* to have my Coke Zero and/or my Diet Dr. Pepper!! I'm going to the store right now! I’ve been able to find Coke Zero but no diet Dr Pepper, which is one of our favourites 😭
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Post by tc on Jul 2, 2020 17:51:21 GMT
My friend's son just got a job with Coke in the middle of March. This was after looking for a job for six months. He was laid off last because they don't have enough product coming in to the area that they need people locally to distribute it. He said before he was laid off he'd put a flat of cans on the retail store floor and they'd disappear before he could turn back around.
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Post by beepdave on Jul 2, 2020 17:59:11 GMT
I love cherry Coke. I only get it in the mini cans as I can never finish a regular can, let alone a bottle. It's been hard finding the mini cans of cherry Coke. Plus it's really good with Kraken rum. I've had to settle for regular Coke. At least they've finally opened up the can returns in Michigan I was a Cherry Coke junkie! I gave up pop last June (can't believe I've made it a year!) but sometimes a big ol' Cherry Coke sounds fantastic - not enough to drink one, but close! ;-)
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Post by janeliz on Jul 2, 2020 18:01:01 GMT
Finding Strawberry Fanta has been hit or miss for weeks now. It’s my one “treat” per day and I need it! That’s so funny that you mention that because I was wandering down the soda aisle at Target last week when I spotted some Strawberry Fanta and felt compelled to buy it. I haven’t had it in decades!
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Post by jmd74 on Jul 2, 2020 18:21:47 GMT
Finding Strawberry Fanta has been hit or miss for weeks now. It’s my one “treat” per day and I need it! That’s so funny that you mention that because I was wandering down the soda aisle at Target last week when I spotted some Strawberry Fanta and felt compelled to buy it. I haven’t had it in decades! It’s delicious but very sweet! I fill my large Yeti tumbler with ice, Fanta and sometimes add a mini can of sprite. Yum!
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