Thursday, May 5, 2016

Yes, we have no bananas

Went to Dairy Queen and was told that they don't put cherries on their sundaes because there is a maraschino cherry shortage.  I can live with that.  But then more shortages started to appear!

Next shortage we encountered was a particular printer cartridge we needed.  Another shortage, only the Office Max guy told us it was a "worldwide" printer cartridge shortage.  Hmmmmmm.

Then we were at Subway for a quick lunch and asked for banana peppers on my sandwich.  I got the longest story from my sandwich artist (that's what they call themselves) about the fact that there was a worldwide banana pepper shortage!!  Really??  I just bought a bottle of them at the grocery store.  Maybe the shortage is why Olive Garden has limited the number of peperoncini  in their all-you-can-eat salad to TWO!  Yep, just two peppers per bowl per table.  Count them sometime if you order that.  Pray that you never have 3 people at your table all vying for a peperoncini. 
 The shortages did not end there.  We ordered the Cavs Game Pack meal at McDonalds which comes with 2 sandwiches, 2  packs of McNuggets and a boatload of fries with nacho cheese drizzled over the fries.  EXCEPT, we were told that they were out of nacho cheese.  I didn't ask if there was a worldwide nacho cheese shortage because I just couldn't take it if there was. What would people do at baseball games or carnivals with NO NACHO CHEESE??? 

Now I'm thinking there might be a conspiracy of some sort.  Let me know if you have also experienced any worldwide product shortages.  I'll start putting a list together. 

Apparently there was a worldwide banana shortage back in the 1930's when this song was first written.  Performed here by the Pasadena Rooftop Orchestra.