Comments on: Why Milk and Bread?

By: SNOMG, damnit! » We Love DC

SNOMG, damnit! » We Love DC — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:14:02 +0000

[...] snowed in for yet another weekend? Not this guy. Still, it seems inevitable. So, make a run on milk and bread and find some sweet board games, or something. I don’t think you’ll be going anywhere [...]

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:09:36 +0000

Yeah, you’re right. When I write on auto-pilot, my mind says “that sounds nice” without actually putting meaning to a particular phrase. Correcting to “in light of”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:03:20 +0000

I think it’s because of habits: milk and bread are two things that people are used to having to stock up on in the middle of the week. So when they find themselves shopping on a day that’s not their normal shopping day, they automatically go for milk and bread.

Also: in lieu of the storm, stores have been running out of “essentials” like milk and bread.

This word, “in lieu,” I do not think it means what you think it means.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:45:27 +0000

Perhaps because those are the two food products that go bad most often.

The tp is a new phenomenon.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:22:43 +0000

Ok, so I always thought this was ridiculous until I opened my fridge yesterday morning and thought of all the things I could make IF I ONLY EFFING HAD MILK. I thought of five things that needed milk, and wound up eating cheesy polenta (with water, ew) and broccoli, when I could have had nice honey muffins or lovely fresh baked scones.

By: Arlington Aaron

Arlington Aaron — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:08:58 +0000

Easy: Because you can melt the snow with milk, and shovel the streets with toilet paper. Duh.

By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:30:28 +0000

I used to work at Giant Food for years and we called the run on milk, bread, eggs, and toilet paper to be, “French Toast and Diarrhea Season.”

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:04:45 +0000

I am originally from upstate NY, so I too laughed at all the milk and bread (and toilet paper) stories. But, much to my surprise, on Friday, I found myself stocking up on milk and bread (and eggs). The roomie and I were out of both. We need the bread for PB&J sammichs as well as for toast. We wanted to make cocoa, and thus needed milk. The eggs and milk were also for the pancakes we knew we’d be making.

That’s my take on the phenomena.

By: Tiffany Bridge

Tiffany Bridge — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:28:20 +0000

Because those are the two things almost everyone keeps in their house and hates running out of. Not everyone needs canned tomatoes or frozen pizza.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:12:05 +0000

Anything can go between two slices of bread.

And milk does a body good.

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:56:31 +0000

We Southerners like our French toast.