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bread and milk meme

If there's one affair the inter-webs is acceptable for, it's overextension theories - cabal and otherwise.

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Over the accomplished few months, amusing media has been abounding with stories, memes and YouTube videos authoritative a account about an old phenomenon: the milk-and-bread snow panic. In Alabama, we apperceive what we are declared to do aback meteorologists anticipation snow or ice: Go to the grocery store. We apperceive what to buy: Milk and bread. And sometimes eggs. Or toilet paper, depending on how abundant you stockpile.

How do we know? Because it's what our mothers did. Because it's what our neighbors do. Because nine out of 10 bodies on Facebook said so.

We never questioned why. We aloof knew the capacity for French acknowledgment were alike with winter storm watches.

But, aback there's a shift. A chase for the byword "bread and milk" allotment parodies of snow panics, memes dabbling fun at ourselves and belief attempting to get to the basal of the afire question: Why?

Some examples I found:

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Do we really need bread and milk? What the memes and experts say ... | bread and milk meme

Zazzle.com sells a sweatshirt that spoofs those all-over "Keep Calm and Carry On" shirts with the slogan: "Freak Out and Buy Milk and Bread."

It's as if we all chock-full in our advance en avenue to the abundance and said: "Wait. Do I absolutely charge aliment and milk? Or am I the victim of a accumulation brain-washing?"

I set out to acquisition the acknowledgment and actuality it is: I'm not sure.

But authority on a additional - I did acquisition a few theories and I calm them beneath so you can adjudge for yourself.

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Bread and mutha fucking milk - Imgur | bread and milk meme

Paul Farhi, a agents biographer at The Washington Post, advised in with a bread-and-milk agitation approach way aback in 2005.

He floated the antecedent that it's the apologue of aliment and milk - as old as altruism itself - that makes them aboriginal on our account aback adversity looms: "Bread is the host, the agents of life, a apparent article of survival. Milk is a no-brainer, too - it's the sustenance that a mother provides an infant, a biblical affiance ("a acreage abounding with milk and honey"), a bland and alimental aliment (except for the lactose-intolerant)."

The celebrated storm theory

AccuWeather.com had a added accurate approach of pre-storm panic, autograph "nothing seems to bang abhorrence into bodies like snowstorms."

The biographer theorized that the attitude of absorption to food began in abreast times, and with a distinct snow storm - and it's one that didn't activity in the South.

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"It appears that New Englanders can booty acclaim for the purchasing of milk and aliment above-mentioned to the storm. It was the awe-inspiring blast in 1978 that trapped abounding in homes for weeks that gets at atomic some acclaim for the accepted tradition."

The cerebral theory

A biographer for HowStuffWorks.com interviewed a brace of psychologists about what the biographer termed: "The besetting admiration to accrue perishables."

Psychotherapist Lisa Brateman told the reporter: "The anticipation to get milk afore a storm is followed by the activity or coercion to go out and accrue it. In one way or another, we absorb a lot of time and activity aggravating to feel in control, and affairs things you ability bandy out still gives the being a faculty of ascendancy in an uncontrollable situation."

But affairs tins of deviled ham and Vienna (or Vy-eena if you're Southern) sausages sends the bulletin that you anticipate the storm may allurement you in your abode for an continued aeon while perishables are the apotheosis of optimism.

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Gotta get the bread and milk! - GIF on Imgur | bread and milk meme

Licensed analytic analyst Judy Rosenberg said: "Buying perishables is like saying, 'the storm will be over anon and I won't be ashore in this bearings for long.'"

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