We still experience supply chain issues where we live - inundated with tourists 3 months in the summer and a very small year round, skewed retired, population the rest of the time. Even before the pandemic, shelves would be bare of essentials when tourists were here and not well-stocked in the off seasons. It’s a strange place to be.
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Ahh… we are hoping to be some of those tourists this summer, but I hope we tread lightly. As much as we can. Although I grew up in upstate NY, we moved to the west coast in my teens, and I’ve mostly been here since. Never ever been to Cape Cod, M’s V, etc. My younger son wants to do an east coast college tour this summer, and since Boston is on the list, we thought we’d finally go see the cape.
If you come to the Outer Cape (Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown) I can give some pointers! We’ve been here since 1991. September is the best month and June is also nice, July and August - be prepared for heavy traffic and long lines to anything. Our population quadruples but our roads and restaurants don’t. I seldom drive in the summer and we rarely go out to eat except for a local clam shack. We do our grocery shopping in the middle of the week in the middle of the hottest, sunniest days when everyone and their mother is on the beaches.
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Thank you for your generosity, considering I’m marking myself as an encroacher. It will be Aug, as that’s what our school schedules allow, and I will pm you next year for some pointers!
There’s a high speed ferry that operates in the summer from Boston to Provincetown. It’s a real time-saver and a beautiful ride. Book yourself into a guest house in P-town. It’s very walkable. Be prepared for a lot of gay culture, the restaurants there are awesome - the nightlife is not for the faint of heart. The rest of this end of the Cape is rural. Mostly National Seashore. Provincetown is lovely but in August it’s a zoo. Best without a car there.
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I spent some childhood years in Woods Hole; I returned a couple of times in recent years. Love the fried clams. Try to go to Nantucket for the day, Ferry leaves from Hyannis. Prefer it to Martha’s Vineyard.
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Quite possibly right, but as someone who started with c-rations (officially “MCI” but everyone called them C-rats, no real difference) and ended with MREs, the MREs were definitely a step in the right direction. Out in the field we’d be issued 2 each morning and most of us would shove them down inside our jackets (instead of putting in the rucks) to have them warm by time to eat. The peanut butter like substance especially was inedible if not fairly warm.
Never got to try the MRE turkey tet. Must have been after my time.
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Loved that guy since childhood. He’s my Fonzy. Way cool.
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But JP has never jumped the shark!
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Back to my original post…….
I finally got around to trying the Swanson canned white chunk chicken I bought shortly after that post. Pretty disappointing experience. I’d taken out a knife to cut the ‘breast meat’ into smaller pieces for chicken salad but didn’t need it as this was just small pieces that looked like tuna after you break it up.
Maybe ‘chunk’ is the issue, but at $5.99/can, I could have bought a whole Costco rotisserie chicken and gotten a dollar in change. And there would have been some taste to it as well. I get the convenience thing, but this was pretty bad stuff IMHO. Maybe another brand??
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I don’t think the brand will help. Canned chunk chicken is just not very good. You can doctor it to cover the deeply overcooked flavor and texture, but that’s about it.
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In fairness I need to correct my post yesterday. The brand of canned chicken was Sprouts not Swanson. .
I like Sprouts stores. Bad luck with meat, for me, but decent cheeses and other deals. I’d think they’d be chickenworthy.
