Remember the pork shortage a while back?

Sam's is where we buy porkchops. To me, the big chop packs are always a good price and, while they aren't as thick as they could be, they are plenty thick enough for spur of the moment eating. We take them and individually wrap them in plastic wrap, then throw them in a gallon zip lock bag after freezing them. they seem to hold just fine in the freezer done that way.

We probably need to go grab a pack and restock the freezer. To me, pork chops are a perfect "Don't know what we want to eat tonight" option.

Country ribs are a nice option we haven't had in a while. Should get some of those, too.

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aren't as thick as they could be

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you can call ahead and they will custom cut them

To be honest, I never saw any shortage of pork products this year. I heard of people talking about it but at the same time Rouses was selling 2 pork butts in a vacuum bag at $.99 a lb. and I could buy all the pork bellies, loins, chops, etc. I could want.

It was nothing like the "Great Toilet Paper & Hand Sanitizer Shortage of 2020".

There was indeed a pork shortage due to pork processors shitting down for Covid. It affected my industry greatly for a while. Other processors who further process pork products had a hard time getting pork and some even had to take a few days off because they had no pork.

Sams had members mark disinfecting wipes and northern tp also.

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I finally got some at Costco on Thursday - but maybe it’s just me.

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A couple weeks ago my wife went to Costco and they were only allowing customers 1 pack of toilet paper and 1 pack of paper towels. Not sure if that is still going on.

Sam's has pretty good meat. I buy steaks there and they are pretty damn good most of the time. Most of the time when I do "pork chops" I just get a pork loin and slice it myself. I'll do a 1" thick dor me and my son and 1/2" or so for the girls.