There's A Food Shortage Going On And MJ Realizes It's More Than That!
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00:00food shortages, and food-related issues that are cropping up right now.
00:05If you remember, we brought this up in early February because of the Super Bowl.
00:12Oh, uh, uh, chicken wings, chicken wings.
00:17You sound like the lawyer in My Cousin Vinny over there.
00:22Chicken wings.
00:24That is correct.
00:25So there was a shortage that was allegedly brewing, and now I guess it's coming to fruition.
00:31The news hit in February.
00:32There was an impending shortage on chicken wings, and now apparently it is getting to
00:38the point where, yeah, there are issues.
00:41According to restaurant business, big brands like Domino's and Wingstop might not have been
00:46impacted yet, but there were reports out of Texas and Wisconsin that local restaurants
00:51are running out of wings.
00:52All right, so wings number one.
00:53What was the other, what was the condiment issue that we talked about?
00:57Trojans.
00:58Yeah, I don't know.
00:59Condiment.
01:00Oh, oh, oh.
01:01Catch up.
01:02Spearmint-flavored Trojans.
01:03No.
01:05Condiment.
01:07I don't get it.
01:08Ketchup.
01:09Yes.
01:10But not, not the, the, like.
01:13The packets.
01:14Yeah, not the jars or the bottles of ketchup, because I was at Publix recently, and the whole
01:19ketchup aisle, all the shells were stocked with, with Heinz and, and Hunts, which is now ketchup,
01:26used to be catsup.
01:28When did that change?
01:29It's the packets.
01:30Yeah.
01:30So, the packets are on the list.
01:32We've spoken about this previously.
01:34The 700-unit chain, Long John Silvers, has reported, you know, remember you used to go to Long John Silvers,
01:42you could just get a bag full of crumbs?
01:44That's it.
01:44The crunchies, man.
01:45You could.
01:46The Hush Puppy crunchies?
01:47Or the fish crunchies?
01:48No, the fish crunchies.
01:49Oh.
01:49Fish batter crunchies.
01:50You could?
01:51You could just get a bucket full of crunchies.
01:53What?
01:54I never knew that.
01:55I would put that in my coleslaw in two seconds.
01:57So, Long John Silvers, 700 restaurants, and they reportedly had to look for ketchup packets
02:04from secondary suppliers.
02:08The steakhouse chain, Texas Roadhouse.
02:10Oh, didn't the owner?
02:12Texas Roadhouse, right?
02:13Yeah.
02:13Yeah.
02:13Something happened to the owner, right?
02:14Didn't he?
02:15Yeah, something definitely happened.
02:16He committed suicide because of...
02:18COVID.
02:19Was it COVID?
02:19Really?
02:20I think it was.
02:20Because of his inner ear ringing.
02:22Oh, no, no.
02:22Was it tinnitus?
02:23Yes.
02:24Was it?
02:24He had tinnitus because of COVID.
02:26Was that it?
02:26He ended his life.
02:28Anyway, the Texas Roadhouse said its restaurants have looked for alternatives because of the
02:34ketchup packet shortage.
02:35Here's a new one.
02:36Who likes bubble tea?
02:39The hell is that?
02:40Yeah, I saw this.
02:41I think I've had bubble tea before.
02:43My daughter, Chloe, is a bubble tea fanatic.
02:46Bubble tea this, bubble tea that.
02:48I'm like a rapper.
02:49It's...
02:50There used to be one on Waters, a bubble...
02:52There are a bunch of places.
02:54Now, I think there's one on Southdale Mabry near Neptune now.
02:57I think there's a...
02:58It's like a ninja place and it's...
03:01I think it's ninja bubble tea or something.
03:02That's like where the little tapioca...
03:04Yes.
03:04That's it.
03:05So, there's a shortage on the tapioca bowls inside the bubble tea.
03:10How is this affecting the pudding industry?
03:12That was my nickname in high school, by the way.
03:14Tapioca bowls?
03:15No, it wasn't.
03:19My nickname was bubble tea.
03:20So, now there's a bubble tea bo-ba-ball.
03:23I think they're called bo-ba-balls.
03:25Bo-ba-balls.
03:26I've never heard of these things.
03:27Yeah.
03:27They're the little, like, marble-sized, squishy tapioca little spheres inside your bubble.
03:34So, now there's a shortage of those.
03:35It's like you drink a lovely beverage and then you just, like, chew on a fish eye.
03:40Caviar.
03:40Hey, I'll take some...
03:43Listen, I love, with sushi, I love smelt roe and salmon roe.
03:48You know, the fish eye.
03:49I love that stuff.
03:50Ikora, right?
03:52Oof.
03:53And then, finally, the other shortage is it's not food, but what else is affecting, like,
03:58fast food restaurants and chains right now?
04:01Not food, but...
04:03Drinks.
04:04Workers.
04:04Yes.
04:05You got...
04:06Look at that, Roxanne.
04:07Wait, I thought that was right.
04:08Yeah, workers.
04:09There's, like, a total labor shortage.
04:10We had that story.
04:12It was a McDonald's drive-thru.
04:13They put a note on the drive-thru.
04:15Please be patient with us.
04:17People don't want to show up to work.
04:19I saw one McDonald's is giving $50 just to interview.
04:22Not even if they're going to hire you.
04:23Just sit down with us for a couple of minutes and we'll give you $50.