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Hmm, many of those items would require electricity; many people don't have a gas stove. I didn't stock up on anything - it's already stocked. Freezer is stocked with tubs of stock, and filling extra space with more ice to keep it an icebox for a couple days or so. Got charcoal and a grill. Amazon is a lot easier - ship flashlights, batteries, etc overnight. Got my solar electronics charger that way.

Great post.

Other than your typical meats and frozen veggies:

- Homemade veggie, meat, and seafood stocks
- frezer bags filled with veggie scraps, bones, and shells for the next batch of stocks
- grated ginger, bc I always buy a ginger piece that is too big, and it always goes bad before I use the rest of it. Just peel and grate a big chunk, and keep it on hand in the feezer
- chile peppers, since I grow them and never can use them fast enough...great to have during the winter
- dumpling wrappers
- frozen sliced lemongrass
- anything tomato-based left over to throw in marinara sauces and lasagna

This is also my favorite thing there. Was just daydreaming just daydreaming about them...sigh. When I had them in March, the buns were really soft...

I've also had that lobster ice cream in Maine (Bar Harbor, ME). I think it was lobster chunks in a butter flavored ice cream. The flavor was good, but the lobster flavor was solely in the chunks...and they were frozen solid. Didn't quite work.

One of my favorite not-so-weird flavors is peanut butter and jelly. YUM.

@MissBrownEyes: Funny coming from someone who won't eat pizza unless it's stuffed crust from Pizza Hut, and/or with ranch or processed cheese food melted into a *sauce*.

Correction: All burritos as we know it aren't authentic Mexican cuisine. The originals were border food (aka real Tex-Mex) from Ciudad Juarez (and small like tacos with only a couple of ingredients tucked inside).

Haha, I was just about to ask about Japadog too :).

@Daniel: History also says that Maryland never seceded from the Union, and that Washington, DC, was the The North's capital during the Civil War.

Fernando - 2Amys *is* listed.

However, since when is DC and Maryland in "South/Southwest"? They should have gone under East Coast.

Giant used to have really good store-brand pizzas that were made all natural/no preservatives...and they were made in Italy (!). They were the best frozen pizzas I'd ever had. Sigh.

I'm always disappointed when I order jalapeno poppers and they come with cream cheese. I never had that problem until I moved away from Texas, where they rightfully put real cheese in them.

Made game day chili two weeks ago for the playoffs, red pozole yesterday... probably will make Korean kalbi for the Super Bowl.

I prefer things I can't eat quickly and get full right away on -- something to last more than just the first half of the first quarter. Favorite? Spicy Cajun crawfish (fresh)...sharing 5 lbs at a time with friends...awesome.