Milk and bread, two staples among the American diet, become a joke this time of year as people scatter to the grocery store before snow hits. Posted 2/17/2025, 6:53:48 PM Bread and milk are top ...

Milk and Bread, 2 staples among the American diet, become a joke this time of year as people scatter to the grocery store before snow hits. Posted 6:50 p.m. Feb 17 — Updated 6:50 p.m. Feb 17 NO ...

In Alabama, our brains tell us: Go to the grocery store. Buy milk and bread. And sometimes eggs. Or toilet paper, depending on how much you stockpile. But why?

The CDC recommends bread as a no-cook food to stock ahead of a storm, but not perishables like milk and eggs. A power outage means those foods may not last until the storm passes.

Accuweather says the idea of buying milk and bread before a winter storm dates back to the Blizzard of 1978, which hit New England. People were trapped in their homes for days without those products.

Milk sandwiches? Bless our sarcastic little hearts, y’all. The memes work overtime when snow is in the forecast. But we Southerners can’t deny we have a strange urge to buy bread and milk when ...

"I think people just do it instinctively," Handfield said. "Their parents used to buy bread and milk. Maybe there's a comfort level of knowing, 'well, if we run out of food, we'll have bread and ...