Last night I was listening to bits and pieces of the local news as they were discussing hurricane preparedness. You know, how much water per person per day. All that stuff. It doesn’t appear we’ll get a direct hit from Gustav, but we are in the “cone of uncertainty.” So with natural disasters in mind, when I saw this Emergency Food Supply in a Costco specials email today I clicked through to see what it included.

275 servings in a bucket that looks like it holds pool cleaning chemicals. The first item: 30 servings of Potato Bakon. Yes, bacon with a “k.” I’m trying to think of when I would be desperate enough to eat Potato Bakon from a bucket. Probably after we ate all those random canned goods & old saltine crackers that live at the back of the pantry. And another puzzling item: 25 servings of Ala King. This is a vegetarian set so I’m trying to figure out what exactly is being “ala king-ed” here. Couldn’t be Chicken or Turkey Ala King. I’m not familiar with Ala King just by itself. I wonder what that is?? I guess I’ll never know since I don’t plan on shelling out $74.99 for the set.