Desperate shoppers not desperate enough for odd foods on picked-over grocery shelves

A lot of media attention has been focused on what people are hoarding amid the coronavirus pandemic, but social media is captivated by what we’re leaving behind.

It’s admittedly funny when a supermarket is out of almost everything, but can’t give away pineapple pizza, chickpea pasta or anything with the word “corona” on it, like Corona beer.

Social media is interpreting these shopping choices as an odd sign of hope: A way Americans are demonstrating that, despite living in desperate times, we’re still not desperate enough to eat a tofu hot dog.

“Somehow reassuring in the midst of coronavirus shopping frenzy to know that people still have the sense *not* to buy chocolate hummus and buffalo hummus,” Noah tweeted on March 12.

“The people have spoken and it is a resounding “Hell No!” We would rather starve in a pandemic before eating plant-based meat!” Jesse Pritchard posted March 20.

Here are other examples of products left on store shelves among the COVID-19 outbreak, as observed by social media.

This story was originally published March 26, 2020 at 9:22 AM with the headline "Desperate shoppers not desperate enough for odd foods on picked-over grocery shelves."