In the Lake Erie snow belt, the blizzard routine was bread, milk, and MONEY! ATMs didn’t work if the power was out, nor did credit card machines. Plus, my dad had a drug store and would get called in if there was a blizzard—sometimes by State Troopers on snowmobiles! However, mostly what people ran out of was Similac and cigarettes.
Or—-(Royal Flunky) “Leslie has escaped with a small friar!” (Professor Fate) “Leslie escaped with a chicken?!”