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[Protagoras]

Corned beef and baked beans? Don't forget the toilet paper, when armagedon hits TP will be nowhere to be found.

How long will the battle of armagedon take?

Generally, it's presumed to be over in an instant, so that there may be little time to deploy the TP before the power supply to the fan fails.

[DoctorStrangelove]

......and corned beef, don't forget corned beef!

In one of the current books:

I went along to a wholesaler in the City of London and bought a dozen 50lb cases of corned beef and half a dozen bags of green coffee beans

The villagers thought he was crazy until a year or so later. .