Decades ago, I traded commodities futures. That was when I was young and fearless. Carlton always worried I’d miscalculate and end up having to take delivery on a tanker car of frozen orange juice concentrate.
Here at The Asylum, it feels like someone has taken delivery on a shipping container of chickpeas. I did a little digging:
Chickpeas (a.k.a. garbanzos) have been around for 7,000 years, first grown in the Middle East. Today the big producers are India, Australia, Turkey, Mexico, and the U.S. (mostly Washington, Idaho, and Montana).
They are usually transported in bulk (sacks, bulk railcars, or containers) or canned (pallets by truck). Either way, they’re cheap, protein-rich, and shelf-stable — perfect for food service distributors like Sysco. And Sysco pulls up to the Asylum every morning.
Order once, and you’ve got enough to feed a small army. Or Asylum. Maybe Sysco even has a “subscribe and save” button like Amazon — accidentally check the box, and voilà, a ton of chickpeas every month.
