Shortages Jokes

A Soviet visitor to Budapest says to his Hungarian host, "You must have such
terrible shortages." The astonished Hungarian asks why he thinks so. The
Soviet visitor replies, "Because you have no queues!"
From Suddenly, The American Idea at Home and Abroad, George F. Will,
1990, The Free Press, New York.

From a recent newspaper article:
Cuba has severe shortages of almost every consumer commodity, including
food. Here's a current joke:
There was this fried egg walking down the street, minding its own
business. It hears some noise behind it, turns around, and sees a crowd
of hungry Cubans in the distance bearing down on it. It runs away as
fast as its little fried egg leggs will go, when it sees a steak.
It yells to the steak, "Run away! Run away! They'll get you too!"
but the steak just laughs and says, "They won't even recognize me."