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In the supermarket yesterday, (Original Post) cloudbase Sep 2017 OP
Yes. I remove five-pound sacks of grits from the shelf mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #1
Depends. Are they graham, saltines, cheese, Ritz, Triscuits, or animal crackers? nt procon Sep 2017 #2
You just had to go and complicate things. cloudbase Sep 2017 #3
Just move up North SCantiGOP Sep 2017 #4
No. DFW Sep 2017 #5

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,886 posts)
1. Yes. I remove five-pound sacks of grits from the shelf
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 11:43 AM
Sep 2017

Last edited Wed Sep 20, 2017, 08:33 PM - Edit history (2)

and put them in my shopping cart.

The Riggs Road Walmart (in northeast DC, a short walk from the Ft. Totten Metrorail stop) is the only place I can find them. No other Walmart nearby has them. I take the train to Ft. Totten, walk to the Walmart, get the grits, and head back to northern Virginia.

The Walmarts in northern Virginia do not stock them. I've looked.

cloudbase

(5,486 posts)
3. You just had to go and complicate things.
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 12:47 PM
Sep 2017

If you smell something burning, that'll be me thinking that over.

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
4. Just move up North
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 02:47 PM
Sep 2017

The crackers will turn into Saltines.

I was at a restaurant in California years ago and my young Type 1 diabetic daughter began having low blood sugar. Knowing that it would take some time to get food, I explained the situation to a waitress and asked for some 'crackers' as soon as possible. She left with a quizzical look on her face and I saw her talking to the manager (who was obviously not native and had a thick Eastern European sounding accent) who came over to our table where I explained the situation again and made my requests for 'some crackers.'
Don't know what they thought was going on, but a minute later the waitress came over with 4 sets of ------------ the nutcracker-type devices used to open crab legs. After a laugh we managed to get some Saltines.

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