Grocery Store

With help from Rex, I made it to a "normal" grocery store that sells western food. I realized how spoiled I am in the US, as even this large store did not have near the variety of a Bi-lo. Things I noticed:

• No grits! (This is a good thing.)
  
• 3 different stores and none of them have margarine sold in 1/4 lb sticks. But, the closest I could buy was a box of 3 lbs of margarine in 1/4 lb blocks that are not shaped like sticks but rather short fat squares with no tbsp markings. Come on people, it's sold by the lb and recipes want tbsp, so what's so hard about selling the sticks?
• Crisco isn't sold in the nice big cardboard tubs, just in smaller more expensive containers.
• No saffron rice. (This is a bad thing; Jonathon got me hooked.)
• No completely lazy crockpot meals in a bag. Too bad, those were great.