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conuly
The USA Emergency Supply Website
They're sure there's no rice shortage anywhere in the US, and I'm sure they would know, but...
Meanwhile, just last Friday I happened to walk past a corner store that was hysterically full of rice. Piled from floor to ceiling (literally) in the window, and on every shelf, and on the floor where people didn't HAVE to walk.
Not even all the best rice - a lot of it was "parboiled" or "instant" or what-have-you.
Clearly, the proprietors of the shop read the news, saw that there might be a profit to be made on rice (a fair bet in an area where just about everybody's national cuisine features the grain), and just decided to run with it.
Hoo-boy that was a lot of rice!
They're sure there's no rice shortage anywhere in the US, and I'm sure they would know, but...
Meanwhile, just last Friday I happened to walk past a corner store that was hysterically full of rice. Piled from floor to ceiling (literally) in the window, and on every shelf, and on the floor where people didn't HAVE to walk.
Not even all the best rice - a lot of it was "parboiled" or "instant" or what-have-you.
Clearly, the proprietors of the shop read the news, saw that there might be a profit to be made on rice (a fair bet in an area where just about everybody's national cuisine features the grain), and just decided to run with it.
Hoo-boy that was a lot of rice!
