On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:10:31 -0400, Diane Roselles >
wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:01:30 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>
> > On 6/26/2011 3:49 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> >> Way Back Jack wrote:
> >>>
> >>> None of the food stores carries it. I recall that as a kid, it was as
> >>> commonplace as packages of rice. Now you have to find some hippie-owned
> >>> specialty food shop if you hope to find it.
> >>
> >> Safeway and Lucky carry it. Safeway's barley always has
> >> bits of straw or bran in it, so I always buy it at Lucky.
> >> Where do you live that they don't have these stores?
> >
> > In Maryland I haven't seen barley in regular grocery stores.
>
> Amen. Also in Md. Safeway, Giant, Weis, Shoppers Food Warehouse, and
> several others whose names escape me. In other words, none of the retail
> "super" market outlets that I visited has this grain.

It's always interesting to see what's *easily* available regionally
(not just one or two markets).... I'd bet that barley would be common
back East; but according to you, I'd lose.

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