On Jun 26, 11:10*pm, 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.

don't believe it. Giant is owned by Ahold, same as Stop and Shop. Look
where the GOYA products are. And if Safeway in California has it, they
have it in Maryland.