SC - regional american food

[Maggie MacDonald]

Evidently, maraschino cherries are a regional food.  Here in Caid, I can 
only find a tiny 10-oz bottle on the liquor aisle at the grocery store for 
$4.  Back home in Atlantia, I could get a pound jar from the same shelf as 
the fruitcake fruit for about the same cost.  And I need at least that much 
for my Christmas baking.  I guess I can use glaceed cherries.  Or dried 
cherries.

*Sigh*

I was having a real bad ingredient hunting day yesterday.  First, every 
grocery in town for the non-existent cherries (I'm not paying that price for 
the amount I need.)  Then, I went all over northern Orange county looking 
for cardamom pods.  Back home, at least 5 different places sold a large 
variety of spices by weight, 3 within walking distance of home, and 2 within 
walking distance of my office.  Here, the only place I could find it here 
was Wholefoods--whose bulk spice selection is nothing like at home.  And it 
was the kind already out of the pod, but I wanted pods.


And my computer at home is still down.

Bonne
(from Tony's office)
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