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A Grocery Store Hunt, etc.

My adventure for the day was to find corn syrup at the grocery store. Sounds easy, right?! NOT! First I checked my internet translator for how to say corn syrup--it says ko-nshiroppu. Ok, write that down. By the way, now that I have 10 pounds of American sugar sealed away in my zip lock bags (bless Tom and Dale for carrying that heavy suitcase from Mom!) I thought I would brave making carmels--thus the need for ko-nshiroppu. Kinda late for Christmas, but the carmels that Tom and Dale brought were such a hit, I thought I'd try to make some! Before when I used Japanese sugar, any recipe with a lot of sugar just didn't turn out right--I guess Japanese sugar is more moist, or something! I headed to the biggest grocery store in this area and began scanning the aisles for a bottle of thick clear yellow liquid with the Japanese characters RVbv. I tapped all the bottles of what I thought is oil--corn, safflower, vegetable--but it is too thin. Then near the sweetener I spy a small bottle of thick clear stuff--hmm! Doesn't say RVbv, but it does say Vbv, but oh no, I think that thing before it means coffee. Well, back down the aisles I go--nothing promising. I guess I had better be brave and ask a store clerk--speak Japanese--yikes! With my written out letters, I spy a clerk who looks like she might be nice and patient with a dumb foreigner near the clear substance. "Sumimasen," (Excuse me,), I say. Then I fumble through saying ko-nshiroppu and is this it? Do you have it? She indicated for me to wait there and ran off. Hmm, I tapped all the oil bottles again--its gotta be here somewhere! She comes running back (the Japanese are very eager to help the customer as they show by racing to help you!). I trying to understand her--I think she is saying that they don't have it, but then I am definitely sure they don't when she lifts her arms up and crosses them. "Arigato gozimas!" I say, thanking her, and bowing slightly in response to her bow. Well, I guess no carmels for today! I'll have to pick the brains of some American cooks tomorrow at church! Seems like I remember one American who came here thought she had oil to fry pancakes and she had corn syrup! Hmmm, wonder where she shopped!

Have had several small earthquakes lately--seems funny to be sitting at the kitchen table and realize that the whole house is shaking! It lasts only a few seconds, but it takes my heart a while to get back to pounding normally after that! Nothing moved around in my shelves, but I'm glad Akihiro suggested that I put double stick stuff on my plate holder!

Enjoyed an outing with the Klaus family to Costco last evening! Costco is like a Sam's club and it has English labels and many American products--don't remember seeing any corn syrup, though! It was fun to see their four carts loaded down with groceries, etc. for their family of 10! It must be like what my neices and nephews do at Aldi's!

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