Call me stupid if you like

List your top 5 grocery store items.

Call me stupid if you like.

What kind of question’s that?

Who would shop for just five things

Unless they had run out?

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We’d seldom shop for just five things

We do a bigger shop

Most things can be stored and kept

We might run out of milk.

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We seldom need much fruit or veg

We mostly grow our own

And mostly bake our daily bread

We buy the flour in bulk.

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We eat a varied diet –

a lot of different food

And keep a well stocked larder

Of condiments and such.

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When we’re running low on things

We add them to the list

Won’t always be the same five things

Depends what’s running out.

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So why’d you ask the question

Do you find this interesting?

It won’t make for great reading

Or pull our readers in.

Footnote:

I had to look this up.

A grocery store (AE), grocery shop(BE) or simply grocery^[1] is a retailstore that primarily retails a general range of food products,^[2] which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, “grocery store” is a synonym for supermarket,^[3] and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries. In the UK, shops that sell food are distinguished as grocers^[3] or grocery shops (though in everyday use, people usually use either the term “supermarket” or a “corner shop“.)