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?
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.
We seldom need much fruit or veg
We mostly grow our own
And mostly bake our daily bread
We buy the flour in bulk.
We eat a varied diet –
a lot of different food
And keep a well stocked larder
Of condiments and such.
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.
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“.)
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