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No, I’m not leaving.  We’ll be starting school this week at my house, so I’ll probably be too overwhelmed to blog for a little while, but I have too much fun writing this blog to totally let it go.

Today, though, I’m wondering about one very important question:  Why does my commissary stock 36 types of tortillas?

Now, counting tortilla varieties is a bit OCD, I admit, but there’s a method to my madness.  I was waiting for my daughter in the commissary’s international aisle and happened to be next to a very disorganized mess of tortillas.  I don’t like disordered shelves - I worked a few retail jobs - so I tried to make some sense out of all the floury goodness, and found myself counting the types and sizes of tortillas and wraps on display.

I stopped at 36.  There were corn tortillas, small, in packs of 10 or 36.  There were flour tortillas, in fajitas and burrito sizes, packaged in various quantities.  There were low-carb tortillas, too.  And then there were the wraps - you can think of them as designer tortillas - garlic and spinach and who knows what other flavors - and the whole wheat wraps…you get the idea.

Now, I grew up in L.A. and I love my Mexican food.  Tortillas are a pantry staple at my house.  But 36 kinds?

Someone please tell me why I need so many tortilla choices.  I’ll meet you in the international aisle.

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