Bulgar. Human's earliest recorded use of wheat.
Possibly unobtainable in Koreatown, Los Angeles. That or I've gone crazy and am making up random foods.
The recipe for meatloaf I'm making tonight called for it. So, Erik and I head to our neighborhood Vons (Safeway for those of you in the Northwest) and search up and down various isles to no avail. Finally, I find a Vons worker, a Mexican looking female with a hairnet. "What?" She exclaims. I repeat myself.
"What is it?"
"Well," I explain "it's a grain. A wheat." And after hesitating she replies "let me find someone else". Erik and I wait.
Another worker comes over to us, this time a large male also Mexican looking. "What are you looking for?"
"Bulgar."
"Bugger?!"
"No...BULGAR"
"What is it?"
"A grain"
"Let me find someone better for this." He says.
We wait.
Another guy comes over and says "what are you looking for?"
"Bulgar."
"Burger?"
"No..BULGAR."
"What is it?"
"A grain!" (I'm getting a little tired of repeating myself)
"I dunno.." He says and wanders off.
The original guy comes over.
"...uh...would it be in a can?"
"Shouldn't be. Probably a container like a bag or box."
So we follow him up and down some appropriate isles...to no avail.
Erik finally looks up on his phone that Cous Cous is sometimes used in place of bulgar so...we're giving that a try...
