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You know, I actually went out about a month ago and did the first run, I should finally get around to writing up about the experience. Anything after the 3.17 pounds of meat was sadly not up for consideration for this run, as I already had my list.

Bees

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Ha ha ha, very funny.

Cactus Pear

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Right with all the other produce, not that hard to find.

Expensive water (as defined by being >$4.99)

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OVER SEVEN DOLLARS? And for some reason, they were completely sold out.

Food with exactly 1 Calorie

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A quick search after the fact shows that Pepsi One was discontinued over two years ago. And I spent like four minutes searching for it.

Gluten-free pita

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There were like seventeen-billion pitas. I spent five minutes trying to see if any of them specifically said 'gluten-free' before just cutting my losses with any pita whatsoever.

Meyer Lemons

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Apparently this store sells them, but it could just be at the other location. Oh well.

Monosodium glutamate

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Let's be honest, WHAT WAS I THINKING INCLUDING THIS IN MY LIST???

Peanut butter and jelly in the same jar

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They also had it with grape jelly.

Pickled Eggs

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I didn't get around to searching for this until I had three minutes remaining. I'm fairly certain that they are somewhere, it's just I had no clue where to begin and no time to do it.

Santa

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Just over a minute in, I find a cannister of biscuits with his face on it.

Tzatziki sauce

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Well, I didn't find it exactly, but this make-your-own gyros kit has it, so it has to be in here, no?

Utz cheese balls

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I live in the midwest. Of course there's going to be Utz cheese balls here.

FINAL SCORE:

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6.5/12

What I learned from this:
I need better time management, and I need to NOT PICK FOODS THAT WOULD NEVER SHOW UP.

Also, I did a test run with items which I knew where they were, just to see if it would work.

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Kimchi

Kinder Surprise Eggs

Not Pockets^TM (aka Bread)

Individual pickles in the produce section

It took me four minutes to find all these. And that's why they weren't in the actual search.

So, with all that, guess who's probably going to do this again with items that I either didn't get around to including the first time, were offered up after I did it, or if I KNOW IT'S THERE AND I SWEAR I'M GOING TO FIND THOSE PICKLED EGGS IF IT KILLS ME.