On the way home, she showed me all her favorite rice-cracker shops, common as Starbucks, which I also saw.
It's hard to make a cracker-box sub shop an institution, but they seem to have succeeded.
Imagine if the entire economy took Sundays off: no laundry, no mowing the lawn, no farming, no movies, no homework, no piano practice, no shopping, no eating at Cracker Barrel.
Explore the weird crackers and crazy Japanese candies at quirky shops like Shochiku, then stop for a pick-me-up at Toykio, an ultramodern toy shop, art gallery and cafe.
And since their express location doubles as a gift shop, this is basically a Cracker Barrel run by a grandmother who grew up on a ranch.
In Republican-voting districts Cracker Barrel, a southern-themed restaurant, is common; upscale Whole Foods shops cluster in Democratic areas.
So the Sugar Sprite and I must stumble along together, our awkward wings sometimes snagging shopping carts, and the tops of whole grain cracker boxes.
EG: Once, I tried to eat at Cracker Barrel on a road trip (It was the South. I love gift shops).
She lives in Chichimiquillas, a gritty village where the business district consists of a tiny store stocked with crackers and Coca-Cola, a tire repair shop, and a sherbet stand.
On a recent afternoon at Pathmark in Woodbury, Ms. Delaurentis, a Bethpage resident who acknowledged only that she is over 65, was offering graham crackers to customers as they shopped.
Her sacrificial lamb is Charis Weston, wife of the photographer Edward Weston, whose fall from grace takes her "from posing nude in the sand dunes to cataloging negatives and shopping for organic crackers".
