# What's the collective name for flour, sugar and so on?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-collective-name-for-flour-sugar-and-so-on/428751 "2007-12-04T04:14:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-collective-name-for-flour-sugar-and-so-on/428751/41 "2007-12-06T18:49:06Z")

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[QUOTE=xnylder]  
In my experience, in the food service trade, “dry goods” refers to anything a food provider (restaurant, caterer, or so on) can receive that doesn’t need to be refrigerated. As **Agnostic Pagan** points out, it’s the stuff you could keep in a pantry. Rice, flour, oil, ketchup, takeout containers… anything like that could be part of a dry goods order. Part of my job as a cook was to check those orders. In our restaurant’s case, the other thing everything on the list had in common was that it came from one general supplier.  
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And it’s all kept in a room or other designated area called “dry storage”.

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