# Where to buy quinoa **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904 "2008-02-24T01:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/1 "2008-02-24T01:29:30Z")
Thread title says it-in the Harrisburg, Baltimore, or Philly markets. Main supermarkets have nada, and the Mexican stores where I pick up great peppers and such also are drawing a blank. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/2 "2008-02-24T01:31:29Z")
I buy it at Whole Foods. Is there one in your area? I’ve also found it at the local hippy-dippy “health food store”. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/3 "2008-02-24T01:53:51Z")
I get it at Trader Joe’s ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/4 "2008-02-24T02:21:55Z")
I second Gwendee, and it’s also at Whole Foods here. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/5 "2008-02-24T02:34:33Z")
I got it in the bulk section of Whole Foods as well. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/6 "2008-02-24T03:05:31Z")
Bulk foods at Safeway. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/7 "2008-02-24T03:05:44Z")
**supervenusfreak** gets it at the organic foods booth in Central Market (morning to afternoon Tuesday, Friday and Saturday) here in Lancaster (which is probably closest). I know Trader Joe’s has it, too…there are several in Baltimore that I know of, and one in King of Prussia. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/8 "2008-02-24T12:13:41Z")
Most of the local grocers sell Bob’s Red Mill products in the baking aisle.Mebbe check them for a local vendor. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/9 "2008-02-25T04:35:05Z")
Thanks for all suggestions. Apparently the folks at my local Giant don’t know their own inventory. I decided to check the orgasmic wheat-free gluten-free born-free stuff aisle (where I never go) and darned if it wasn’t right there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/10 "2008-02-25T23:46:59Z")
:dubious: Quinoa gets stuck in my teeth! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/11 "2008-02-26T00:24:53Z")
Quinoa looks like a bowl full of little, itty bitty condoms. I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/12 "2008-02-26T04:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Quinoa looks like a bowl full of little, itty bitty condoms. [/QUOTE] Heh, I don’t know what itty-bitty condoms look like, but this stuff looked like itty-bitty worms. **danceswithcats** made a nice dinner for the two of us, but once the quinoa had cooked (steamed, actually) there were itty-bitty _things_ in it, like the husks (?) had come off. Itty-bitty curly bits; they looked like worms. We ate it anyway. It was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/13 "2008-02-26T04:28:53Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Heh, I don’t know what itty-bitty condoms look like, but this stuff looked like itty-bitty worms. **danceswithcats** made a nice dinner for the two of us, but once the quinoa had cooked (steamed, actually) there were itty-bitty _things_ in it, like the husks (?) had come off. Itty-bitty curly bits; they looked like worms. We ate it anyway. It was pretty good. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was a bit taken aback the first time by those, too. But it’s just too good to dwell on unfortunate visual correspondences…I loves me some quinoa. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-buy-quinoa/438904/14 "2008-02-26T07:58:39Z")
Wild quinoa grows on the eastern edge of Elysian Park in Los Angeles (near Dodger Stadium), and anyone is free to pick it. But I guess that’s a little far to go, and it’s right next to the 5.