no rice for you

earlier this month i wrote about the excellent site, free rice, where you donate grains of rice to the un world food program by testing your vocabulary. i'm not sure from where the rice comes, but i sure hope it wasn't sam's club and costco because it appears that the soup nazi has taken positions at those two establishments and has switched his attention to rice.
in response to rising food prices, increased demand, and decreased supply, both sam's club and costco decided this week to limit the amount of rice that customers may purchase. i'm sorry, but give me a big, fat, f*cking break! last time i checked, rice was not the staple food in this country. sure, many people eat rice regularly, but come on - enough with the fear mongering!
i do hope that they're limiting our rice purchases so they can send it where it's really needed - to places in the world where the rice shortage will have grave consequences. (did you know that most of the rice in the world is consumed within a 60 mile radius of where it was grown?) but unfortunately, i think it's more about being able to engineer a shortage, create fear, raise the price, and bring in a little extra cash.