1.   And despite the convenience of buying packaged tortillas at a supermarket, Mexicans still prefer buying freshly made product at their corner tortilleria.

2.   But I cannot buy fewer tortillas.

3.   Clerk Toribio Uribe said most people were still buying tortillas but fewer than usual.

4.   Customers trickled up to the counter, buying the tortillas in stacks sold by the kilogram.

5.   Similar frustration was echoed by people who came to buy tortillas at the small tortilleria where Mrs. Cortez shops in the working class neighborhood of Ixtapalapa.

6.   Instead of lining up to vote, she walked across the street to queue up to buy tortillas.