North American Supermarkets are horrific

[DaddyCool]

We've been complaining about the supermarkets around here (Canada) for months. I'm sick of buying sandwich meat and produce and it being rotten two days later. I was looking carrots last night but couldn't bring myself to buying them. I was able to bend them a full 180 degrees.

so anyway, we were watching old reruns of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" last night on BBC Canada. There was a scene of the in Tescos and we were drooling at the mouth.

I mean, Tesco's is considered crap in the UK but its superior to these pits.

the selection of meat, cheese, real dairy products, organic, alcohol....

arrgggh!

We do have a Whole Foods Market not too far away but I find ordinary supermarkets so expensive here that I resent going to somewhere nicknames "Whole Paycheck Market"! I suspect if I ever go there I will be hooked though.

Ous ordinary supermarkets are A & P, Pathmark, Food Emporium and Stop & Shop. None are great and none have everything I want.

We have a Trader Joes too but it is tiny and I didn't think it was very impressive. Not even any decent sausages!

Can you get whole milk, Cf?

In NY we had A&P and Key and also the Gristedes mentioned in the Gourmet-Milk-From-Amazon page - and something else but I forget what.

In Minnesota we had Byerly's which was carpeted and had chandeliers hanging over the freezer cabinets

humour me and remind me what they call minced beef

i cannt remember

ground, darling

(they grind it. in a grinder. )

We have big Willys

Congratulations, MrsM!

It gives me headache just thinking about it, it's so big.

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shopping in canada is shite in general though,am always disappointed

Icod - a corn dog is one of the most disgusting things known to man.
It's a cheap sausage on a stick that has been dipped in sweet corn batter then deep fried. We tried one last year at the State fair, I nearly threw up.

It took me nearly a year to find a bread that I can stomach, we now get Brownberry Double fiber whole wheat.

We get our milk from a local dairy and they guarantee that the milk comes from cows that are not treated with rBST.

I used to dream about Tesco's, but on our last trip back I went to one on Christmas eve and lost count how many times I was shoulder barged, and as for the veg, there was no bloody veg left at 10:00 in the morning!
I am cured.

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I live in the mid west and we have everything deep fried over here, lovely

nicely wrote califrau

we're really struggling finding/getting things we feel happy feeding ds.