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....

ohhh. memories of university. We used to go to Wegmans at 2am, drunk, and buy super microwavable cheeseburgers. And ramen noodles. And tubs of cookie dough (I fell out massively with my housemate because he ate all the lumps of cookie dough out of my CD icecream )

Happy days...

"I could rave about the seafood where I am" Including the artificial crab? [innocent]

To be fair, California isn't actually part of the US, any more than NYC is. (Or any more than London is part of the UK - we do fine for Turkish, Bengali, Thai and Japanese food all reasonably locally.)

Ds1 is not that enamoured of the supermarkets in California. I've been to a number in Ca and in NYC and state and although at first glance they look enticing there's so much 'artifical' food on the shelves. When people talk of making a cake they use a packet, lol!

At the same time they don't seem to have such a big range of quality ready to cook meals like M&S sell. Ds1 has started to make his own curries from scratch as even in LA he hasn't come across an Indian that's a patch on those in the UK. He doesn't like much of the bread and has been amazed at the awful coffee, like floor sweepings. He's even been forced to go to Starbucks for a decent coffee.

Food is very cheap. We saw 10lb boxes of strawberries last year for just a few dollars - how do they manage that?? They're not very clean, either, a bit like Uk supermarkets in the 70's.

But whatever the US supemarket's faults, they're all a zillion times better than the ones in Nigeria, sigh.

here's the link OO!

rofl

nice one dc

that was over a year ago and I had a cold then ffs

maybe I need some 'healthy' cookie dough....

Don't get me wrong. I love the UK. I think if you are living in another country, go with it, and go native and learn something new. If I want to eat north american, then, hey, I should go back to north america. I find it funny though that the things that my canadian friends over here say they hate about the uk food, are the very things that I am reading brits in North america hate about our food. Some weird symetry (sp wrong I know but lazy to look it up) going on. Remember the JOhn Cleese sketch, You say tomato, I say tomato...If you haven't seen the sketch you will think I am mad. Off to bed for me!

It's been so long since I've been in one I've almost completely forgotten.

I shopped in Whole Foods, anyhow.

Not bad, IIRC.

hey daddycool next time you go down the 410 and onto highway 10 wave at brampton for me will you? yes PPH grew up in hicksville ont shock

(and I was born in Peterborough )

hey PPH, I grew up in Dundas Ont !

the only thing I really really really really miss which you CANNOT get here ever, are Eggo Waffles.

Sigh

The world's finest breakfast in your toaster

(Oh I also miss Sara Lee frozen chocolate fudge brownies but not as much as eggo waffles with aunt jemima maple flavored corn syrup on top ahhhhhhhh)

woo hooo! was that peel county too? can't remember

shall we all have a quick online rendition of oh canada then?

our home and native land......

your turn

true patriot love in all our sons commaaaaaaaaaand

christ ,can't remember the county,would recognise it if i HEARD IT

(oi hurry up your heart should be glowing by now)

it was written on the front of all your school exercise books, remember?

we stand by thee

shit dum dum de dum

lol

tadaa

ta da, just or you ggirl

O Canada!

Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.