This One's For You Dad

So in this blog post I am going to compare shopping at American supermarkets with French supermarkets which if you know my dad he is obsessed with food shopping. First of all, in the supermarket in France they have 4 aisles of just different types of alcohol: wine, beer, champagne, liquor (legitimately everything) which you do not have in the United States and it is all super cheap, especially wine. You can buy a pretty quality bottle of wine for 2 or 3 euros which is not true at all in America and boxed wine in France is actually quality and tastes nothing like Franzia.

Another benefit of France really cheap and delicious cheese. I've never seen so many different types of cheese in my life including: Camembert, Brie, Gouda, Emmental (the French staple cheese which is kind of like Swiss cheese), Mimmolette, Mozzarella, they have it all. I bought a box of camembert cheese for 1.82 euros which in America would probably cost around 8 $ same with brie it is so cheap here and they have so many options ready and available in your average supermarket.

However, not everything about French groceries is not better. First of all people in France go food shopping about 2 or 3 times per week. Their expiration dates are so much sooner and food goes bad so easily so you can basically never buy in bulk like with cold cuts they only sell slices of ham and turkey in packs of 2, 4 or 6 slices personally that is just not enough slices for me! In addition to their meat being a little weird their fruit is very different too! They have so many different fruits that I have never seen before and they pretty much sell no berries or they are really expensive I miss raspberries so much!! And they only sometimes have bananas because they are out of season. But an interesting fact is that the fruit here is a lot smaller the strawberries are about half the size because the farmers don't use any pesticides or hormones with their fruits and vegetables which I guess is another reason why everything expires so quickly.

The orange fruit is Kaki fruit it is basically a sweet orange tomato so strange!