Karucha Shokku

[niki_chan]

You know how at some stage in their life everyone discovers the joys of 'ethnic' food stores? Of little grimy catch-all 'asian groceries', of mysterious Indian supermarkets, of unhealthy looking family run eastern-european delicatessens

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[minga]

Trowbridge is this little town in England about 20 mins on the train out of Bath, and it's got this fucking HUGE tesco, i was so scared by it when i went in that i was almost cowering in a corner saying 'i want an australian supermarket'. we discovered that you can't buy clothes pegs in it though. clothes, books, cds, dvds, cafe, and you can even buy televisions and probably video players as well, but no fricking clothes pegs.

they've got the best damn vegie burgers in the freezers though I think i'll import a tesco just so that i can eat the damn things when i get home. oh, and they have vegemite and tim tams in tesco now!

so yes, that's my supermarket story. i've become a v-hunter. it's difficult to procure caffeine-infused drinks that aren't red bull (ick) over here. best deal was 70p in the english 'safeway'. but yes, i'm sure you don't care.

and tea-bags don't come with tags. how could anyone be barbaric enough to not put tags on tea-bags? twinings put them on for us but it's impossible to buy twinings tea bags in supermarkets in england with tags. barbarians!

but i'm in holland at the moment anyway so i have no idea what's in the supermarkets here. sometimes they'll have french on the packaging so at least i'll have some idea what the hell something is!