Grocery shopping continues to be quite the adventure here in Moscow. It’s the popular game called “what’s inside the box?” The primo challenge is the hunt for baking items - sense of humor mandatory! Sugar? Nyet, salt. Baking powder? Not so much...turned out to be some sort of custard filling. Major victory in finally finding cornstarch last week. It only took 8 months to realize Google Translate would become my very best friend. Popped in “cornstarch” in the translate box and out came “кукурузного крахмала”....then the “match this phrase” game begins at the store. No surprise, grocery shopping is typically a longer process here in the motherland.
Interesting choices abound...
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| Plentiful produce, you can find just about anything... |
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| Russians LOVE their cakes...they are beautiful! |
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| Prepared food, haven't ventured here yet... |
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| This is as much of the sausage lane as I could get on my camera....add 10 feet on either side... |
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| Again, add about 10 feet to these bins... (see below) |
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| Found in the refrigerator section, about the length of your index finger...some sort of cake with fruit filling....interesting, sort of. |
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| The yogurt aisle actually goes the length of the entire store - lots of drinkable... |
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| Dairy products come in varying degrees of fat...here you can see 0%, 5% and 9%...the higher the fat, the thicker the product. I believe this is сottage cheese... |
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| Mayonnaise for days!!! Add 10 feet in either direction to this aisle - lots 'o flavors that come in stand up pouches...we'll call it interesting... |
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| Available year round - very bitter... |
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| These peaches grow flat - actually very tasty! |
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| I call this the white albino bell pepper - a little light on taste... |
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| Corn is often sold like this (already cooked) or in a jar (also pre-cooked) that looks like some sort of science experiment... |
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Gave it a try....one and done...
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Always SO happy to find items like this...appears to have come from Germany...?
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| If really in doubt, there's always Wendy's....this just opened!! |
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| Note curly fries, instead of regular fries and an unidentified food item 2nd from the bottom on the right....? |
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Oh man, I can't tell you how excited seeing all these great pictures got me. I've never been, but my wife (who grew up in Minsk) keeps taunting me with descriptions of the vast food markets they've got over there where everything is super fresh. very, very cool.
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