Things I learned in an American supermarket
- EVERYTHING IS TO HUGE.
- Everything. Is. So. Huge.
- Do your supermarkets assume all shopping is done for a family of six? Why is everything so huge??
- There are basically no chip flavours. There are a couple (sea salt, cool ranch, a couple more) and then just ten different kinds of chilli/spicy/hot flavour, most claiming to be spicier than the others. Spicy chips are a weird fringe novelty in Australia but here they seem like the main thing.
- There may be no chip flavours but there is a hell of a lot of jerky. And chewing gum. Those two things have whole sections, not just a thin sliver of shelf like in Australia. So many chewing gum brands.
- There are donuts and ice cream and cakes EVERYWHERE. Supermarket, more like cake/ice cream shop.
- The money?? All looks the same??? And it feels like paper???? I mean I know you guys call it ‘paper money’ but I kind of assumed that was an exaggeration? It’s hard to believe it’s actually linen.
- The bulk savings are for things WAY in bulk. These aren’t your Aussie “two little packets of chips for one” deals. There are THREE LITRE SOFT DRINKS here, and the bulk deal is for 3 of them. Who needs 9L of soft drink at once? Is this sort of thing for parties?
- Alcohol is cheap; by which I mean alcohol is normally priced for places that aren’t Australia. Our alcohol is absurdly taxed.
- Everything is packaged so weirdly. I saw transparent bags of neatly stacked corn cobs. I saw tins of “mixed beans”, HUGE tins of mixed beans.
- Snapple and Squirt are real drinks.
- There is a brand of hair product called “Aussie” with a kangaroo logo. I have never seen it in Australia.
- The plastic shopping bags are great. They’re not the flimsy things you get in Australia; they’re real, actual bags. I highly recommend these bags.
Now I feel like australians are just trying to fck with our minds
There usually is a sperate part of the store devoted to cakes and donuts and other pasterys
I love reading people from other countries than mine interpret America because I just keep reading through this list going yep, yep, oh yea, yep, definitely, yep. Idk why it’s so fun.