Queen of the Supermarket

So, three days into our holiday and I’m now the proud possessor of an American cellphone and a supermarket loyalty card. Awesome! As are the assistants who a) are incredibly helpful,  b) love my accent and c) don’t know where France is. Although as Stephanie pointed out, that was probably because of the short “a” in my northern accent!

I love foreign supermarkets.  And in many ways King Sooper reminds me more of the ones in France than supermarkets in England. The first thing I noticed was the same brand of pasta that we stock up with on our trips across the channel. The second thing was the tins of Campbells condensed mushroom soup, which in England has been rebranded as Batchelors, but here looks so very familiar.

I’m also really enjoying finding out what all food I’ve read about in my extensive library of American detective fiction actually is.  We found Saltines which were like salty cheese biscuits, only nicer.  And then there was the cornbread which we found by the soup.  From that I assumed from that that cornbread went with soup, but Linda said only really bean soup or Chilli.  We thought it tasted more like a slightly grittier Madeira cake.  It was jolly good, but I think I’d have it as pudding not a savoury course.

The last thing on my list to try so far is Grits.  I have no-idea what they are although I’ve read about them a lot.  Green Chilli Grits were one of the breakfast options at the Holiday Inn, but I thought perhaps something which was labelled green chilli might be a mistake for breakfast.

There are also just a couple of things that I’ve never heard of before but I don’t really fancy trying…

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