So here's my first impression of the Dutch experience of the grocery store. There are four major categories of things you can buy: 1. Meat. Not American style meat, mind you, which is mostly beef and chicken, but Dutch style meat, which is mostly, well, bologna I guess. Or something that looks like bologna, except more pink. A lot of it is pate, I guess. Like a hotdog, except really really pink. 2. Cookies/Cakes. There were as many varieties of cookies, etc. as there were kinds of bologna. Instead of one isle dedicated to that stuff, I'd say there were about three. 3. Bread. Fresh baked and super cheap. The best thing was, at the bottom of the shelf, neglected, unwanted, a large loaf of what Americans would know as "Texas Toast" entitled "American Toast Bread" or something. Ha! We got a baguette and some other kind of bread that Anne doesn't like (which means I probably will). 4. Cheese, of course. Wow are there a lot of kinds of cheese, or kaas, as it's known in the Native Tongue. We got some with little flecks of something in it. Maybe dill. It is good.
Anne managed to find some vegetarian friendly fake schnitzel, which was basically a fake chicken patty. We got some fries or "frites" and some creamed spinach. We also got some fake bologna and some fake pate! Ha! We had a pretty good dinner, all things considered, and watched some weird American show about some people in Alaska. There seems to be about two channels that have American TV with sub-titles. The worst of American TV, by all accounts. Oprah came on at about 6, I guess. We watched Grey's Anatomy instead, which wasn't bad, except it's about Doctors, which is gross. (Not that Doctors themselves are gross. Just their jobs).At about 6:00 p.m. after being up for a long time, we had had enough and were ready for bed. We managed to keep it going until 7:00 when we had to give in.
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