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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Super Che's Turkish brother (updated with photos)

Yoghurt by the bucket
My favorite place in Valle de Bravo, Mexico two years ago was the very modern Super Che supermarket. Where else can you find 10,000 foods and lots of household items with labels in Spanish just below? It's better than a set of flash cards for learning the language.

Olives by the kilo
Last night Ladan found Ozdilet, a huge modern supermarket near the hotel where you can buy yoghurt by the bucketful (literally), olives in so many forms and varieties that I stopped counting and lots of other tasty foods. If you look at the photo there are 22 different bins of olives and this doesn't include the countless other forms of packaging. Frankly it's pretty confusing if you are used to simply picking up a jar of olives at the store.

FYI Turkish is definitely harder than Spanish but we're slowly wading into the pool of Turkish words and pronunciation. Interestingly, not many foods carried brand names that we recognized except for the obligatory Coke, Pepsi and Toblerone. We're headed back today for more.

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