Saturday, January 13/2018

Apart from the obvious - fresh fruit and vegetables all winter - there are quite a few differences between what is available at supermarkets here and at home. For example J comes home from Lidl - which is only a medium sized store - with a packet of gnocchi filled with pesto. An unlikely find in most Canadian supermarkets I frequent, especially unfrozen. 

And I often think of Mr Czekaj in Hudson, who spoke English well enough but didn't really read or write it, asking us to identify the contents of a tin, as he was stuck when there was no picture on the label. Thus we're looking at a (glass) jar of yoghurt, trying to see if it is sheep - we're hoping it is - and I say to J you'd think they could put a picture of the animal on the label. Can read some words in Greek, and disproportionately food words, but the alphabet is different, of course, and the writing on products often minute.