One good thing about North Cyprus - and many other places - is that it’s easy to buy things in small units. For example one half litre bottle of beer. Though have to admit that this is true of European and British beer at home as well. Just not in (though sometimes right beside) grocery stores. And yes, am forgetting Quebec where beer and wine are also regarded as accompaniments for a meal *rather than intoxicants and are sold in grocery stores. Here beer bottles have caps that can be removed with a handy pull tab. Rare to need a can opener for tinned vegetables either as most have pull tabs.
And here fruit and veg are never wrapped in plastic, always simply sold by weight. Not more expensive per kilo to buy two carrots if that’s what you want. Do know of one supermarket that actually has a milk dispenser outside so you could bring your own container. It’s not very close to us though, and we don’t really use a lot of milk except when making Irish soda bread.
This is Election Day in the US, and one the rest of the world is watching with more interest than usual. Seems slightly weird then to wake up and realise that it’s still yesterday in most of America. Polls not open. Final results not likely to be in until tomorrow morning in our time zone. There will be exit polls, though, with a couple of caveats. The first results will not be released until 5 pm Eastern Time - that’s midnight here - and exit polls results that will indicate a state’s winner are not released until all polling centres have closed in that state. Memories of the days in Canada when results from provinces to the east were not released until the polls had closed in the province of the watcher. Until modern telecommunications made nonsense of the restrictions.