Meat Departments

I took Aidan grocery shopping with me today. We discovered something I had only read about. Americans, I’m told, like their food pristine. Especially our meat. We like our meat cut up and prepared “in white coffins covered in plastic.” Not so the Europeans (and perhaps most of the rest of the world.) While noticing that the store doesn’t have the same selection of meats every day, I didn’t notice before the skinned whole animals in the meat department. Today I saw the rabbits and I poked Aidan and said, “Hey, look at that.” You should have seen his face… classic. We also found the octopus in the frozen section. Quite a selection here.

After the shopping, I took him to my morning bar and gave him his first cappuccino. He pestered my for it all the way there – even though I tried to convince him he’d like milk with coffee better. After drinking the whole thing, on the way home, he agreed that maybe next time he’ll try the milk with coffee.