Everything is BIG in America. Big food portions, big malls, big supermarkets, big quantities of everything, and big people. For people like me, a BIG advantage in that is there's no lack of BIG clothes to buy. It's a norm to find large sizes, a nice change from shopping back home, where clothes-makers think all asians are 'petite' sized. I went to a BIG supermarket today called Shaws and my jaw dropped when I saw their campbell's soup section. Here's why...
The cans are placed in dispenser shelves (they're placed horizontally and stacked on top of each other such that when you pull one out, the next one naturally falls to take its place) and there are SO MANY different types of soup I've never seen before. Some of the unique flavours are: Split pea ham and bacon; tomato bisque; chicken mushroom barley, just to name a few. They're not cheap though. A can of regular mushroom soup costs about usd1.59-1.79! Also, one of my favourite sections, the breakfast cereal shelves, are filled with so many different types of cereals that I get giddy looking at all of them! And they're so CHEAP! 5 boxes for usd$10! I now have a stash of 4 different types of Kellog's cereal in my kitchen cupboard, which brings to mind the image I have from TV's Seinfeld, who kept a whole row of different cereal boxes in the same fashion (more or less).
Bus stop on BU campus along Commonwealth Ave
The cans are placed in dispenser shelves (they're placed horizontally and stacked on top of each other such that when you pull one out, the next one naturally falls to take its place) and there are SO MANY different types of soup I've never seen before. Some of the unique flavours are: Split pea ham and bacon; tomato bisque; chicken mushroom barley, just to name a few. They're not cheap though. A can of regular mushroom soup costs about usd1.59-1.79! Also, one of my favourite sections, the breakfast cereal shelves, are filled with so many different types of cereals that I get giddy looking at all of them! And they're so CHEAP! 5 boxes for usd$10! I now have a stash of 4 different types of Kellog's cereal in my kitchen cupboard, which brings to mind the image I have from TV's Seinfeld, who kept a whole row of different cereal boxes in the same fashion (more or less).
Bus stop on BU campus along Commonwealth Ave
4 comments:
I love Honey Smacks and Corn Pops! Ultimate combo. Hope school's been fun so far!
did you buy any soup in the end? My favorite's campbells chunky chicken noodle soup! yummy! look out for coupons in Sunday's papers, they usually offer discounts on campbell soups!
No I didn't buy any soup in the end cos I didn't want to pay so much! Erm, I don't buy the papers. I get the free copy of METRO a commuter paper which is pretty good, and I get the Boston Globe but only on days when I go to school cos it's free there. I'm too cheap to buy daily papers lah. I haven't gotten over the currency exchange yet!
Ah Liang,
I LOVE Honey smacks and Corn Pops! The former is pretty difficult to find in Singapore...School's ok...Interesting. I'm shooting my first photo essay this week. Gotta produce one each week! Can die! I'll would've shot more pix essays in this semester than my 11 years at ST!
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