One of the things I love to do when traveling abroad is to visit local supermarkets. It can be so revealing (啓発), providing you with valuable insight (見識) into the daily lives of the people who live there.
When it comes to supermarkets in America, the first thing that hits you is the size. They are HUGE (広大), the aisles wide enough to drive a Japanese compact car (軽自動車) down them.
The second thing that will impress, or shock, you is the amount of processed, instant and frozen food there is.
The frozen food section at our supermarket in Fukuoka looks like this:
The frozen food section at the Ralph’s in downtown Los Angeles looked like this:
What’s more, there were about six of these gigantic freezers. The frozen food section alone was bigger than our local Bon Repas supermarket.
It was the same with just about every section of the supermarket.
The cereal section at our local Bon Repas.
There were two walls of cereal at the Ralph’s in LA.
Chips at our local supermarket.
Chips at a supermarket in Palm Springs. There were so many different types, we couldn’t decide what to buy.