I’m getting pretty good at buying food in foreign countries.
The challenge is, how do you know it’s what you want to buy when you can’t read the words on the package?
Here’s my first tip: If it looks like an egg, it’s probably an egg.
My second tip, when you need goat cheese, find the cheese, then look for pictures of goats.
My third tip, if you still don’t know what it is, ask the person standing next to you.
But how do you know the person standing next to you is a local and not another foreigner like you?
Foreigners Buying Food
Sunday I was in a Tallinn grocery store.
The next item on my list was the spice tumeric.
The problem was, I didn’t see the word “tumeric” on any of the packages and there were several yellow spices.
So, what to do?
Of course, your fearless teacher asked the woman standing next to him for help.
When talking to strangers, I used to first ask, “Do you speak English?”
But I stopped asking that question because it seems everyone does.
Next, I asked, “Are you Estonian?”
Her answer: “No.”
It happened again!
(Long-time Vitamin V readers will remember that this exact situation happened to me before in Georgia and almost the same in Bulgaria.)
HI !
Again, You are very funy ! De
When You are in a foreign country,and you want to buy some food from the market,it’s enough to look at the images of products,and you will know what to but.
Simple ,No ???
Cheers !
Gabriel
Put on your English and go ahead! Do not take out your smile and be your own!
It is easier to stik at eggs and goat cheese than asking for spicy Things Bayer ständig next to you
This is good one. When I was in Prague at the restaurant with my children and ordered the bill we got dessert. My son was ashamed and said “it’s your english”! MY english was the reason, even the waitress didn’t speak english almost at all. 🌞 Well, now I try to prove it.
*improve
Ha!
a similar situation is now with me in Israel, I can’t even read these fun letters from right to left
funny incident
🙂
Well,
it happened to me also in Romania years ago, but today we use smartphones, which can help us. One possibility is to use Google Translate or just show the photo of the item to someone local and help yourself by using your hands to explain.
Good! Keep enjoying the Estonian summer and feel good!
Tumeric…aha! In this part of Globe we call it curcumian. Tumeric…
Curcumin 🙂
Why not, eggs and goat cheese is not a bad choice.
You are funny 😉🙋♀️🌴