View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
[email protected][_2_] itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 11,473
Default Amy Alkon: "Grocery Luxury -- For All"

On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 2:58:12 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>
> Also, you may want to check out the comment by Conan the Grammarian - he included a link to an article about Boris Yeltsin's 1989 visit to an American supermarket (in Houston?) and how astounded he was.
>
> Lenona.
>
>

I didn't read the article but when Khrushchev visited here in the late
50's and visited a supermarket he thought it had been staged. He didn't
believe there was that much food or variety in American grocery stores.