The melting pot that is my grocery store

Living a block away from the most diverse grocery store I've ever seen has its perks!  In addition to normal grocery aisles, there are aisles dedicated to different countries/regions, including Greece, India, the Middle East, Brazil, and Latin America.  I can't help but walk down all of these aisles each time I come in and stare at all sorts of products that you'd never find in a normal grocery store... many of which, of course, I've never seen or heard of.  Take the Indian aisle for instance -- there are probably 40 different types of grains being sold, of course none of them with instructions (or at least not in english).  I see some google searches in my future!

It's great to have so much selection to choose from (like 8 different fresh fetas at the deli counter) and to find items we usually can't find (like Yellow Label tea!) plus unbelievable prices (at least in comparison to our Manhattan grocery days), but I admit it does get a little confusing when you're looking for something basic like coffee and there are 6 different aisles to find it in... no joke!  Different coffee bags can be found in the greek, brazilian, middle eastern, latin american, general, and deli aisles...  It took probably 3 trips to locate all of the different aisles that we can find coffee in!

But I wouldn't trade this grocery store in for any other in the world!