Pomme de reinette et pomme d'api...

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This is a children's song that I have known most of my life.  Yesterday, I was at the grocery store to buy apples to make a pumpkin soup with the pumpkin I received as a gift.  (My dear friend arrived for lunch hauling a huge, weighty potiron, as they call them here). Imagine my surprise when I saw pommes de reinette!  They're real!  Never saw them in Canada but hey, here, they are commonplace.

What else is commonplace on large grocery store shelves of France you ask?

- inexpensive pie crust, you want it, you got it: pate brisée, pate feuilletée... all rolled up and ready to use, my sister would be in pie crust heaven;
- creme fraiche to die for... so much more delicious than sour cream;
- two aisles of yogurt, fromage frais and other dairy desserty things... all your heart could ever desire in every flavour and format;
-Pulco, a yummy juice made with spring water and very little sugar, relatively speaking;
- More kinds and cuts of meat, sausage, pate than you could shake a stick at;
-WINE, Champagne, beer... SO much cheaper than home...
-Bonne Maman jam.  Need I say more?
-CHEESE;
-Other (use your imagination)


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