I'm a simple emigrant and I immediately search for local equivalents in products

Usually I don’t complicate my life and settle into a comfortable routine quickly and pleasantly. And since a big part of this feeling is food, I immediately started getting to know local equivalents and stocked up on everything in ordinary supermarkets. Moving to Asia in this respect would be much harder, but the German cuisine is kept up by our three native pillars: meat, potatoes, and bread. Despite that, for some products I still go to a “Russian” supermarket. For example, among dumplings I only like the little ones from the “Russian” store, the same with sour cream as a substitute for Schmand, and with curd snacks and whatever is sold under their name at Lidl—goodness gracious. Curds from local supermarkets are some kind of joke. It’s as if the street vendors heard about these curds a hundred times, then came and made them exactly as they heard. And there you can also buy tasty ice cream or buckwheat in packets right away. But I don’t go there just for that. Mostly I’m drawn to mix-markets for things that are hard to find elsewhere. For example, frozen sea buckthorn with cranberries, croutons or the spice khmeli-suneli, and also suluguni cheese and kosichka (braided) cheese. Childhood sweets also sometimes call to me, especially Oreshki cookies, zephyr (marshmallow), Choco Pie, and sushki with baranki. And yes, before the move I wouldn’t say I was a fan of baranki. By the way, all my life I thought Choco Pie was brought to us from Europe, but it turned out it’s actually Asian and wasn’t really exported to Europe. But all these three bags of groceries go only with the two kings of shopping: doshirak and mors. I don’t know how doshirak imprintored itself so strongly in my brain, because in general I can’t eat instant noodles. The smell of many of them makes me nauseous right away, but doshirak. This is why I’m willing to get up and go to a distant store, even though I eat it maybe a couple of times a year. And mors is a drink of the gods; I don’t understand why it hasn’t spread around the world, in my hometown you can even buy mors at a burger place, and here in decent places the alternative to Fanta and Coke is Fanta mixed with Coke. So tell me, which products do you still drive to special stores for? And in general, how do you feel about food? #food #emigrant_happiness