Questionable Foods

One of my favorite things to do in a foreign country is to go to the grocery store. It's really a cultural experience in itself. Kat and I were doing a little pre-dinner shopping in Amsterdam and seeking pepperoni to put on our mock pizza, we came upon the lunch meats. Our discovery was too great that we had to get photographic evidence. Look at it! It's different meats compressed into the face of a bear! The face of a freaking bear! It was however, rather cheap at only 79 cents.

The alternative traditional Dutch sandwich for a young child is that of peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles, called hagelslag, smeared on toast. We have discovered that a big box of these sprinkles also works wonderfully on ice cream, with peanut butter and apples, and on top of the granola we have been carrying on our bikes from Copenhagen.

In fact, speaking of toting certain foods across several boarders, our friend Skip was walking across America last year. Walking. He generously tried to offer us his dried lentils that he had been carrying on his back from Virginia to Texas. Haha, I suppose for long distance travelers there is just one food item that seems like a good idea to have, yet is never eaten and yet can't be thrown away.

The one food item that Kat and I both miss a great deal is the Danish Rye bread that is super cheap all over the country. The beautiful thing about this bread is not the taste. It is the amazing amount of fiber that they pack into one loaf. Seriously, intestines have never had it so good as after a large sandwich made with Danish Rye. I would absolutely love to find a recipe for it because ever since we took that ferry over to Germany, there has been no fiber love to speak of. None.