The Mall Experience

A couple quick facts for you about grocery stores in Maastricht:

• Eggs aren't refrigerated in the store
• When buying produce, you must weigh it yourself and print out a little sticker that says what the weight of the product is.
• Cool American is a type of Doritos that tastes pretty good... but it is nothing like Cool Ranch like I thought
• I learned that a lot of people put chocolate baking sprinkles on their buttered toast. Don't knock it before you try it, it's yummy.
•  Be careful when translating the bread you're buying. Gabby misspelled a word and we thought for a little while that the bread said something about eating people.

After all that people-eating mistranslation fun, you might be hungry. Luckily, the mall has a couple nice little eateries. It will help you to know that you don't really get to customize what you want in Dutch restaurants. Gabby had an experience where she went to a sandwich shop and noticed two sandwiches- one was no pickles, with cheese and the other was with pickles, no cheese. She asked for the with pickles and asked "May I also have some cheese on that?" after which she  was abruptly shot down by the reply "No."
I thought it was funny (and an isolated incident) until I went to Mcdonald's and ordered a sundae. They had chocolate, caramel, and strawberry. I asked if I could get a chocolate AND caramel sundae and the lady behind the counter just said "No."
It's still pretty funny how they just shoot you down.
As they say we're not in Kansas anymore.