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I’ve seen folks at Wal-Mart with a few odd combinations in the check-out line. Protein shakes and toilet paper are fine separately, but look questionable when they’re the only thing in the basket. Ditto condoms and toothpaste. But if this BuzzFeed article is any indication, the mixing and matching can get to a whole new level of weird at Wal-Mart in China.
Like perhaps a baby turtle for your aquarium. Or your stir-fry – not really sure what the intention is there. Crocodiles and dried reptiles are also among the sixteen unique items BuzzFeed pointed out.
Hey, I might get a craving for Hot and Spicy Beef Granules, or maybe a dried, flattened pig face. And sometimes I don’t know what I want, in which case I might pick up something like what’s pictured to the right. (Not sure, but I imagine one would need Sigourney Weaver to help get it out to the car.)
But whatever I choose, at least I’ll know I got it at a rock bottom price.
Michelle Schusterman
Michelle is a musician, writer, and teacher just trying to see the world while doing what she loves for a living. She's taught ESL in Salvador, Brazil and kindergarten in Suwon, Korea, and now she's a full-time freelance writer living in Seattle (just to keep the city alliteration going). She'll try pretty much any food once and believes coffee is its own food group.
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I find the pig faces particularly disturbing.
Loved the line about Sigourney Weaver. I have NO idea what that one is either…
It’s crazy how people are just pawing through the raw meat in BuzzFeed’s third photo. I don’t think I’d shop from that bin.
It isn’t just WalMart-here is a thing I wrote about supermarkets in Shanghai– the photos are from the Tesco near my home. I remember shopping at Tesco’s in London a decade ago…the ones in England are nothing like this! I didn’t even post the tubs full of live eels and frogs, or the counter dedicated to stinky (aged, fermented, rotten) tofu– like a fine French cheese, apparently: http://www.ephemeraanddetritus.com/2010/04/25/101-things-about-shanghai/
Huh, interesting. Silly Wal-Mart.