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The Finest Supermarket in Southwest Asia
So I lived in India for the first five and a half months of this year, in Goa, which is a major tourist destination. Yet somehow I couldn’t seem to find a proper supermarket, with all the fixins of home.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, but on my first visit to the “Finest Supermarket” which is on the edge of Taimani neighborhood/district of Kabul City, I was overwhelmed by the abundant options that abounded.
On our way to the Supermarket we encountered one of Kabul’s campaigning politicians:
After we made it past the overzealous “Pear candidate’s” staff, we set to work looking for the various western staples we needed to stock our guesthouse refrigerators. It’s amazing, but Kabul’s “Finest Supermarket” has a perfect selection of any American’s basic suburban needs:
As well as Ragu, the grocer stocks Campbell’s Soup, among a plethora of other canned and condensed necessities. Not only is the store well-stocked, they have futuristic shopping inventions such as the “shopping basket-rolling cart” hybrid, perhaps a Chinese or Japanese invention:
If all that wasn’t enough to assure you that this is truly the “finest supermarket in Southwest Asia,” you need only check out the second floor, glassware, chotchkies, DVDs, and Barbie!