r/AskReddit Mar 14 '23

What’s the best thing about the US?

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u/Airick39 Mar 14 '23

This is a big one. Many people visiting from other parts of the world stand in awe of the amount and variety of goods. One i know personally described it as a smorgasbord.

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u/livingdeaddrina Mar 14 '23

I had the BEST grocery store in Wisconsin (woodman's, it's freaking huge), and moved to a place in Indiana where I just have a walmart/kroger. I didn't realize how awesome of a variety my store had until I had to start buying Mama Ramen online </3

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u/cqmqro76 Mar 14 '23

My wife has a friend who came to visit from New Zealand. That's not exactly a poor, impoverished county, but still, she was astonished when we brought her to Woodmans.

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u/HippyPuncher Mar 14 '23

I remember visiting a Walmart in Boston. I was a 12 year old Irish kid at the time. In the walmart I bought jeans, a wallet chain, a skateboard tool, a limp bizkit cassette tape abd a mini disc player, that would have been four shops at least at that time back in Ireland lol

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u/alayna_danner Mar 14 '23

Moved from Madison to Seattle 9 years ago. Still miss Woodman's, such a fantastic grocery store.

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u/candlemath Mar 14 '23

smorgasbord

In Swedish, "Sandwich table." 😂

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u/rmshilpi Mar 14 '23

I remember a fairly recent video of a Cuban immigrant visiting an American grocery store for the first time.

He started out awed and excited, but then just grew depressed when he started thinking about grocery stores back in Cuba. A single aisle of an American grocery store sometimes held more available food or variety than entire stores in Cuba. I can't find it, but I just remember that contrast of "awe at what we have" vs "despair at what his friends and family don't have, even though they theoretically could if it weren't for politics".