Yesterday, I had the pleasure of accompanying the Miami physics grad students to Jungle Jim's, which is a huge theme-park style international supermarket located in the nearby town of Fairfield. It was definitely the coolest (and strangest) grocery store I've ever been to, and I'd like to think I've been to my fair share of unique supermarkets.
Their front entrance was even bizarre.
Upon entering this monstrosity of a grocery store, I made an extremely important discovery.
FREE SPRINKLES?!?!?! With ice cream?!?! I liked this place already!
In the front of the store was the "American" section. Bor-ing.
However, there was a Campbell's Soup Can swinging above one of the aisles that was pretty cool. It kind of freaked me out when it started talking and swinging while I was underneath it, though.
While trying to find the international section, we came across a little slice of home.
We were told repeatedly to check out the bathrooms in this place. When we came across them, I wasn't terribly impressed at first glance.
Upon entering, however, I was in for a bit of a shock.
After getting lost a couple of times (this place was flipping HUGE), we finally made it to the international section.
The King was there to greet us.
Along with the Amish, the Trix Rabbit and the Lucky Charms Leprechaun.
If you look closely, you can see the bumper cars. Now that's what I call creative recycling.
Mmmmm...chocolate...*drool*.
Holy peanuts Batman. I actually saw people with these monsters in their carts, and that begs the question: can you ever have too many peanuts?
I guess not!
These were hot. Literally and figuratively.
We happened across some huge watermelon that were bigger than most 3-month old babies. That's my lovely fiance in the picture to illustrate the colossal size of these melons, in case you couldn't guess.
I had no clue what these things were, but they were the fruits/veggies from hell. After attempting to cradle it in my arms for a picture, I discovered they were too heavy and painful to hold so I thought it best to just step away and take a picture from afar.
Mini-pineapples!
Yum, tasty joy.
I guess Asians like their soy sauce in gas cans. That's a lot of soy sauce, mind you.
This ice cream was juuuuuussssstttt right!
I wonder if all of these fortune cookies in the enormous bags have the same fortune? Probably along the lines of: "If you buy this giant bag of fortune cookies, you will achieve much wealth and prosperity".
The international side of the store was broken up into sections according to country and/or region. There was everything from Irish to Mexican to Indian to German to Bulgarian foods. And that wasn't even half of the nationalities that were represented. My favorite so far was the Indian section, probably because I'm a little bit biased.
The Europeans have some interesting and delicious sweets. Which was dangerous, because I wanted to buy them all.
Always a German favorite.
As if having "American" and international sections weren't enough, there was also a section just for our furry friends. I wonder if my cats would have taken a liking to this:
With much resisted temptation, we ended up with a cart partly filled with goodies from around the world.
We only had an hour to spend there, which was definitely not enough time to adequately explore this place. There will be a return trip, probably next week when I run out of my mini-bananas and need to satisfy my craving.
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