Grocery Shopping and Eating In in Paris
August 6, 2016
This is part 2 of my Eating Out in Paris journal entry. Some pics by ga_gra.
So, you keep on eating out like you're getting paid to do it because you're caught in the predicament that all the Pinterest-famous food is within a 5-mile radius.
More Boeuf Bourguignon. Mostly available in the Latin Quarter around the area of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, right across from the Notre Dame Cathedral.
A Turkish pastry store in the Shakespeare and Company area, right across from the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Amorino Ice Cream. They have shops set up all around the touristy areas.
Food from a truffle bar in Le Bon Marché.
Then you realize that you really have to make some changes so you won't starve later. You eat at a McDonald's. This is what it looks like:
You order on touch screens:
...the “Royale with Cheese”! Hahaa! Pulp Fiction, yo!
"Evian is spelled 'naive' backwards."
Then, you start buying your food from the local small shops:
Patisseries are all around the place but the best one we went to was L'Artisan Des Gourmands.
Here's another patisserie.
Produce from a local fruit shop.
You check out the grocery and realize the food they have is just like fancy eat-out food:
Some special butter.
Some next level cream cheese.
Some next level meat spread. Pâté de Campagne.
We read that it's illegal to bring this with you in flights to the US. 'don't know why. Maybe it's because they're dicks. 'kidding.
A "Pot of Creme". Next level pudding. They come in glass jars.
I stopped drinking milk recently because it made me fart bad. I tasted milk in Paris and it tasted awesome! Very different from what I'm used to in the US. So, I started drinking milk and farting again. I thought at first that maybe the more flavorful taste is just a placebo effect because it's different to me, but I realized that the “fresh” or “frais” milk isn't pasteurize.
They don't pasteurize their eggs here, too. You can just leave it out of the fridge like we do in the Philippines.
Groceries have a lot of pint can, high alcohol beer:
Cheap to mid-priced wine:
That goes with cheap but excellent herb-topped cheese:
You can also have for yourself some roast chicken potato chips:
...or duck bacon:
Daily fresh baked baguettes. Yes, fresh same-day baked in the store, not from a factory or some shit:
Things can get bloody with these blood sausages from the local butcher:
Tastes like a mild Filipino dinuguan.
Or you can have some rabbit:
Paris je t'aime.
