unpredicatble it is... the weather in March is often termed "Gizh Mart" or "Crazy March" so I think everyone was waiting for this storm. The streets are beautiful outside and it does indeed look like a winter wonderland. Unfortunately we all know that the streets will soon turn into piles of mud!
So this weekend I went grocery shopping and found that many of my essential items can be found in Yerevan. If you go to the SAS supermarket on Tumanian street or Europe on Tpagrichner you can find yourself blueberries (imported from Mexico and cost around $8.00 per small packet), caramel sauce (I didn't know Heinz made caramel sauce), Special K red berries cereal, and even crocodile meat which costs an arm and a leg. I also learned that Julia makes the best kahlua ever! Yummy!
So this weekend I went grocery shopping and found that many of my essential items can be found in Yerevan. If you go to the SAS supermarket on Tumanian street or Europe on Tpagrichner you can find yourself blueberries (imported from Mexico and cost around $8.00 per small packet), caramel sauce (I didn't know Heinz made caramel sauce), Special K red berries cereal, and even crocodile meat which costs an arm and a leg. I also learned that Julia makes the best kahlua ever! Yummy!
posted by Arina at 3:01 PM
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I just returned from Armenia and was impressed with SAS supermarket too.. they don't follow you round like a bad smell in there either, and the staff are great, I got to taste test some Armenian fruit juices. hehe.
They deliver too..am I advertising...dont mean to..but well done to them I guess. My western friend found everything he wanted, at lower prices than the UK :)
SAS is actually just one of many new supermarkets that are almost at par with international ones. Yet still pricey compared to other supermarkets. Last year new cafes were the "in" thing, this year it's supermarkets.
By the way, Heinz also has Salsa! WOO-HOO! A little sweet, but mixes well with my homemade one. (I just hope whoever is importing it from Russia doesn't stop anytime soon. In Armenia there is a tendency to find something and get all excited about it, but a few weeks down the road the importer is not brining it anymore.)
All the new supermarkets in town were the one thing that stood out when I returned to Armenia last December (and I had only been away from the country for four months...). That seemed to be the biggest change in those couple of months.
Another crocodile sighting in Yerevan last night! There is a whole one lying in the fridge of Galaxy supermarket on Kievyan as well. And yes, Arina, you are right: it does cost an arm and a leg!! Who would buy corocodile meat?!?!?! Is it really such a delicacy?
Tasted like chicken to me. I've tried it a couple of times in Canada ... I can't afford the ones they sell here. ENOUGH CROC TALK! :-)
One of the things I've realized in Armenia is that people want to own things that others can't have. I once heard a comment that Christmas trees were so expensive so that only the wealthy could afford to buy and decorate them. This may be our same crowd who buys crocodile meat :-). On the bright side, SAS has started selling flour tortillas and peanut butter (Skippy brand). People must think I eat like a khoz!
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