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Originally Posted by jeff5may
They are smaller because the Europeans take pride in using fresh ingredients for meals and cooking from scratch in no time flat. In the time it would take me to make mac and cheese from a box and nuke some green giant vegetables, any self respecting Frenchman or Italian would have already made dinner for 4 and ate half of it.
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My wife likes to say that the French shop for fresh food almost daily.
What can I say, if I lived within walking distance of an open air market, I would too. As it is, I expect my 'fresh' fruits and vegetables to last close to a week in the fridge.