>
> And as long as I'm on THAT subject, let me
add that you have insane amounts of different
brands and flavors and textures for things. I
mean, if you want to get peanut butter around
here, you get peanut butter. Stores mostly
have one brand only. But in the US, you have
dozens of brands and normal, creamy,
chunky, chocolate, natural etc. etc.
>
> Trav"Which one do I waaaant?? AAAAAaah,
too many choices!"holt.

I hear that often about American
supermarkets. I've heard stories of people
having relatives from foreign countries come
here to visit, and when they happen to go
shopping somewhere, the foreign relatives
are awestruck by our supermarkets. I know
one guy whose relatives started taking
pictures of the inside of the store, and they just
could not believe how much food we had
availble, how many different kinds of food, and
how many different brands of the kinds of
foods we have.

I've also read books about the Cold War that
one way the US Government would convince
Russians to defect to the US would be to take
them and show them our stores. Often times,
our supermarkets are what made up the
minds of these people to defect from the
Soviet Union.

The Other "Personally, I like having a million
different brands of toothpaste available. It
means lots of people are making money.
Which is good." Matthew