So what am I doing reviewing a grocery store chain in Amsterdam? If you'd experienced the grocery…read morestores in the U.S., you'd get why. Imagine a store that has better and healthier produce and goods than say Whole Wallet, er, sorry, Whole Foods, but has the pricing of Aldi. Stunning, that's what the availability of the food is here. And most of it comes from within the country.
The Netherlands is one of the top food producing countries in the world, you read that right. Traveled by their massive greenhouses once on a high speed train and they're as far as you can see for what seemed like an hour. So yes, a LOT of them. This country has their collective shit together. And, you can get all that good produce, sustainably packaged most of the time, right at Albert Heijn. The locals just don't get it, and if you've lived here all your life, why would you?
But there's more, the number of great tasting, healthy choices here, reasonably priced to my mind, have few equals in my travels. Food here is simply better tasting, fresher, hasn't traveled as far. What an impressive difference. How sad that I'm returning to the old subsidiary of Kroeger where I live. Ugh.
