The culture of food

We visited different grocery stores. At first we were at Stop N Go. It is like a shop at a gas station, small and expensive without fresh goods. Then we were in Krogers. It is a normal supermarket with an organic section.
Today we visited a Pipkins store. It looks like a German "Bioladen" with fresh organic vegetables and fruits. But the fruits did not only come from the region, but also from other states and countries, like Italy or Mexico. The customers there could find regional products also, like for example honey or cheese, but more expensive than in a supermarket. The sales person told us that advertising is not necessary, because they know the shop and come there extra, but the people need a car to reach this shop.

The second one, that we visited today was a real adventure, it was the "Jungle Jim" food market. We had an interesting tour with a lot of different possibilities to try some things, like cheese, meat, olives or salsa. The market is very big and impressive. It is a private company, which was built up in 1974. The owner started with a little stand at the street and the people called him because of his appearance with long hair like a man from the jungle "Jungle Jim". He called the company so, like a brand. The customers in this market were locals, aliens and immigrants, because of the special selection of food. But I think, it is not a destination for poor people, because it is more a delicatessen. Also this market is outside of the city and the customers have to go there by car.
Very impressive were the goods from all over the world. 14,000 different sorts of wine are available and hundred sorts of vegetables and fruits, some I have never seen before. I took hundreds of photos of the vegetables and fruits. I think at home I will prepare a big collage titled "The colours of fruit or ... of food" or like this.
They had different sections in the market with special food from different countries. Before our trip we assumed, what would be the typical German food, and we found this: dark bread, sauerkraut and dumplings and different products of Dr. Oetker, Maggi and Knorr.
The sections had signs with the name of the country, where the products are from. And there were typical big figures, like Robin Hood for England and some elephants for India.
Thank you very much for the impressive trip to a kind of American culture.

I think the socio-economic status of the customers here is the same like in Germany too. The more expensive and healthy food is bought by the people with more income and the more processed and cheaper food is bought by the people with lower status in supermarkets.