For example, a single white guy would come all the way to the Save Way or Super Store and wait in that long line up for just couple pounds of cheese and some Salami cold cut, bonless lean stake, couple apples and maybe a banana or an ice cream. No spices, no oil, no rice, or any other side dish
spending at most $20Few of us Somalis be it single or married would go to the grocery store and spend less then $100, 90% of it been on meat, the rest on potatoes, spices, bread, maybe the most healthy conscience of us would buy some milk or juice.
The only thing i grab from the Green-ery section or as they call it the fruits and the vegetables section , is, hot paper, potatoes and onion, maybe on my Green day i'd pick up corrindor leafs (Kamsare). And that takes me around 4 minutes at most.
I pass the Sea Food section where all the Chines are lined up eyeing the six legged monsters called Crab life once, this is the Zoo section for most Somalis, the only Somali in the Sea Food section is there for an under sea Safari , a tourist in a grocery store.
In the meat section( this the heaven for Somalis) I'd spend around 30 minutes, first the T-bone steaks, and then the Rib-eye steaks, then the ground beef , finally and reluctantly I'd pick up couple birds us Somalis weren't use to eat but have adopted to...
No sweets, no greens,
how do these white folks can spend only $20 at the grocery every day buying such a balanced food and at the end of the month gain 10lbs on their love handles , and us Somalis even get skinner..???
Is this the habit of buying food for most somalis or is it only me?
