Sour Cream

I love susie's big adventure in general, but this part really hit home. MY boyfriend must have said this same thing about sour cream in Beijing about a hundred times. (I'm not so much with sour cream but I felt like this about other foods).

You can find just about anything you want - or at least a reasonable substitute for - in the groceries and vegetable markets here, but there are some items that are scarce and very difficult to find. Short of going to several different markets, which my husband refuses to do, to satisfy my gastronomic desires, we end up grocery shopping at only one store, which may not have everything I may want. Like sour cream, for example. The Arabs simply do not use sour cream. They use some products that are similar, but they are NOT sour cream. I know that there are a few shops here that carry real sour cream, but we don’t do our regular shopping at those places, so I do without sour cream. Okay, okay, I know I probably shouldn’t have it anyway, but still, sometimes I would just like to have some sour cream - is that so wrong?

We didn't have to bring Susie's husband along, though, so we made a lot of trips to out-of-the-way import markets for sour cream and cheese.

Via susie's big adventure: I HATE SHOPPING IN SAUDI ARABIA!