Thursday, January 04, 2007

A photo-essay: Picard Frozen Food Store

Though it looks like the sign says "Picard... A Place for Surgeries", a more accurate translation is: "Picard... A Really Neat Store That Sells All Sorts of Cool Frozen Foods and If They Open One in Seattle, Trader Joe's and Costco Will Be in Trouble"Through the front door...
Grab a cart... maybe Lee shouldn't be in charge?
Nothing but freezer chests...
...labeled and arranged in the order of your five-course meal:
The soups...
The potato products...
The meats... there are other parts to a five-course meal, but these are the three food-groups I focus on.
Photos and prices displayed above the case -- and more photos on all the products. Ceil examines a variety pack of petit-fours.
Shrimp or scallops in olive oil with garlic... in the back, scary fish-sticks
You choose: snails stuffed with green stuff or mussels stuffed with green stuff. How can you lose?
Grilled eggplant or a variety pack?
Shrimp anyone? Nothing from Odyssey Seafoods here... wonder if they need a local sales rep.
Duck legs, stuffed with fois gras. The French know how to live.
A moment of doubt: Andy, I think we've bought enough. No way, francais.Not a nice thing to say about green beans, but wrapping them in bacon helps
Miles and Lee double-checking that we've covered the dessert aisle closely enough.
The cart is looking good... note the Chocolate Fudge Volcano Cakes: a taste sensation AND second degree burns on the roof of your mouth! Yummm...
On line to check out. Note the woman digging through her wallet -- the French are zealots for exact change. Go on, lady, take another twenty minutes... I'm sure you've got the thirty-seven cents in there somewhere... we'll wait.
And the best part... making the kids carry the booty home! I'm every bit as mean as they say I am.

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