Martin is not in Madrid

I love French cheese. They make so many different types, so many tastes. It’s so good. Always when I go to France, I import them. A lot of them. I spend every time a lot of money to bring at least some of them back home. Luckily, my roommate told me that they have a good selection of French cheese in Makro, so I finally have a good place for cheese.

Caroline, Patrick’s sister eating cheese

When I was in Paris, and lived in Patrick’s family, his mum was feeding us with cheese, so I felt like in heaven! [-;

I really think that people should care more about quality of food they eat. Cheap food is tasteless. Some time ago I had the chance to taste Tesco branded cheap salami. And it was horrible. I wouldn’t write it further, but I didn’t like it at all. I think in general in the past years, the quality of food sold here is worse and worse. And it is specially caused by big supermarket chains like namely Tesco, Penny or even worse Lidl. You almost cannot find any good shop with vegetables, bakeries are also worse and worse just to keep prices down. Just luckily, there are still some good butchers around. But absolutely the quality is going down.

You can complain that we have that bio thing, but this is bullshit. These so called bio quality foods are just overpriced stuff. They can be good, but c’mon, paying three times more is also not good. I reckon that this mania is caused by lowering the quality of foods in the past years. Just make it nicer looking. Tasteless? It’s ok, it just has to look good. I think that the solution would be if people producing the vegies stop taking care only about how big things do they make, but start care about the taste instead.

Special case of bad supermarket is Tesco. They never have good vegies. I would never buy any meat there. They are always cheating when having something else written on price tags, and something else is charged to you at the counter. I really hate their Tesco branded everything. This food is the worst ever, and just labeled by Tesco to be sold easier. And the saddest thing is that Tesco bought local French Carrefour supermarkets. Carrefour was good! They cared about things at the time. Sadly the business was what they don’t know, so they not really failed here, but rather moved to Asia.

Ok, these were complains about English, but this is understandable. Can you imagine some good English food? I cannot. Fish and Chips. LOL. But sadly German discount supermarket chains like Lidl and Penny are even worse. They even don’t care about normal or let’s say local producers. They just bring the cheapest thing available, no matter other factors. I was in Lidl once. And I had to laugh. I saw some coke bottle. It looked exactly like Coca Cola, but the brand was different. Until you came closer, you couldn’t recognize the difference! Also everywhere labels like “We are cheaper!”. This is horrible propaganda. Specially when thinking that this company is evil. After some affairs like cutting down trees around their shops to be seen better (illegally), or flatting down one historical building in Přerov because of new supermarket on it’s place (again illegally). Or think about Tesco, and it’s policies and how they are to the producers. Horrible! The worst companies here.