Baby Jack at the Supermarket

Today we went to the Family Food Center, a local grocery store that is AMAZING! It is where I will do my shopping from now on. There is a bakery inside, a deli counter that offers lots of olives, pickles, cheeses, etc. and a huge produce section. One of the first things we saw in the produce section was...a Jack fruit! Of course we had to take a picture of Jack with the Jack fruit.

One of the ladies who works there explained to us that the large one is like a fruit and the small one is more like a vegetable. Also, the seeds are sold separately and can be boiled, peeled and eaten as a sweet treat...so we got some of those.

You can imagine our delight when we saw that the small fruit is called a "Baby Jack" fruit! :-) They come from Sri Lanka.

The produce is unbelievable. There are so many different kinds of eggplants, cucumbers, bananas and numerous other things. We are going to try something new each time we go to the store.

As is the case wherever we go, Jack was a star at the store. The Asian women at the deli counter loved him! One said, "Look at his eyes....he have Chinese eyes!" :-) Another woman asked us if we were new here, since she had never seen us before. She asked us to come back often so she could see Jack. She let us taste lots of things like goat cheese from Lebanon, pickled vegatables, etc. Jack loved the soft goat cheese. The Indian men who bag groceries also liked Jack...as you can kind of see (despite their somewhat blank expressions)!

Love and hugs from a haven of interesting foods....

Josh, Kam and "Baby Jack" :-)