I have a lot to say about my trip back to the US

[expatgirl]

But for now, just this:

American grocery stores are HUGE and FULL of STUFF, most of which I don't understand!

You know that scene in The Hurt Locker where Jeremy Renner's character stands, dazed, in a cereal aisle the size of a studio apartment while he tries to choose between 8 nearly identical kinds of frosted wheat? 

Yeah, that.  

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[aerialiste]

I cried once in Star Market in Boston for this reason, there were a hundred kinds of orange juice and I'd only been back in the states a few days after 2 years in the UK. (In my defense that particular Star Market was so huge they handed out maps when you came inside.) There's no culture shock like reverse culture shock, truly.