Grocery Store

At the request of my brother-in-law, who is a major foodie, I am showing the Grocery store called Van den Tweel. It looks like every other grocery store you might see in America.  However, some things are in Dutch.  Thank God for photos or we would never know what were buying. 

The Dutch love their Gouda cheese.  This is a whole bin of Gouda. They sell it in big chunks.  All food is shipped into the island weekly.  Bonaire produces nothing except cactus booze.  Shipments come in on Friday.  Saturday is a big shopping day.

We were looking for canned tomatoes.  We couldn't tell whether the can was puree, sauce, whole tomatoes or chunks. Even our translator was not helping.  I will let you know what it turns out to be when we open it.

Here is the produce section.  The variety is not as plentiful as in America.  But they have what you need.  Citrus is big (oranges, pineapples, lemons, limes), apples, tomatoes, peppers, celery, carrots, onions, potatoes....the usual stuff. We got tomatoes from Tunisia, avocadoes from Mexico, yogurt from France.  The Dutch trade with all sorts of countries so you see products and produce from all over the world.  

The Chinese markets on the island carry all sorts of weird stuff.  Like these duck tongues...yuk! How many ducks had to die for this many tongues to be packaged. The Chinese markets also carry a lot of American labeled products like Hunts, Heinz, Coke, Pepsi, name brand shampoo, soap and cleaning products.