I like to think of myself as an adventurous person, who takes on the challenge, moves to different countries, builds her life from scratch several times and not lastly tries out local food.
In reality though although I do not mind being disappointed in places or taking on the challenge that comes with moving and building a life, I do mind being disappointed with food. And here we are again, at my favorite topic.
While living in the Netherlands, I developed the custom of saying no to try out new cakes, cookies, or anything food related really. The truth is that most of the food in the Netherlands disappointed me and let me with a huge craving for a flavorful food. I could be happy with an ordinary street food that had actually had some taste. I love waffles but even those disappointed me as I hate the ones that comes with the sugar crumbs..instead I love the Belgian waffle that you cannot actually get in the Netherlands. There was one thing that left me a huge smile on my face every single time and I could rely on: olibollen of course....without sugar but with home made jam. The bad part was that you could only get it around Christmas. During the rest of the year, when I saw something I thought it might worth trying out, I mostly did not take the risk and just said that it would leave me disappointed me anyway, so why to risk it. And even with that, I did take the risk once in a while and guess what? I got disappointed.
But now I am in a different country, which is famous for its superior quality. No matter what you buy, food or something else, it supposed to be the best. Swiss people in general mostly buy Swiss products because they truly believe in the superiority of quality plus they think why would they give money to any foreign companies.
But back to food.Obviously, the selection of food is very different from the one you can get in the Netherlands. It has Swiss, German, French and Italian influence combined with Swiss quality. I love it! Not only the fact that until that point I was disappointed only once but the variety is huge and I need to eat my way through of it.
My rule when visiting a new country is try out a new small piece of food every time I go to the supermarket. When living in a new country it's a bit different obviously because you have more time to go through the selection of a supermarket.
My other rule what one should consider is when to relocate to a foreign country..I would say when one has bought/tried out basically all kinds of food available in a supermarket that's a sign of considering moving to another country.
I enjoy living here and I am hoping for having many years to achieve this.
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