7 Comments

So strangely, when I go to a new place I love not just going to the grocery store - but looking at the price of meat??? I don't even buy meat, but I know what it costs! And that is my unusual proxy for affordability wherever I am.

Summerween made me uneasy and not even the picture gave me the slightest clue what was to come.

Expand full comment

Wait, I feel like I knew this about the meat thing. You should probably trademark the Riccardi Intercontinental Meat Index before someone else gets to it first.

Expand full comment

HUGE grocery store and pharmacy tourist, esp love a foreign country‘s version of 7/11 / late night convenience stores. I’m there for the snacks, candy, and lighting technology

Expand full comment

7-11 tourism!!!

Expand full comment

For me, it’s a barber shop/salon. I spent a weirdly timed layover in Ecuador getting my nails done. As in, I fully left the airport and walked to a salon 10 minutes away with my luggage to do this. But I spent hours just yapping with the technicians and watching the reggaeton Youtube on their flatscreen, and it was one of the most memorable parts of my trip!

Expand full comment

Also, I was the first to guess that a kiss beats gasoline.

Expand full comment

And I just notched a new one! Elizabeth Warren beats billionaires.

Expand full comment