Blog: benperry.net

News of E coli-tainted hamburgers from Lidl hospitalizing seven French kids yesterday reminded me of "America Week" last week at my local Lidl, Germany's hyper cheap grocery chain. Lidl often has ethnic themed weeks (Greek, Scandinavian, "Asian", Italian, French, etc., assuming "American" is an ethnicity) when they stock limited food items firmly based on national stereotypes. AMERIKAWOCHE and McENNEDY brand foods are no different. Every America Week that comes around (about twice a year, I think) comes with newly imagined American products that-much like the German words Handy, [...]