fer-e-ner

Next time you go to the grocery store and are at the dairy section check out all the different milk. There is skim milk, 1% milk, 2% milk, whole milk, buttermilk, that coffee mate creamer stuff, half and half, rice milk, soy milk, whipping cream...it is all there.  It is quite easy to take for granted that you know what it all is. 

My biggest grocery store dilemma so far is the milk aisle.  Imagine all of the above listed milks with Japanese labels, like here.  I have the most difficult time figuring out how to buy skim milk. I had a little tutorial today with a friend. She showed me that on the back you can read these percentage points that say, for example, 1.5% may be listed on the back and that is the closest to skim I have gotten. 

In addition, some of the milk here will say 70% or some other number indicating it is milk and something else.  Something else being ??? soy milk I guess.  Don't know.  

So, next time you are at the store appreciate your ability to speak the language. And next time you see a fer-e-ner realize how exhausting just buying milk is