The routine act of going to do bought It ends up becoming an authentic experience when you do it in another country. Surely many, when planning a trip, consider stopping at a market and when they are already at their … destination, they go buy water or a snack and end up turning the visit into a supermarket in a moment to discover cultural clashes.
The same thing happens to those who move to Spain and see our style while shopping. Currently, one American has experienced it firsthand. He is called Notch and has been living in Barcelona for two years and according to his account TikTok (@cataloniawithnick) He explains his daily life and how he learns Spanish and Catalan.
Recently he explained his joy at discovering that he could buy a whole Iberian ham and they would cut it for you, a post that had a big impact on him, and last week he uploaded another video with another thing he had learned in Spain, which fascinated him and which referred to what many people do. grandmothers. With this video, it has already reached more than 65,000 views.
“I learned a new thing”
“Today I learned a new thing of life here in Spain”, he begins his video, explaining that he decided to start buying meat from butchers and corner stores and not the big chains and that he “had to learn how the queues work, which are crazy”. Nick adds that he had also just gone shopping and felt “lost” because “there was no ATM and it was packed”.
The North American explains that “a group of super nice Spanish grannies had made and They came to teach me How is it going? “When you arrive you have to ask who is the last one and someone answers you and you have to remember who it is and when the next one arrives they do the same and you answer the same way,” he tells his supporters with a face surprised by something to which, surely, we natives are more than accustomed.
“This is how a super superfixed tail begins to form and grandmothers keep order… “If anyone tries to sneak in…” he said with a laugh. After a while, Nick shows around ten people waiting in front of a butcher’s shop and points out that “it’s magnificent. “It’s full but they keep order.” “Look at the old ladies…” he adds with emotion to see how they organize themselves.
Finally, and in the face of this practice that he discovered, the North American warns, joking but alluding to the difficulties he has sometimes encountered, that when someone complains about “the useless bureaucracy of the Spanish government” or the administrative obstacles and waiting that exist there, “I will tell them to look at the queues at the butcher’s shop“.
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