I will never get used to some things!

My daily pilgrimage to the grocery store is filled with all sorts of new discoveries.  Who knew that $4.50 a gallon for milk was a good price?  How do you choose from 20 different types of extra virgin olive oil?   My discovery yesterday was a shocker...

Yes, that is marinated horse steak.  They also had horse "jerky" if you would prefer.  The butcher down the street advertises horse meat from the USA.  It is truly nauseating. 

Speaking of nauseating, I will never get used to all the cigarette smoke.  It is a great mystery of how the Swiss are so healthy and have a longer average life span than the USA but sometimes it seems like everybody smokes.  In the train stations, instead of there being a designated smoking area, there is a designated non-smoking area (a little glass room).  Switzerland, in general is exquistely clean, but they don't consider cigarette butts trash.  Here are the train tracks.

There are cigarettes for sale everywhere, including all the vending machines.  Speaking of vending machines, I recently saw a new addition to the merchandise:

 Yes, tucked next to your ciggies is your pregnancy test.  "Maybe baby" translates into any language!