socks and suitcases

i was in town early (well, relatively early) this morning for an appointment.  they're redoing the square on the walking street (and supposedly will have a large christmas market here in the wintertime!).  that is the domkirke (roskilde's cathedral) in the background... 

i say early, because it was before 10 a.m. and so the shops are all closed and the pedestrian street fairly bereft of pedestrians...

after my appointment and before i was slated to meet up with a friend, i stopped in at a new store in town called 'normal', which i discovered is basically like a walgreens laid out like some of the dollar stores here-- in a twisty, turny manner so that you have no choice but to see all the products.  clever eh?  (sort of like ikea or a line at disney world.)

near the beginning of the twisty turns, i found this...

now... we've been bringing hot sauce back in our suitcases, stuffed in new socks we're simultaneously bringing back, secured in zip locks bags we've pinched from the kitchen drawers of our parents (not to mention convincing them to take similar risks with their own socks and suitcases), and so this is what you would call a major find (except that we have a huge unopened bottle in our cupboard as we finish up the bottle we gave to our neighbors to safeguard while we were in the u.s. for three months because we couldn't bear to toss it-- "it" being tapatio, not cholula, but either/all work(s) for us).  (so i didn't actually buy any today.)  but i'm all for letting 'normal' do the importing.  (20 kroner, by the way, is 3 bucks right now (tax included)-- not bad!!)

okay, i could tell you about the rest of my day, but i'm going to end on the high hot sauce note.  for all those who are scared of socialist countries-- they've got hot sauce now!  fear not!