before covid hysteria I always used gloves. Now after covid I don't care, I always use my bare hands. I realized it's such a stupid and wasteful thing to use gloves. Do you think the hands and machines that pick your fruits are sanitary? Lol Just wash everything at home.
In Italy in supermarkets it is forbidden to touch any type of unpackaged food product with your hands, fruit and vegetables in particular! In fact, plastic gloves are available at the entrance.
In Italy everyone wears plastic gloves when they touch the fruit and vegetables. The gloves are with the plastic bags. You might have got the unhappy looks only because you weren’t wearing a plastic glove.
@@daredonte7787so plastic? Lmao. Biodegradable corn plastics take 100's of years to biodegrade and are plastic. Touching vegetables with your bare hand, buying them, and using a fruit box to take them home is miles better than whatever the fuck is going on in Italy. Do you not have running water?
@@simoneciciriello6994 you're right even if carrefour is different in Italy, than in France, in Spain, etc. It has different products and different prices.
@nonnodacciaio704 sono stata da Carrefour in Spagna e non ho trovato pancetta, guanciale, prosciutto din Parma ne tanti altri prodotti che ci sono in Carrefour Italia. C'erano i biscotti del Mulino Bianco, ma pochi tipi, e molto piu cari.
The last store is the food market / eatery at Milan Central Railway station ... I was there last week (which is why I only got to watch your video now). It's a fantastic place to buy food, a venue like this is never going to be cheap but the Italians know what is good and Milan is a place where there are many who will be able to afford the prices quality demands. We went to a different take away food stall at the station and purchased mozzarella cheese balls with tomato cut into quarters in a plastic tub, a very good snack to eat whilst on the train! The station is a wonderful building, well worth visiting.
Esselunga isn’t a bad supermarket by international standards, but you’re always going to get better food in Italy from an indoor market (like your last ‘store’) or the weekly outdoor or farmers’ market. They will have the local specialties at competitive prices and - best of all - you have to ask for everything by name, which is great for improving your language skills. I may have brought a kilo of aged grana padano back in my suitcase a few months back.
This is not exactly the case, the quality of products in Italian supermarkets is always medium-high (including discount stores) or high, and the incidence of local products is equal to 80%. For us Italians, quality is of fundamental importance. It is not for nothing that we are the only ones in the world to have a special police force (N.A.S. or anti-adulteration and healthcare units) solely dedicated to the control of commercial establishments that produce, transport and sell food and health products. They are very efficient and tough in the application of our very harsh laws on the matter.
@@andreaflyngitalian2785 Completely agree as an Italian. The day I will not find great, healthy, and Italian food at the supermarket, is the day I'm stopping going there.
@@robertallardice8119 Yes! I think the same goes for wine. I've noticed the selection we get here is 90% dry wine, no matter if it's red, white or rose. Medium seems to be hard to find, I've tried all the big supermarkets.
Coming from Australia, as you would know Scott, we love our seafood. I was surprised how expensive it was for prawns. The rest of the food seemed on par with here. Love walking through the supermarkets in other countries. Brilliant, thanks mate.
In the Caribbean you are not really allowed to touch vegetables, it's regarded as not being polite. I remembered on a holiday to Trinidad and Tobago, I went to a local fruit and vegetables shop, I picked up a very large tomato to examine it, only for the lady working behind the counter to tell me "please do not touch or squeeze the tomato, if you are so lonely, go find a girlfriend" well I really wanted to react but she was holding a big knife at the time.
@tonymaxwellhatt1175 in Italy its the same, since many years ago, before covid. Ive read un a market: the people who touch and squeeze fruits and vegetables, will receive the same treatment from the seller.🤣
ESSELUNGA is the best supermarket in the world! ps in Italy vegetables, and in general any goods that are not packaged, cannot be touched with bare hands, for a matter of respect and hygiene
@@peternolan5353 Some fruit is washed before packaging other's not,some is waxed (when put on display )...think it's better be safe than sorry I always peel fruits and wash veggies thorougly
There are 2 types of supermarkets in Italy: branded ones like Esselunga, Conad, Coop, and many others, but then there are discount stores that have lower prices and often non-branded products.
I too love going to foreign supermarkets. I just realized I have not eaten a grapefruit in the last 5 years. Time for a grapefruit ! Romani broccoli are not widely available in my area. I seldom see them in grocery stores.
I absolutely love going to fresh fruit and vegetable markets abroad, if I'm staying in an apartment that's the first place I go to stock up and then it's off to the supermarket for meats cheeses and wine.
Note how the fruit and vegetables are sold loose and not all wrapped in tons of plastic like here. I’ve only ever been in one supermarket in Mantova in Northern Italy, Lidl..
Does it mean that the Scottish salmon was caught by Scottish fishermen in North 🌊 or was farmed in Scotland., or was it caught by Norwegian fishermen of the Scottish coast. Interesting
I would get a GoPro mount that sits on a rucksack shoulder strap. Then I think you can switch all the lights/displays etc off and people would hardly notice you’re recording. Loving all your Italian stuff, can’t wait until I can sort another trip ther
This was *so* much fun - such a fascinating insight into someone else's food culture. Thank you so much, and I'm sorry you were made to feel uncomfortable.
Right on a level with France for qualità of food, and moreover young Kids eat plenty of fresh fruit and veg and fish, the UK? Deep fried Cod and Frozen, Great video.salami sometines have lower prices in comparisonti others if the are fresh, not cured, which means not many Will buy them because the are almost not able to be eaten until months have passed
Went into a supermarket in Tuscany. Biggest surprise was to find sliced loaf sandwiches British style on sale! Mind you they are also on sale in Spanish and French supermarkets. French are best for tinned food.
Great Scott! Sorry!! Couldn' t resist it!Loved it. Travelled extensively throughout Europe and I do what you did. And...occasionally I buy something. The cheese..to die for...perhaps literally!. Cheers
And the same policy "no touching without gloves" goes for when you pick up bread sold unpacked. At least this is the case in northern italy where I go shopping!
italian prices are proprtionated to the most common income of 1000-1500 € monthly whic would be around or below Us or Uk minimum wage. The central station shop is peculiar because no common italian would be an usual customer, it is a place for travellers and employees of the administratve district around Central station (alike "Manhattan")
Consider that the top tax rate Is 43+2% above Just 50k€ which Is twice the average income (almost no healthcare costs on individuals,paid by IRAP taxi on busineses Banks included)
Thanks Scott. A very interesting video. My Italian wife (and my only wife) was captivated too. She came from Abruzzi , on the Adriatic Coast. Spent two weeks in Scotland, my dad's birthplace (Dundee) then two weeks in Italy, just before the Covid outbreak. Loved both places to bits. Loved the people, loved the food, loved the hospitality. Loved the beer in both places but glad to get home to Queensland. On ya Scottie!
Esselunga was our go to place on a recent trip to Italy (other supermarkets are available!). But for those pesky luggage restrictions, I would have bought a lot of biscuits!
What was interesting here is I live in Dubai and all the fresh seafood was at minimum Double the price of what I pay here. And 95% of seafood is flown in here.
You covered one of the most expensive grocery stores. One can save a lot of money going to groceries like Todis, Eurospin, Lidl, MD (easily half the prices of what is shown here, and the quality it's often even better), and by buying fruit and vegs at the small stores usually run by Egyptians immigrants. Seasonal fruits and vegs (for example apples, oranges, broccoli and cabbages at this time of the year) are easily 1€ per kg or slightly more at those small stores.
If he had any language skills, he could have worked that out from the number of products which were labelled organic. Why didn’t he buy anything if the products were so good? That would have made him look less like a furtive shoplifter! Then he probably went off to eat in a Macdonald’s..
I hope you enjoyed it! I still don't understand if you were happily surprised or sadly surprised about the prices! You jumped on the olive oil section, that would be very suprising, as extravirgin olive oil, that we use pretty much for everything like butter for Scottish, has increased to 10 euros per liter :( I hope you enjoyed your stay in Milan!
Every time you picked something without a glove my eye twitched a bit 😂 You made an interesting video but please next time be sure to wear them please. The prices vary a lot from one supermarket to another, for example a 9 pack tuna of high quality is often in offer for 6 €, so a 2 pack tuna for almost 4€ is not really standard. The 2€ wine is rubbish, its better to buy " vino sfuso " at wine shop, if you go there you can get really good wine for like 3/4 € If you buy in a supermarket the ideal range is 5/8 € like a Valpollicela for 8 € or a pinot grigio for 5 € (unless you find them in offer) Chianti is often in offer ffor 4/5 € Same goes for most things you showed, you can find them at better prices/quality, the best way its buy from dedicated shops or kniw which supermarket has the best offers for a specific item.
Good work Scott,, by the way the Roman Broccoli is a type of cauliflower, delicious. I had some in Italy recently, fried up with garlic, turmeric, salt, olive oil and a splash of water. Bella Bella. For the people worried about not using plastic gloves to pick up food, here in the UK we don't do that.
I'm Australian presently on holiday in Japan. Overall, prices in Japanese supermarkets are significantly cheaper than Australia (or Italy). Visiting supermarkets in foreign lands is one of my favourite touristy things to do, so thanks for your efforts Scott. The seafood in Japan is insanely cheap, as is the alcohol. Hic!
I can only speak from recent experience in Spain and France but it seems European supermarkets put UK ones to shame (except Waitrose). Plus they are about the same prices and often cheaper.
I lived in England: supermarkets they re not the best in the World: produrre are often low quality and fruits and veg dont taste of anything. Meat isnt bad at times
Why is this a problem? Things get picked up and put back all the time. Don't be such a KAREN. Payne by name and PAIN by nature. I bet you don't get invited to too many parties KAREN
Devi vedere la qualità, in Italia molto alta ed i Gran Bretagna scadente. In Italia ci sono anche dei market meno costosi dove puoi trovare anche prodotti di qualità.
We visit Rome a couple of times a year and find the supermarket great especially the cost of bottled water a total fraction of the cost of rip off England. Wines and beers very good value also. Great video once again
As a frequent visitor to France, I found that interesting Scott. Like you, I adore cheeses which although in France are dearer than the UK, they are a thousand times better, and the staff behind the cheese counter will usually let you try a sliver. The cheeses in Italy look good. Comments on your film - 1. I guess you know nothing about wine because in Australia it is sold by grape type, so they simply want a bottle of "cabsav" and that's it. 2. Scottish Salmon! Wow, in France I can only ever buy Norweigan salmon because of Brexit. I wonder how the Italians get it! 3. Disappointed at no Craft Beer. In France it's getting quite big like in the UK, but for me Peroni is just another tasteless multi-national giant. Thanks for the film, and Bon-apetit.
@Clivestravelandtrains And you think that you have seen few of them, those that you see in the shops and especially in the supermarkets are the most well-known and widespread ones, but there are those especially for regional use that They are sold in large-scale distribution if not in typical regional shops such as the fossa cheese in Romagna (Emilia Romagna) or the cheese with worms from Sardinia which the EU It is forbidden to sell it outside the region, it is rare as a cheese because only a few of them come out since it is a fly that puts the worm and Does not choose all forms of this cheese And it has been eaten for over 4000 years and no one has ever had any problems except for the European Union which kills the local European traditions. In addition to these many other unknown cheeses If it happened to you, I remind you of something if you have tasted pecorino romano?Many believe that the name comes from and was made by the Romans of the Rome area or in Lazio, instead it is a Sardinian pecorino cheese that is called like this and has nothing Roman about it, then again in Romagna there is a cheese Soft cheese called squaquerone similar to stracchino but much tastier
@Clivestravelandtrains You can find good cheeses in covered markets or directly from the shepherds or dairy in supermarkets. Many are industrialised cheeses even if they are good.
Also in Italy the prices are gains a lot, unfortunately. For example pasta, 2 years ago was cost about 1.50/2€ per Kg, now 3/3,50€. The price of Rice Is duplicate.
Thanks for doing this. I always find it interesting, too, seeing other country’s grocery stores and prices. I’ve never seen anything like that green broccoli or ??? It looked like a conch shell! The prices looked quite good compared to here. In Canada, at least in Ontario, you don't need to wear gloves to touch the produce, within reason, of course. I think the expectation is that the buyer will thoroughly wash their produce before consuming it. It's interesting to read in the comments how different countries handle this.
I'm always happy that I'm not the only person who loves exploring local supermarkets when travelling. In the bigger ones I could spend hours. Seeing new food, guessing what food it is (i was in a Mercadona in Tenerife. I don't speak Spanish, but I understand Italian, so I understood or could guess the meaning of around 50 percent). But the funniest thing by far happend in an international supermarket in Bangkok, where they wanted to sell me chocolate, which is produced 15 kilometers away from my home town in Switzerland and I had worked in that production for a few months.
I saw a pineapple with the same tag as the pineapples at the grocery store I work at in the US. Outside of Walmart, Target, and Costco, I don’t think there are any multinational grocery store store chains-at least of one specific brand name like Care Four
Bit of a mission for you Scott next time you're on the continent. Kellogg's Country Store. One of my favourite cereals as a child, no longer available in the UK. Aparantly only available in mainland Europe!
Sono Toscana e quindi in una regione di olio di qualità. L’anno passato nella mia zona le olive si contavano sull’albero, in altre zone forse meglio, ma annata nera per l’olio, Quest’anno meglio ma le olive sono piccole e hanno avuto meno resa, inoltre i frantoi hanno alzato i prezzi per la spremitura. Si i prezzi corrispondono
Anzi alcuni lo fanno 13 e 14 euro. Nei supermercati quello di olive italiane costa dai 9 ai 12 il litro. Quello Toscano è fuori prezzo. L’unica è andare a km zero ma anche così non meno di 12 euro
Euro supermarkets enjoy the benefit of the EU opportunity for open competition. Its also why you may rarely see Uk or US products as a european maker will be stocked. The uk lost out with brexit.
I wouldn’t call you a foodie exactly as more often than not you don’t have a clue what to order, especially in Italy. Why must inyou always order pizza and a Peroni for example? In Bergamo you were totally ripped off! Pizza must be eaten in. Pizzeria, otherwise it will be frozen crap.
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I want to warn you that in Italy it is forbidden to touch fruit and vegetables with bare hands, you must wear special gloves
Don't worry you won't get arrested 😅
@@SM-xo3dvrespectfully you should tho
There are gloves for you to use
before covid hysteria I always used gloves. Now after covid I don't care, I always use my bare hands.
I realized it's such a stupid and wasteful thing to use gloves. Do you think the hands and machines that pick your fruits are sanitary? Lol
Just wash everything at home.
E una questione di igiene ..
In Italy in supermarkets it is forbidden to touch any type of unpackaged food product with your hands, fruit and vegetables in particular! In fact, plastic gloves are available at the entrance.
We are only learning of this now through the comments here.thank you.
@@tiddlywinks456 he should know better.
Why? Makes no sense.
@@FrEaK4877 idk, sanitary reasons?
@@FrEaK4877 Where do you come from 3rd world?
In Italy everyone wears plastic gloves when they touch the fruit and vegetables. The gloves are with the plastic bags. You might have got the unhappy looks only because you weren’t wearing a plastic glove.
The gloves aren’t made of plastic. I think we have said that many times
@@nicolettastrada5976 What are the gloves made of?
They are made of unicorn heels.
@@nicolettastrada5976 they use compostable corn bioplastics for bags
@@daredonte7787so plastic? Lmao. Biodegradable corn plastics take 100's of years to biodegrade and are plastic. Touching vegetables with your bare hand, buying them, and using a fruit box to take them home is miles better than whatever the fuck is going on in Italy. Do you not have running water?
In Italy you can't touch fruit and vegetables without plastic gloves !!
Thank you Sir for visiting our Country, we appreciate that and you are always welcome 🤝
You took planes, trains and everything to get to Italy and chose to enter a Carrefour market, which is a French chain... Brilliant!
I was expecting this comment and I was right!
Vabbè mica vendono le cose che vendono in francia
@@simoneciciriello6994 you're right even if carrefour is different in Italy, than in France, in Spain, etc. It has different products and different prices.
@nonnodacciaio704 sono stata da Carrefour in Spagna e non ho trovato pancetta, guanciale, prosciutto din Parma ne tanti altri prodotti che ci sono in Carrefour Italia. C'erano i biscotti del Mulino Bianco, ma pochi tipi, e molto piu cari.
È entrato anche in un Esselunga
You have to go to the local supermarkets when traveling, its one of the best things about being abroad.
I absolutely love foreign supermarkets. It’s one of my most favourite things to do. ❤
The last store is the food market / eatery at Milan Central Railway station ... I was there last week (which is why I only got to watch your video now). It's a fantastic place to buy food, a venue like this is never going to be cheap but the Italians know what is good and Milan is a place where there are many who will be able to afford the prices quality demands. We went to a different take away food stall at the station and purchased mozzarella cheese balls with tomato cut into quarters in a plastic tub, a very good snack to eat whilst on the train! The station is a wonderful building, well worth visiting.
In Italian supermarkets they require you to use a glove when touching vegetables or fruit!🤨😅
Great food in Italy. Cheap vegetables and fruit. Remarkable cheese 🧀
Certo, anche i nostri stipendi sono molto bassi..
Esselunga isn’t a bad supermarket by international standards, but you’re always going to get better food in Italy from an indoor market (like your last ‘store’) or the weekly outdoor or farmers’ market. They will have the local specialties at competitive prices and - best of all - you have to ask for everything by name, which is great for improving your language skills. I may have brought a kilo of aged grana padano back in my suitcase a few months back.
😊
This is not exactly the case, the quality of products in Italian supermarkets is always medium-high (including discount stores) or high, and the incidence of local products is equal to 80%.
For us Italians, quality is of fundamental importance. It is not for nothing that we are the only ones in the world to have a special police force (N.A.S. or anti-adulteration and healthcare units) solely dedicated to the control of commercial establishments that produce, transport and sell food and health products. They are very efficient and tough in the application of our very harsh laws on the matter.
@@andreaflyngitalian2785 Completely agree as an Italian. The day I will not find great, healthy, and Italian food at the supermarket, is the day I'm stopping going there.
@@andreaflyngitalian2785 I do not think it is unique to Italy. A number of European countries (eg France) have the same.
The taste of the fresh produce in Italy is amazing!
It shows we get the crap in the U.K.!
@@robertallardice8119 Yes! I think the same goes for wine. I've noticed the selection we get here is 90% dry wine, no matter if it's red, white or rose. Medium seems to be hard to find, I've tried all the big supermarkets.
It’s difficult to compare food prices because average income levels vary throughout Europe.
In Italy incomes are on a par with the UK once you take account the fact that NI is much higher in Italy due to the far better state pension they get.
@@tancreddehauteville764 True, the UK old age pension is nearly the lowest in Europe.
@@janetmackinnon3411 It is shameful, considering how much tax we pay in the UK.
@@janetmackinnon3411 how much? In €
Coming from Australia, as you would know Scott, we love our seafood. I was surprised how expensive it was for prawns. The rest of the food seemed on par with here. Love walking through the supermarkets in other countries. Brilliant, thanks mate.
Italian supermarkets>australian or American supermarkets
There aren’t as many prawns or lobsters or crabs in our seas, so fresh ones are usually quite expensive here. Beware if you order it in restaurants.
In the Caribbean you are not really allowed to touch vegetables, it's regarded as not being polite. I remembered on a holiday to Trinidad and Tobago, I went to a local fruit and vegetables shop, I picked up a very large tomato to examine it, only for the lady working behind the counter to tell me "please do not touch or squeeze the tomato, if you are so lonely, go find a girlfriend" well I really wanted to react but she was holding a big knife at the time.
Also in Italy is un polite. You should wear plastic gloves that are freely available near the counter.
Beh, non aveva tutti i torti, burino!😂
@tonymaxwellhatt1175 in Italy its the same, since many years ago, before covid.
Ive read un a market: the people who touch and squeeze fruits and vegetables, will receive the same treatment from the seller.🤣
7:54 Ichnusa is also a good choice for beer in Italy
Yep, we're proud of our Sardinian lager👏👏
ESSELUNGA is the best supermarket in the world!
ps in Italy vegetables, and in general any goods that are not packaged, cannot be touched with bare hands, for a matter of respect and hygiene
Thought it was pretty disgusting he was touching everything.
Usually there are disposable plastic gloves in "fruit and vegetables" section of supermarkets
@@federicocatelli8785I would think after covi people would know not to go around touching food like this.
how you think the food got on the shelves ,by itself. Evrer hear of washing the vegetables. 🤔
@@peternolan5353
Some fruit is washed before packaging other's not,some is waxed (when put on display )...think it's better be safe than sorry I always peel fruits and wash veggies thorougly
i understand you like beers. you should TOTALLY try Ichnusa non filtrata. One of the best beers in italy. Messina beer with sea salt is also special.
Non è male ma niente di speciale.
More socially unacceptable cabbage filming please! :)
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Thank you for showing us the supermarkets. Like you I love cheese. 🧀🧀🧀
There are 2 types of supermarkets in Italy: branded ones like Esselunga, Conad, Coop, and many others, but then there are discount stores that have lower prices and often non-branded products.
There's no non-branded product anywhere
Discount stores are everywhere in the world
I too love going to foreign supermarkets. I just realized I have not eaten a grapefruit in the last 5 years. Time for a grapefruit ! Romani broccoli are not widely available in my area. I seldom see them in grocery stores.
I absolutely love going to fresh fruit and vegetable markets abroad, if I'm staying in an apartment that's the first place I go to stock up and then it's off to the supermarket for meats cheeses and wine.
Note how the fruit and vegetables are sold loose and not all wrapped in tons of plastic like here. I’ve only ever been in one supermarket in Mantova in Northern Italy, Lidl..
Is normal in Italy, except Esselunga market use more plastic but also sell vegetables without plastic.
Scottish salmon! Yay!!! Great effort with the reconnaissance mission mate ;)
They also had Norwegian salmon, but the Scottish product was (naturally) on the top shelf!
Does it mean that the Scottish salmon was caught by Scottish fishermen in North 🌊 or was farmed in Scotland., or was it caught by Norwegian fishermen of the Scottish coast. Interesting
@@PlanesTrainsEverythinghow much in Italy 🇮🇹? Find an Aldi or Lidl 😂
You missed the Tennents super 👀😁🍺🍺
I would get a GoPro mount that sits on a rucksack shoulder strap. Then I think you can switch all the lights/displays etc off and people would hardly notice you’re recording.
Loving all your Italian stuff, can’t wait until I can sort another trip ther
This was *so* much fun - such a fascinating insight into someone else's food culture. Thank you so much, and I'm sorry you were made to feel uncomfortable.
Can not wait to see you and Steve Marsh reviewing carrots in Dundee Tesco!
Right on a level with France for qualità of food, and moreover young Kids eat plenty of fresh fruit and veg and fish, the UK? Deep fried Cod and Frozen, Great video.salami sometines have lower prices in comparisonti others if the are fresh, not cured, which means not many Will buy them because the are almost not able to be eaten until months have passed
The first one was the Carrefour near the football stadium in Como, the second the Porta Nuova Esselunga in Milan. Am I right?
Went into a supermarket in Tuscany. Biggest surprise was to find sliced loaf sandwiches British style on sale! Mind you they are also on sale in Spanish and French supermarkets. French are best for tinned food.
Cibo in scatola, anche no.....
Great Scott! Sorry!! Couldn' t resist it!Loved it. Travelled extensively throughout Europe and I do what you did. And...occasionally I buy something. The cheese..to die for...perhaps literally!. Cheers
And the same policy "no touching without gloves" goes for when you pick up bread sold unpacked. At least this is the case in northern italy where I go shopping!
Looks like Waitrose x please do more of these so interesting
This was really interesting and fun. More supermarket videos please.
italian prices are proprtionated to the most common income of 1000-1500 € monthly whic would be around or below Us or Uk minimum wage. The central station shop is peculiar because no common italian would be an usual customer, it is a place for travellers and employees of the administratve district around Central station (alike "Manhattan")
Consider that the top tax rate Is 43+2% above Just 50k€ which Is twice the average income (almost no healthcare costs on individuals,paid by IRAP taxi on busineses Banks included)
Nothing wrong with videoing a cabbage. I find these sorts of videos really interesting.
But never touch fresh produce with your bare hands!!!! There are plastic gloves to use.
Paulaner is in Morrisons im sure..try the Forst bier in Italy...its class
Love exploring locat markets if you're not comfortable filming while people around you, go in the morning when few are expected to shop.
was in south italy last year and found a supermarket selling tennants super lager what a surprise never knew they exported it
Tennessee super is normal in italy
@@cal7348 in this the video too just near Peroni and Moretti you could see Tennent's cans ( Special or Super ) min 8.0
Tennents beer Is exported to italy as Danish Ceres Is. Personally i don't like those heavy beers, i prefer 4% alchool ones.
You can also get Guiness
Thanks for your amazing under cover work🤣appreciate your video ...thoroughly enjoy them all.gracie...🍺
Watching from New Zealand, I have price every big time!
Great video as always
I don't understand this sentence...
Funny how you touched everything, but had to give up on the eggs.
In Italia non puoi toccare frutta e verdura con le mani, ma devi usare i guanti
Do more of these Scott! I would volunteer to be your spotter, but it's a bit of a trip, lol
Thanks Scott. A very interesting video. My Italian wife (and my only wife) was captivated too. She came from Abruzzi , on the Adriatic Coast.
Spent two weeks in Scotland, my dad's birthplace (Dundee) then two weeks in Italy, just before the Covid outbreak. Loved both places to bits.
Loved the people, loved the food, loved the hospitality. Loved the beer in both places but glad to get home to Queensland. On ya Scottie!
Esselunga was our go to place on a recent trip to Italy (other supermarkets are available!). But for those pesky luggage restrictions, I would have bought a lot of biscuits!
I really enjoyed that. More of this story of thing please.
Another great and informative video Scott. Never mind the neysayers.
What was interesting here is I live in Dubai and all the fresh seafood was at minimum Double the price of what I pay here.
And 95% of seafood is flown in here.
I love this video, I want to go to Italy at some point and their supermarkets look really nice and interesting, i love all the packaging.
Didn’t see any Gorganzola cheese. My mother used to by it for my father and I. She got some funny looks on the bus coming home and a seat to herself.
C'era certamente. Non può mancare, è fra i formaggi più venduti.
Just back from a short break in Malaga lovely city really enjoyed the views from the fort
i liked that store...fun stuff...thanks
Great Video Scott
Wow. The sheer variety and quality of food puts us to shame. They probably have all our best languistines too😂. Brilliant❤
Unlike in Australia, entering a supermarket while barefoot is forbidden in Italy. It's mandatory to wear shoes and shirts before entering a store.
y r italians so racist?
Great video - thanks!
You covered one of the most expensive grocery stores. One can save a lot of money going to groceries like Todis, Eurospin, Lidl, MD (easily half the prices of what is shown here, and the quality it's often even better), and by buying fruit and vegs at the small stores usually run by Egyptians immigrants. Seasonal fruits and vegs (for example apples, oranges, broccoli and cabbages at this time of the year) are easily 1€ per kg or slightly more at those small stores.
If he had any language skills, he could have worked that out from the number of products which were labelled organic. Why didn’t he buy anything if the products were so good? That would have made him look less like a furtive shoplifter! Then he probably went off to eat in a Macdonald’s..
I hope you enjoyed it! I still don't understand if you were happily surprised or sadly surprised about the prices! You jumped on the olive oil section, that would be very suprising, as extravirgin olive oil, that we use pretty much for everything like butter for Scottish, has increased to 10 euros per liter :( I hope you enjoyed your stay in Milan!
I think it would have been better if you didn’t pick everything up all the time
To take a proper look, it needs to be picked up. I'm guessing Scott doesn't possess telekinesis powers.
Every time you picked something without a glove my eye twitched a bit 😂
You made an interesting video but please next time be sure to wear them please.
The prices vary a lot from one supermarket to another, for example a 9 pack tuna of high quality is often in offer for 6 €, so a 2 pack tuna for almost 4€ is not really standard.
The 2€ wine is rubbish, its better to buy " vino sfuso " at wine shop, if you go there you can get really good wine for like 3/4 €
If you buy in a supermarket the ideal range is 5/8 € like a Valpollicela for 8 € or a pinot grigio for 5 € (unless you find them in offer)
Chianti is often in offer ffor 4/5 €
Same goes for most things you showed, you can find them at better prices/quality, the best way its buy from dedicated shops or kniw which supermarket has the best offers for a specific item.
Good work Scott,, by the way the Roman Broccoli is a type of cauliflower, delicious. I had some in Italy recently, fried up with garlic, turmeric, salt, olive oil and a splash of water. Bella Bella.
For the people worried about not using plastic gloves to pick up food, here in the UK we don't do that.
People can wash their hands easily, but I wonder how clean gloves are.
Sporcaccioni
@janetmackinnon3411 certo sono più puliti delle tue mani, con le quali fai di tutto
The plastic gloves come directly from the factory and are disposable. Completely clean.
Good video and interesting, prices quite good😊
I'm Australian presently on holiday in Japan. Overall, prices in Japanese supermarkets are significantly cheaper than Australia (or Italy). Visiting supermarkets in foreign lands is one of my favourite touristy things to do, so thanks for your efforts Scott. The seafood in Japan is insanely cheap, as is the alcohol. Hic!
Supermarkets in Southern Italy are much cheaper than Japanese supermarkets. Fruits and vegetables are cheaper in the south of Italy than in Japan.
The saga continues. Are those italian sauces as good as Lloyd Grossman's though? Worth a video in itself.
How very dare you? ;)
Italian sauces are only good in Italy... your sauces are a failed imitation
I can only speak from recent experience in Spain and France but it seems European supermarkets put UK ones to shame (except Waitrose). Plus they are about the same prices and often cheaper.
British supermarkets are among the best in the world. I speak as a serious globetrotter. Try checking out Aussie supermarkets.
@@justgrand3429😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@paulodacosta82My exact reactions to Aussie supermarkets.
I lived in England: supermarkets they re not the best in the World: produrre are often low quality and fruits and veg dont taste of anything. Meat isnt bad at times
@@annadessi5376 I think you are confusing US supermarkets with UK supermarkets.
worthy content, thanks!
Most of the time you want the white wine, however, you do get red wine once in awhile. Just my personal preference.
Why do you have to pick things up if not buying.
Why is this a problem? Things get picked up and put back all the time. Don't be such a KAREN. Payne by name and PAIN by nature. I bet you don't get invited to too many parties KAREN
To show us, I expect....
That annoyed me too!
Maybe to steal it?
@@tonymaxwellhatt1175 Muppet comment
Thanks for sharing :) If you like Peroni and Moretti have you tried Asahi? Delicious :)
Beer and wine seemed reasonably priced if not even cheap compared to UK but everything else was, in my opinion, rather expensive.
Too expensive.
Devi vedere la qualità, in Italia molto alta ed i Gran Bretagna scadente. In Italia ci sono anche dei market meno costosi dove puoi trovare anche prodotti di qualità.
We visit Rome a couple of times a year and find the supermarket great especially the cost of bottled water a total fraction of the cost of rip off England. Wines and beers very good value also. Great video once again
I hope you figure it out, because I love these. I'm surprised that things aren't quite as cheap as I imagined, other than produce.
Thank you
Interesting! And a good idea.But could you linger a bit longer, to let us make comparisons with where we shop?
Excellent
As italian: sorry but don't touch vegetables and fruit without specific gloves!🥴
As a frequent visitor to France, I found that interesting Scott. Like you, I adore cheeses which although in France are dearer than the UK, they are a thousand times better, and the staff behind the cheese counter will usually let you try a sliver. The cheeses in Italy look good.
Comments on your film - 1. I guess you know nothing about wine because in Australia it is sold by grape type, so they simply want a bottle of "cabsav" and that's it. 2. Scottish Salmon! Wow, in France I can only ever buy Norweigan salmon because of Brexit. I wonder how the Italians get it! 3. Disappointed at no Craft Beer. In France it's getting quite big like in the UK, but for me Peroni is just another tasteless multi-national giant.
Thanks for the film, and Bon-apetit.
Italy has the most varieties of cheeses, as well as three times more grape varieties than France
@@met71metaldetector55 I've just been Interrailing round Italy and the variety of cheeses impressed me.
@Clivestravelandtrains And you think that you have seen few of them, those that you see in the shops and especially in the supermarkets are the most well-known and widespread ones, but there are those especially for regional use that They are sold in large-scale distribution if not in typical regional shops such as the fossa cheese in Romagna (Emilia Romagna) or the cheese with worms from Sardinia which the EU It is forbidden to sell it outside the region, it is rare as a cheese because only a few of them come out since it is a fly that puts the worm and Does not choose all forms of this cheese And it has been eaten for over 4000 years and no one has ever had any problems except for the European Union which kills the local European traditions. In addition to these many other unknown cheeses If it happened to you, I remind you of something if you have tasted pecorino romano?Many believe that the name comes from and was made by the Romans of the Rome area or in Lazio, instead it is a Sardinian pecorino cheese that is called like this and has nothing Roman about it, then again in Romagna there is a cheese Soft cheese called squaquerone similar to stracchino but much tastier
@Clivestravelandtrains You can find good cheeses in covered markets or directly from the shepherds or dairy in supermarkets. Many are industrialised cheeses even if they are good.
@@met71metaldetector55lo squacquerone non sa da niente, sei abituato male
Australia is currently going through a cost of living crisis, these prices make me cry as we're at times many multiples of that price 😭
do you call Italians greasy w*gs?
Also in Italy the prices are gains a lot, unfortunately.
For example pasta, 2 years ago was cost about 1.50/2€ per Kg, now 3/3,50€.
The price of Rice Is duplicate.
@@cristiandilella2337 ma che c...o dici? Qual'è la pasta da 3,50?
@@cristiandilella2337esagerato, dove fai la spesa, su Marte.
Can’t believe you didn’t mention the tenants lager! Right next to the peroni. Italians love it for some reason 😂
mmm, now I'm hungry.
Sadly, food prices in Portland, Oregon are still 20-30% higher…
But i Imagine you earn more than italians.
@@cristiandilella2337sono più alti, ma sono anche delle schifezze, la roba di qualità costa quasi il 100% di più.
How much is a Big Mac?
Thanks for doing this. I always find it interesting, too, seeing other country’s grocery stores and prices. I’ve never seen anything like that green broccoli or ??? It looked like a conch shell! The prices looked quite good compared to here. In Canada, at least in Ontario, you don't need to wear gloves to touch the produce, within reason, of course. I think the expectation is that the buyer will thoroughly wash their produce before consuming it. It's interesting to read in the comments how different countries handle this.
Anche in Africa non usano i guanti
Nice! Como Supermarket
Pacorino romano is mostly made in Sardinia : (more than 90% of the whole production)
I'm always happy that I'm not the only person who loves exploring local supermarkets when travelling. In the bigger ones I could spend hours. Seeing new food, guessing what food it is (i was in a Mercadona in Tenerife. I don't speak Spanish, but I understand Italian, so I understood or could guess the meaning of around 50 percent).
But the funniest thing by far happend in an international supermarket in Bangkok, where they wanted to sell me chocolate, which is produced 15 kilometers away from my home town in Switzerland and I had worked in that production for a few months.
I saw a pineapple with the same tag as the pineapples at the grocery store I work at in the US. Outside of Walmart, Target, and Costco, I don’t think there are any multinational grocery store store chains-at least of one specific brand name like Care Four
Unless the tins of Illy coffee are larger in Italy, seem expensive at 7.19€? U.K. Waitrose £5.50 tin size 250grams?
Great as always can we can look forward to videos following st mirren in Europe
Bit of a mission for you Scott next time you're on the continent. Kellogg's Country Store. One of my favourite cereals as a child, no longer available in the UK. Aparantly only available in mainland Europe!
Come siete ridotti male, si trova anche in Africa.
I would have bern interested in the prices of olive oil. The prices in the UK have gone through the roof.
About 9.00/10.00 euros a 750 ml bottle, especially for oil produced with olives not italian but produced elsewhere.
Im italian, unfortunately its same in Italy.
2/3 years ago, extravergine olive oil was about 5/7€ per liter, but now Is around 9 to 12€.
Sono Toscana e quindi in una regione di olio di qualità. L’anno passato nella mia zona le olive si contavano sull’albero, in altre zone forse meglio, ma annata nera per l’olio, Quest’anno meglio ma le olive sono piccole e hanno avuto meno resa, inoltre i frantoi hanno alzato i prezzi per la spremitura. Si i prezzi corrispondono
Anzi alcuni lo fanno 13 e 14 euro. Nei supermercati quello di olive italiane costa dai 9 ai 12 il litro. Quello Toscano è fuori prezzo. L’unica è andare a km zero ma anche così non meno di 12 euro
We have Carrefour Market too in Greater Paris.I use a lot.Not dear.
Euro supermarkets enjoy the benefit of the EU opportunity for open competition. Its also why you may rarely see Uk or US products as a european maker will be stocked. The uk lost out with brexit.
I wouldn’t call you a foodie exactly as more often than not you don’t have a clue what to order, especially in Italy. Why must inyou always order pizza and a Peroni for example? In Bergamo you were totally ripped off! Pizza must be eaten in. Pizzeria, otherwise it will be frozen crap.
Alcohol half the price it is in the UK. Vegetables much cheaper too. Amazing choice of cheeses.
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01:58 This Reblochon cheese is from Savoire, France. Their flag looks a bit like the swiss flag. But it's from France, not Switzerland.