Chapter 1537 Sure enough, it’s tough
When you come to the United States, your life is basically inseparable from the warehouse supermarket "Costco".
Before coming here, I heard that the characteristic of Texans is "toughness", but Xiao Peng didn't think it was a big deal. They just have two shoulders and one head, so how tough can they be?
As soon as I got to Costco, they sent a Texas girl to give me a 'show of force'!
Bruch had just parked his car in the Costco parking lot and a few people got out when a Ford F-150 pulled up next to theirs. They were driving a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, but it looked smaller than the Ford pickup truck!
The most common vehicle in Texas is the Ford pickup truck. It seems that one-third of the people driving the truck are driving this truck - this is in a big city like Houston. If you leave the city, almost two-thirds of the cars are this truck.
The person who got out of the car was a woman, probably in her thirties, a little over 1.6 meters tall and weighing about 130 grams. She looked a little plump, wearing a red T-shirt and denim shorts. She opened the car door and jumped out of the car as nimbly as a monkey.
This is definitely a Texas woman.
How do you tell a Texas woman from a non-Texan woman in Texas? Texas women wear denim shorts six months of the year, and jeans the other six months... And those who wear skirts? They're basically non-Texans.
Xiao Peng watched the woman jump out of the car and couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "How can you drive a car this short? Can you control the accelerator and brake? Or can you see the road conditions when you step on the accelerator?"
What the woman did next surprised Xiao Peng even more: after getting out of the car, she didn't close the door directly. Instead, she pulled an AR-15 rifle from the seat and slung it across her back before closing the door. Seeing Xiao Peng and the others looking at her, she smiled warmly, said "Eh!", and walked straight into Costco.
To be honest, Texans are quite welcoming. But why the hell are you carrying a gun in a supermarket?
But the people around acted as if they saw nothing - as if the woman was not carrying an assault rifle, but a bag or a vegetable basket or something like that.
Are they used to this? Aren't they really afraid of someone carrying a gun and robbing people? They have a criminal record! Just a few months ago, a man in Boulder, Colorado, walked into a local supermarket with a gun and killed over a dozen people. Don't these Americans have brains?
Everyone could only sigh: The people of Texas are really tough!
Xiao Peng and his friends applied for a membership card here, and the five of them went directly into Costco.
In fact, if you just want to buy wine at Costco, you don't need to apply for a membership card. You just need to tell the front desk staff that you just want to buy wine, and he will give you a "temporary membership card". You can also enter with this card, but it can only be used to buy wine, and you must pay in cash or with a cash card.
Xiao Peng and his team started the "big purchase" mode, buying everything from food, clothing, and daily necessities... Fortunately, the car was big enough, otherwise it would be a problem whether they could load it back - if they had known, they would have driven two cars.
When they drove back to the villa, because they bought so many supplies, several young neighbors curiously asked them if they were going to have a party.
They also went to Houston's Big Summer City to buy a lot of things, such as seasonings and tin grills.
What's for dinner? Stir-fried vegetables and skewers.
Xiao Peng was in charge of cooking some hot dishes, while Bruch was in charge of grilling skewers. Van der Laupe, together with Elsa and Kaiser, was in charge of marinating, cutting and threading the meat.
Bruch has been with Xiao Peng for a long time, and his grilling skills have been perfected. Although Van der Laupe has only eaten it a few times in Orange Garden, he is very familiar with the process. As for Elsa and Kaiser... it is their first time eating this kind of barbecue.
It’s not that they don’t eat barbecue, in fact, they eat more of it. However, their way of grilling is to put large pieces of ingredients on the grill and grill them. They have never experienced cutting the ingredients into small pieces and grilling them. They are also very depressed: Isn’t it too troublesome to do this?
But seeing Xiao Peng busying around, they certainly couldn't complain: what else could they say if the boss was busy?
It wasn't until Xiao Peng returned to Orange Garden that they truly got to know him, and their impression of him completely changed. Look how approachable Xiao Peng is! He personally cooked for the disaster victims, and now in Houston, he's cooking dinner himself. The boss does everything himself, so what right do they have to complain?
Washing vegetables, picking vegetables, cutting meat... Although these tasks were basically the first time, they were done very seriously. As for Xiao Peng? He drove out!
A butcher in Daxia City had just called him and told him they had what he wanted and he could go get it. So Xiao Peng took Van der Laupe to Daxia City—Bruch wanted to go with him but didn't. In fact, he didn't even want to take Van der Laupe with him, but who had made him give Van der Laupe the order to stay within ten meters?
Okay, take it with you.
What was he buying? Offal? He was going to make some braised liver tips and spicy pork intestines tonight, along with some lamb kidneys, lamb breasts, and beef breasts to roast...
Bruch and the others were used to eating these things, and Van der Laupe had probably eaten them too, but Elsa and Kaiser hadn't. How could anyone around Xiao Peng not eat these things? Let them take this opportunity to experience the charm of offal.
Following the navigation, they returned to Daxia City. The boss of Daxia Fellows took out tightly packed ingredients from the refrigerator and handed them to Xiao Peng. Xiao Peng felt helpless about this. Why did buying vegetables feel like stealing?
The boss realized Xiao Peng had just arrived and lamented that he had arrived at the wrong time. A group of environmental groups had been protesting in Daxia City the other day, demanding that the sale of animal offal be prohibited. Their reason was even more ridiculous: eating offal was considered cruel.
Damn, it’s not cruel for you to eat meat, but it’s cruel for us to eat some internal organs?
What kind of nonsense is this?
Despite the shop owner's repeated warnings that Xiao Peng must be careful when he went out, saying that the environmentalists could show up at any moment and that they were like toads crawling on the back of your feet—not biting, but disgusting. Xiao Peng did follow his instructions and was more cautious, but they were still surrounded by a group of people carrying banners in the parking lot.
However, they didn't do anything too radical. They just surrounded Xiao Peng, not letting him leave, and kept on talking about their theories. Their theories were terrifying, with things like "Eating offal will cause a mysterious virus to infect the entire human race" and "Eating offal will change the human genome and affect human development."
Oh my goodness! The Daxia people have been eating offal for thousands of years! Can you be any more ignorant?
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