Wow, who'd have thought rekindling a 10 year old post would garner such enthusiastic responses. Vive la difference!
To AMHuntFerry, no we never shopped in convenience stores - not our thing. With 3 little kids in tow we also did the standard tourist trips to Disney and Universal plus Walmart once to get a photo. 😅
My post was more about our global differences in taste especially relating to espresso coffee and the use of UHT longlife milk in it.
Yes, you do have UHT milk in the states and even your regular milk is often partly UHT treated. It seems there are quite a few differences in 'regular' milk around the globe. For anyone interested here's a summary of facts https://chatgpt.com/share/66e63b22-1a54-800c-a8bf-1208c46360e5