Auchan, a giant supermarket

We arrived in Noyers yesterday, a too-cute-for-words medieval village near Chablis, to hang at Rod and Marco's house - more to come on this place, we'll be here for 10 days.

After Rod picked us up at the Tonnerre train station, we stopped at the crazy Safeway-style supermarket called Auchan. Kind of awful, but kind of rad, because it's in France and everything is so fascinatingly different.

I loved these cans... (do we have canned potatoes in the US?)

And these baskets of mussels with seaweed around them were on their own sailboat display stand near the fish counter; the boom box in the back was playing the sound of waves crashing.  For real.

Possibly the best, and most bizarre, were these sets of bottles of wine in slippers.  Strange, but I kind of get it; pop the cork, get the slippers on, relax... but then there was a giant slipper with a magnum in it.  If you know anyone with only one foot, size 22, Auchan has it covered.