Comments by "alex carter" (@alexcarter8807) on "Israeli Supermarket Tour (didn't expect this)! 🇮🇱" video.

  1. As I write, the shekel is worth about 30 US cents. It used to be worth 25 cents which made the math easy, because the quarter-dollar is a really common coin used for things in the US, most famously, laundromats but also soda machines and just making change in general. So if something like that ketchup, the sign says 8 shekels, take 1/3 of that and that's the price in US dollars. In other words, really cheap! In fact the prices I'm seeing are fantastic, with a possible exception of meat, but even that's a deal because it's locally grown Kosher meat for the price I pay for "generic" meat at H Mart or 99 Ranch. (The only silver lining here in the US is, I've noticed apparently Japanese and Chinese and Koreans do not like bloody meat. It's like it's been Koshered. Somehow, for some reason, I've never seen a drop of blood on meat from any of my beloved East Asian markets. So while it's not Kosher, it's much closer to it than the meat in, say, a Safeway.)
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