Budget Travel Magazine Supermarket Souvenirs

Roasted Chicken with Lemon & Thyme potato chips! Taken May 2007 in Corfu, Greece. ~Wanda Brown - Gaithersburg, MD

This makes twist-off caps look traditional: Iron Wine sells malbec cabernet and chenin blanc in aluminum cans. The 12-ounce cans are available at upscale shops and bars in Argentina for $2 to $6. --Celeste Moure

Bagging our own bagette in Paris

This pig-liver pâté from Portugal isn’t bad (though it isn’t really good, either). Best of all (if you like it, of course), it comes in lunch-size portions. --Tom Berger, Copy Editor, Budget Travel

Athens Greece Central Market Olives

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Near Nagano, Japan Farmer's Market Barbecued River Fish on a Stick

Sydney Australia American Mustard

Spice vendor in Tangiers Bazaar

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Venice Italy Buying Wine at a Vinaria

Isla Margarita Venezuela Beizbol Cola

On the island of Kauai, there is a farmer's market every day.

Snake wine anyone? Ben Trang Market, Ho Chi Minh City

Munich butcher shop

Those of you in the US with kids will recognize the Capri-Sun juice drinks, but maybe not the exotic flavours!

In Buenos Aires, even grocery shopping is a party! (Photo of Colleen Egan and Colleen Clark, taken by Sheila Ormond)

Durian and dragon fruit, one looks scary and one smells bad, can you guess which is which?

Grilled shrimp and pepper Pringles in Beijing.

Young Gouda cheese in Germany

Here are kimchi flavored potato chips at a Beijing 7-11.

"I picked up Inca Kola in Peru when I was hiking to Machu Picchu last summer. The color of the stuff is frightening, and its taste--toxic sweet--didn't help any. But that blue and yellow packaging won me over." --Laura MacNeil, Assistant Editor, Budget Travel

chocolate white asparagus and June Beetles

marzipan figurines

"I bought these dried grape leaves in Cyprus where they're stuffed with minced meat, rice, and spices for a dish called Koupepia. It's served just about everywhere and it's excellent." --David LaHuta, Assistant Editor, Budget Travel

Beijing Candy Store

"This caviar paste is from Stockholm--the hotel even served tiny tubes in the breakfast buffet. It's supposed to be refrigerated, though, so I guess I'll never taste it." --Erik Torkells, Editor, Budget Travel

Fengdu China Meat Market

Market in China