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One of the giddy joys of traveling through Europe is walking into supermarkets and basking in the glow of shelf after shelf of foods with completely foreign names.

And the occasional hilarious bit of English.

Mot doesn't seem convinced by its partiness.

In case you're wondering, think red creaming soda except a disturbing yellow colour instead of the usual red.

Each country also has its own peculiar packaging quirk and Sweden's clearly got a thing for what we dubbed Food In A Tube. They've taken the sausage-like plastic tube we know and filled it with a range of foods we don't. This ranged from (but wasn't by any means limited to) soup, stews, pre-cooked pasta and sauce, muffin mix to my personal favourite, jam.

Strawberry jam in a plastic tube is the supermarket equivalent of a lava lamp.

From memory it was also in Sweden that we saw biscuits sold in bulk. Not that unusual in itself, until you realise that they're sold in the form of a giant wheel-o-biscuits roughly the size and shape of a car tyre. Matt claims it was one giant über-biscuit, but I reserve judgement until we actually buy one and crack open the packaging.

I can't wait to offer someone a biscuit with their cup of tea, then pop open the car boot to grab the biscuit wheel from the spare tyre compartment.