Yellow Jacket Times - Jefferson County Public Schools

Grocery Stores Need to Sell More Vegetables
Mu Raw Paw
I am from Thailand, but I’m Karen. I love to eat rice and
vegetables, but in the grocery store, there are not all the
kinds of foods I eat. Some people from Myanmar are
unhappy about going to American grocery stores because
they can’t find what they want. We have to go to Asian stores to buy food. It’s ok to go
sometimes because we can get food we like, but there are only a few Asian stores and they are
far from our houses so we can’t go every week.
burmese people who buy in
grocery
do not have to go to many stores.
who only buy food
in grocery
who buy in grocery
and asian
buys only in asian
store
Today, in Louisville there are
about 800 people from Myanmar.
Some of them don’t like American
food and they don’t eat it. They
just like the food that is from
Myanmar. These people would
really like to see more Asian food
in grocery stores. Burmese and
Karen people don’t need to go to
the Asian store because they like
to eat some American food. That
makes it easier for them since they
In the grocery store, there are only 2 or 3 kinds of rice. But it is too soft and some are too hard
for the kinds of rice that people from Myanmar like. Also, there are not a lot of Asian
vegetables in American grocery stores. People from Asian love to eat vegetables and they eat
them every day. In addition, the grocery stores do not have all the Asian sauces we like.
If the grocery store sold more variety of vegetables and rice, it would increase business. One of
my neighbors said, “I will be glad if the grocery sells rice that I use to eat and vegetables, too. I
will stop going to the Asian store and only go to the grocery. If they sell more kinds of foods
that I like, it will be great because I don’t need to go so far for
only a few things that I need.”
If the grocery stores sell more food that Myanmar people like, it
will be great and helpful for the Myanmar people. They will be
happier and won’t waste a lot of their time traveling, or money
for gas. It will give the grocery store more business. It will be
great for everybody because the more vegetables they eat, the
healthier they will be.