Oh yeah, I know about that joke. I can even be grateful that the Bulgarians have been given cheaper and more accessible alcohol. They need it! This is very sad and this is the situation in quite a few former Russian and communist countries in general. The population needs alcohol to survive mentally if they can survive physically before and after alcohol.

But I keep asking myself - is this really life? It starts with some high hopes, and it gets to a point where you can't buy basic things. I especially lament myself, because I am still young, in the prime of my powers, my brain and body work well, but I cannot find a livelihood that uses these still good functions. I think there is something wrong here, some broken pixel that is distorting the whole picture, I keep thinking there is something I can do to fix it, but nothing changes no matter what I do, that wrong pixel is still there, actually it's like a frozen desktop that doesn't change... Things look unreal and completely wrong.

I suppose all that unsold and expired food would otherwise need more time, energy and money to get composted.

Actually, I have no idea what happens to expired food. We know full well that some of the meat is marinated and repackaged, I don't know at what stage of its "life", but it certainly isn't the freshest meat. As I said, I question everything here and I suspect there are bad practices in everything and everywhere.
But you are right that it is good for the environment. Hehe, I hadn't considered myself an environmentalist from that point of view either. That's what cheered me up already 😃

The weekend can't be great, they turned off the water as usual and now I can't take a shower again. This is another wonderful part of the "high quality" life that goes on here.😕