Cooking in Holland

Probably the largest shock for me here in the Netherlands is the food. It seems they don't like food very much and tend to put "stuff" on a slice of bread (1 slice) and call it a sandwich. Shopping for groceries turns out to be quite a challenge since most people in the grocery store don't (or won't) speak English, and we are getting some surprises. Too bad the food doesn't have an English translation on the label. For example, this morning I opened up what was supposed to be bacon (at least to the eye) and found a very thin slice of bacon (like prosciutto except a pinker color) wrapped around a lump of pink ground meat. Google tells me that the label says the meat is actually beef, but last I checked beef was red. Anywho I'm sure I will fry it up in my standard issue wok and put it on 2 slices of bread. But at last I have my coffee pot so all is well, I just need to find better coffee it seems even LavAzza is weak here.