I've never considered that shopping habits might play a role in the whole US/EU wash-or-don't discussion. Where I live most people go to the supermarket regula

I've never considered that shopping habits might play a role in the whole US/EU wash-or-don't discussion. Where I live most people go to the supermarket regularly. I go almost daily, for example. As a result, stuff doesn't need to have a very long shelf life (and refrigerators here are, to many of my American friends, hilariously small).