Feb 08 2009
Aspirin
Aspirin: You can get it by twos in yellow, small paper sacs at any of the corner drugstores you find in France. You can tell they are pharmacies because 1) they all have large, green neon crosses jutting out over the sidewalk and 2) they are on just about every corner. The first place I ever bought an aspirin was at one of these in Bourg-en-Bresse. The city has 40,000 people and 4,964 pharmacies. There was an entire wall dedicated to aspirin in my pharmacy – can you imagine the quantity of these little pills in this mini metropolis alone? It’s no wonder Bayer is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world – they’ve got half of France hopped up on aspirin!
