Me (summoning my courage in a German grocery store where I can’t find the pepper): Entschuldigung, ich suche die Gewürze.
[crosses fingers that the answer is simple]
Grocery employee: Sie sind mit...
@Joshua A.C. Newman ::::)))) Gemüse means vegetables in fact, whereas Gewürze means spices. Seems to have worked. I suppose you made it back home well. Was good to meet!
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