Maritza and I were walking through the Jumbo, which is a grocery store the size of Costco and as crowded as ... well very crowded. And everybody has an enormous shopping cart to boot. Anyway, we're pushing our way through this zoo, and Maritza sees ramen, but it's not that cheap (like 350 pesos or something per pack—60 cents). Then we notice granola bars, and some other American looking food. We finally look up and there's this ridiculous deccoration of Red , White and Blue and a sign that says, basically, "Long live the flavors of the U
SA." We thought it was pretty funny, especially because the flavors of the USA were exemplefied by ramen and granola bars. We looked around a little more and realized that the seemingly most celebrated food was ketchup, of which they had a very large stock.
Maritza and I were walking through the Jumbo, which is a grocery store the size of Costco and as crowded as ... well very crowded. And everybody has an enormous shopping cart to boot. Anyway, we're pushing our way through this zoo, and Maritza sees ramen, but it's not that cheap (like 350 pesos or something per pack—60 cents). Then we notice granola bars, and some other American looking food. We finally look up and there's this ridiculous deccoration of Red , White and Blue and a sign that says, basically, "Long live the flavors of the U
SA." We thought it was pretty funny, especially because the flavors of the USA were exemplefied by ramen and granola bars. We looked around a little more and realized that the seemingly most celebrated food was ketchup, of which they had a very large stock.
2 comments:
Dude...I find that the conception/infiltration of American foods are weird here too - the condiments that people use on EVERYTHING are mayonaise, ketchup, and mustard, pretty much without discrimination. It's part of the "plato paceno" - the typical dish of La Paz. But I do have to say, I love ketchup, yummmm.
that's wonderful.
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