Lime-flavored mayonnaise!
Pre-cut jicama! Perfect for salads. Or snacking. Or whatever.
They also had huge, tube-shaped purple radishes; bags of pre-cut, shredded beets; dried papaya cubes dusted in chili powder (and dried apricots prepared the same way). I wanted to get all that but didn’t. Our fridge is only so big.
Surprisingly, a lot of the products were in English. The cereal aisle was pure General Mills.
Love that you’re doing this!
*dipping finger in lime-flavored mayo, suspiciously eyeing tube-shaped purple radish*
I love hearing about your new neighborhood. Can’t believe you live in Mexico now! Awesome.
fucking foul.
fucking foul.
Dunno that I know what jicama is. Did they have Frankenberry cereal?
You know, they might have. I can’t specifically recall. I think I was too busy staring at the All-Bran and Kelloggs and Cheerios and stuff.
“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! — and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?”
–Alan Ginsburg, “A Supermarket in California,” excerpt.
In your case, in Mexico City.
By the way if you ever get bored, have a discussion with a Mexican about Limón vs Lima and the proper name for those green or yellow citrus fruits. Apparently in Spain Limón is lemon and Lima is lime, the exact opposite as Mexico. You can have hours of confusing conversation on this topic.
And what better place to have it than a supermarket where you can actually pick up the fruit in question and gesture with it?
Regards,
Kim G
Boston, MA
Kim: I did notice that, actually — how limón here is a lime. I lived in Spain during college so I always thought the opposite. I asked for mineral water con limón the other day, and I meant lemon, but of course they didn’t bring me that. Gotta remember for next time.