mexico

Comercial Mexicana

This is a huge supermarket, a national chain. It is the place where you can buy various household good and socks and underwear, a place that incorporates bitty restaurants and bakeries. Comercial is huge and well lit, and arranged for complete leisure shopping.

Supermarkets are a good place to learn the language. For example today I picked up tocino and endulzante, and in context I understood them to mean bacon and sweetener respectively.

Vegetables in Mexico, although inclusive of items (like cactus, or nopales) I have no idea of how to cook, are pretty straightforward. Buying meat is not so easy. The cuts aren’t the same as I am used to. We bought some New York steak, which was cut as thinly as meat in Italy.

Hot tortillas, and freshly made tortilla chips can be found. Mustard, something I consider a standard, cannot. The candy aisle drives me a little mad, as all I want is to eat tamarindo or other delicious dulces. And yes, they sell Fanta, even in teeny tiny 250ml bottles.