the Nonsense in Between

My Mexican Supermarket Adventure

Did you know there's a supermarket designed for mexicans?! If not read on and I'll tell you all about it.

The other day Dominic and I were watching the spanish channel when a commercial came on for Avanza "La tienda que te ayuda ahorrar" (the store that helps you save). So we succumbed to the advertising masters. (We are weak.)

We get there in only five minutes but I swear we crossed the border somewhere. Inside, Dominic suddenly became a minority and even though I'm not white I didnt look like I belonged there either. Regardless, we shopped around and found many great treasures. The first were the avocados. Sure there are avocados at your regular grocer but there they usually cost $1-$2 each, but here they're only 45 cents!! The cost of the yummy, ripe peaches was significantly lower too! Throughout the store were authentic mexican foods that you usually only find confined to one portion of one isle called "Ethnic foods" or "mexican and chinese foods." Dominic was in heaven when he found a wall full of various hot sauces. We were both amazed when we found our favorite find of all: Pepsi. We don't normally drink soda but this one was special. You see in Mexico they recycle glass bottles, as in they just clean and refill them. So in the mexican supermarket there's all these really old soda bottles that have been recycled so much they're all scratched and chipped. It was so cool we had to buy one (see photo below). The neatest part of it all was that up at the checkout area they had a live Mariachi band! My roots have been nourished.