Apparently in the case of Venezuela (based on a tik tok I watched) is that we have pasta packages of one kilo and salsa de ajo ( a condiment use to season meat made with vinegar garlic paste and water i guess)
Apparently in the case of Venezuela (based on a tik tok I watched) is that we have pasta packages of one kilo and salsa de ajo ( a condiment use to season meat made with vinegar garlic paste and water i guess)
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I suppose the amount of salsas we have and other condiments, and likely the variety of american products due to integration with the US. We also have 1K or more pasta packages here.
No idea, everything here is normal to me, I’d need a foreigner’s opinion lol. Those things about Venezuela sound quite normal imo… There’s salsa de ajo here… Though the standard pasta package here is 500g, unless it’s frozen, those are bigger.
We got 1kg pasta but also 3kg. Another different aspect would be aisles just for yerba mate, some with 5kg coal like bags of yerba.
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I think it’s weird that we sell milk in plastic bags instead of plastic containers. Not sure if the rest of south america does the same.
I’m talking about regular milk not any fancy almond milk or other vegan options in carton containers, we got those as well.
what the hell do you guys do with those packages of premade toast? They’re like gigantic croutons?
My friend bought some one time when i asked for bread and i thought my teeth were gonna break (i had never seen them before traveling in south america)
Not sure if unique, but very cool nonetheless: in many supermarkets the posters showing the prices are hand written and the penmanship used is a folk art:
Look at this!
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Surely many distinctives of Mexican cuisine such as sauces or spices. But what I find curious is that now typical food is sold canned and it also has a good flavor.
The most unique i think is we have alot of variety we got Mexican brands and American brands we also have entire aisles dedicated to tortillas and salsas and spicy flavored snacks
If I am to believe the videos I’ve seen made by Latin American vloggers in supermarkets in Mexico, there are quite a few differences.
The produce section has a lot of chilies that aren’t very common in other parts of Latin America, also the sale of nopales, which seemingly no one else eats. Another thing they often bring up is the difference in variety. We have a lot of national brands, localized foreign brands, and imported products, so we’re not starved for choice. Not saying the rest of the region is, but there’s definitely a lot of variety here.
Milk bags
Big-ass strawberries and avocados.
Hamburger hot pockets? I’m still confused.
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A lot of Argentinians traveled to Brasil this summer and for whatever crazy reason Argentinian teenagers went mad about these hot pockets and I kept getting videos on my TikTok fy page of them buying a ton of these frozen hamburgers that taste like clinical depression. If anyone can enlighten me what the hell was that, I’d appreciate it.
Sifones
5kg bags of rice, cassava flour in different forms, ready-made farofa, typical sweets, trays with 30 eggs, Hot Pocket (the frozen hamburger that you mentioned previously), frozen escondidinho (national version of Sheppard Pie), frozen snacks for frying (coxinha, risoles, quibes, mini pastries and cheese balls), tilapia steak (a giant tilapia nugget), cheese bread
The packages of tortillas made on the same day close to the aisle you pay?
When I moved to chile the supermarket had, inside of it, a ceviche bar, an empanada bakery, and a cafe with coffee/tea/sandwiches/cake. You could just park your cart and have a bite. This came in handy when I was pregnant.
That cereals and other products don’t have cartoons because they encouraged children to consume those things. It was a measure to reduce childhood obesity. But apparently, they started implementing it in other countries as well.
Mexico has a HUGE variety of yogurt. Sweetened, unsweetened, organic, vegan, high protein, sugar free, drinkable, with cereal or candies, you name it.
So I’m not sure how unique to Brazil but the meat department is usually huge and it is always stocked with the materials you might need to make a barbecue, charcoal, coarse salt, grills and skewers, alcohol (to light up the charcoal) packs of ice, etc.
Dulce de leche and alfajores aisles probably (well I guess Uruguayans do too)