Shopping at the Supermarket

One way to appreciate the everyday lives of a city's residents is to see where they shop and what they eat. In Rosario, I took the opportunity to visit a few grocery stores and small markets. Much of what I found was the same as any similar store in the U.S. with the exception of how the food was presented and its cost in U.S. dollars. The currency exchange is about 3 pesos per U.S. dollar meaning that the meat shown at $2.18 (pesos) per kilo (1 kilo = 2.2 pounds) is about 70 cents U.S. per pound! I found butternut squash in every market, often cut in half to reveal its quality. Detergent was packaged in small bags rather than bottled liquids or boxed powder. The wine is astonishly inexpensive. In the grocery stores, a wide variety of wines including my favorite varietal, Malbec, rarely exceeded $3.00 U.S. per bottle.