Border Zone Tax Reduced By 8% 2019
Supposedly for a strip 20 Km wide. But Ensenada is included. The previous administration raised the sales tax from 8% to 16%. The new president restored it to 8%. It means 8% less expensive gasolin...
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How many morphs has Conasupo gone through?
Conasuper
Solidaridad
Tienda Rural
Liconsa
Disconsa
There are many other manifestations but I have forgotten them.
Comida Corrida (current lunch at a rural restaurant)
Chicken leg without thigh half the size of a Bochococo of today
Mole de Puebla brown or Oaxaca green
Plain white rice
Frijoles refritos refried beans
Salad shredded cabbage with a half limon to squeeze
8 tortillas hand made
Agua Fresca made with limon and sugar
No Es Cafe and a cup filled with tepid well water.
The idea was to strip the meat off the bone, and fill a tortilla with a mix off the plate and make a half dozen tacos. This stretched the 9 oz of food on the plate to fill a person up. The bill? Fourteen Pesos about a dollar twenty cents.
If there was anything that could worsen the bitter taste of NesCafe it was to brew it with well water. There was no purified water back then. Tap water from Tepic Nayarit and Xalapa Vera Cruz was treasured for it's sweet taste.
A rural hole-in-the-wall restaurant had no electrical power. Candles set into niches on the wall usually in motive glass with the virgin mary. And on wooden slat tables with folding wooden chairs. Order and the room temperature coca cola or 100 degree coffee water was served immediately followed by a full 45 minute wait even in an empty restaurant. Sometimes ordering chicken meant hearing a distant squawk. A menu may be long and elaborate. Get used to hearing "No Hay" there isn't any" answer to your order.
Need pesos? Get to a bank before 11:00 AM then wait for a half hour. Dollars? As useless as currency from Mongolia outside of large tourist areas and cities.
Gasoline was cheap but the quality made it seem like a ripoff. Super red pump Mexolina had no counterpart in the USA except maybe barbecue lighter fluid. Yellow pump Pemex Cien was only found in cities and even then hoses draped over the dispenser meant "out of gas"
And TOPES pot holes. Endless. Like chicken pox.
Enter a large town and find absolutely no signs. Like a Kit Carson trail blazer, try to track the trail of the densest oil drippings on the asphalt.
Ice plants were ammonia. The ice reeked of it. Unpurified water.
Some people over time filter out the challenges leaving nothing but memories of paradise. I'm defective. I remember everything.
Conasuper
Solidaridad
Tienda Rural
Liconsa
Disconsa
There are many other manifestations but I have forgotten them.
Comida Corrida (current lunch at a rural restaurant)
Chicken leg without thigh half the size of a Bochococo of today
Mole de Puebla brown or Oaxaca green
Plain white rice
Frijoles refritos refried beans
Salad shredded cabbage with a half limon to squeeze
8 tortillas hand made
Agua Fresca made with limon and sugar
No Es Cafe and a cup filled with tepid well water.
The idea was to strip the meat off the bone, and fill a tortilla with a mix off the plate and make a half dozen tacos. This stretched the 9 oz of food on the plate to fill a person up. The bill? Fourteen Pesos about a dollar twenty cents.
If there was anything that could worsen the bitter taste of NesCafe it was to brew it with well water. There was no purified water back then. Tap water from Tepic Nayarit and Xalapa Vera Cruz was treasured for it's sweet taste.
A rural hole-in-the-wall restaurant had no electrical power. Candles set into niches on the wall usually in motive glass with the virgin mary. And on wooden slat tables with folding wooden chairs. Order and the room temperature coca cola or 100 degree coffee water was served immediately followed by a full 45 minute wait even in an empty restaurant. Sometimes ordering chicken meant hearing a distant squawk. A menu may be long and elaborate. Get used to hearing "No Hay" there isn't any" answer to your order.
Need pesos? Get to a bank before 11:00 AM then wait for a half hour. Dollars? As useless as currency from Mongolia outside of large tourist areas and cities.
Gasoline was cheap but the quality made it seem like a ripoff. Super red pump Mexolina had no counterpart in the USA except maybe barbecue lighter fluid. Yellow pump Pemex Cien was only found in cities and even then hoses draped over the dispenser meant "out of gas"
And TOPES pot holes. Endless. Like chicken pox.
Enter a large town and find absolutely no signs. Like a Kit Carson trail blazer, try to track the trail of the densest oil drippings on the asphalt.
Ice plants were ammonia. The ice reeked of it. Unpurified water.
Some people over time filter out the challenges leaving nothing but memories of paradise. I'm defective. I remember everything.
