Fun To Look Back At Prices
JAN 2015 Four years 4 months later May 2018 the price for 45 Kg same company $907.00 Pesos 14.60 pesos for the dollar ATM 20 January 2015 19.72 pesos for the dollar ATM 21 May 2018...
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Yep. Stuff in the mid sixties was embarrassingly cheap. In agricultural area it was quite possible to buy fruits and vegetables for two for a week for forty cents.
Gas. "I don't trust it" one Zapoteca told me as she dumped an armload of firewood on the table next to her clay stove.
Beer. Gallo from Guatemala is now in many Mexican supermarkets. I am not a beer drinker but on some especially torrid summer afternoons I will chill a six-pack of Leon Negro to the verge of freezing then let it trickle down the back of my throat, burning and tingling. Anything from the USA these days is exotic therefore foreign beer is becoming common. Michelob Light, yuck.
Trucks parked off highway asphalt have always gotten my attention. Possible to encounter costales (sacks) of superb oranges from Veracruz, cabbages, and saladita tomatoes at incredible prices.
About the best thing to creep south of the border is Kirkland Signature toilet paper. I used to laugh at Petalo and Regio. Crack rude jokes. "Docena Revoluciones" 12-revolutions of 1/4" thick "papel para impaques (gasket paper) and the roll was done. Loading my RV I used to throw in cases of USA single layer toilet paper. Jeez they were heavy and lasted forever. Pass them out as gifts. Talk about raised eyebrows. But like my gifts of Tabasco sauce, at the end of my stay there would be the inevitable "Bring More!"
Jesus well remembers the success I had with CHEVRON TECHRON gasoline additive. Our area has not seen extraneous regular gasoline only the now much more expensive Pemex Premium. He wants me to ship a case via ESTAFETA but I cannot imagine the cost. For the summer I'm hiding out within day travel to my US specialists MDs. It is a different world up here. Mexico yes. Traditional Mexico, absolutely not.
Gas. "I don't trust it" one Zapoteca told me as she dumped an armload of firewood on the table next to her clay stove.
Beer. Gallo from Guatemala is now in many Mexican supermarkets. I am not a beer drinker but on some especially torrid summer afternoons I will chill a six-pack of Leon Negro to the verge of freezing then let it trickle down the back of my throat, burning and tingling. Anything from the USA these days is exotic therefore foreign beer is becoming common. Michelob Light, yuck.
Trucks parked off highway asphalt have always gotten my attention. Possible to encounter costales (sacks) of superb oranges from Veracruz, cabbages, and saladita tomatoes at incredible prices.
About the best thing to creep south of the border is Kirkland Signature toilet paper. I used to laugh at Petalo and Regio. Crack rude jokes. "Docena Revoluciones" 12-revolutions of 1/4" thick "papel para impaques (gasket paper) and the roll was done. Loading my RV I used to throw in cases of USA single layer toilet paper. Jeez they were heavy and lasted forever. Pass them out as gifts. Talk about raised eyebrows. But like my gifts of Tabasco sauce, at the end of my stay there would be the inevitable "Bring More!"
Jesus well remembers the success I had with CHEVRON TECHRON gasoline additive. Our area has not seen extraneous regular gasoline only the now much more expensive Pemex Premium. He wants me to ship a case via ESTAFETA but I cannot imagine the cost. For the summer I'm hiding out within day travel to my US specialists MDs. It is a different world up here. Mexico yes. Traditional Mexico, absolutely not.
