Ok so on request of what it is like to buy food here. I have a funny story. Yesterday, I went to this grocery store while Anne stayed home. I was going to go pick up some orange juice and when I got there I decided to buy some of the local beer too. It is about 3 pesos or 1 dollar for a 1000ml bottle (it is actually quite good, not cheap tasting).
Anyway, when I walk up to the cash register with my orange juice and beer, the cashier takes the beer and looks at it and then looks at me and says something that I don't quite catch. I thought he asked if I had ID, but then he takes the bottle Argentine beer and puts it back on the shelf where the beer is and starts pointing to bottles of Heineken and Bud Light. It seems like he won't let me select any of the local beers and I can't understand what he wants. About this time, a local sees us talking in the isle and asks in English if he can help. I ask him if he speaks English and he says yes, but then when he tries to help he speaks only Spanish (he really didn't speak much English). Anyway, after a long time of the two of them speaking the same phrase over and over again explaining what I need to do, I finally guess that they are saying that I need to return any of the beer bottles that are local. I ask them if that is what they are saying and they confirm it, but the cashier says that I need to bring it back tomorrow.
Being a 1000ml of beer and me being a light drinker, I am thinking that there is no way I am going to be able to finish the beer by tomorrow, so while I am paying for the beer, I go into another drawn out conversation with the man trying to determine whether it is necessary if I return the bottle by tomorrow or if I can turn it in later because I actually don't want to drink the whole bottle tonight. At this point a lady, who has been waiting in a different line (who I can actually understand) jokingly says in Spanish, "who cares when or where you drink the beer. That's not important. Just bring the bottle back when you are done." Thank you! Finally!! Oh good times speaking Spanish with people who have strong accents!
BTW gas is about 2.20 pesos per liter, Anne and I often buy amazing grande (eight slice) pizzas for 18 pesos, and pedestrians don't have the right of way but sidewalks are quite safe.
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Why exactly do they need the beer bottle back? Is that their way of recycling it?
Hey, I love the pictures! What exactly is wrong with your stove?
Love, Mom
The beer bottle needs to be brought back because of recycling. They charge $2 (Argentine) for the bottle and then $2 for the beer. When you bring it back you get the $2 back...
Patty--If you click on the picture of the stove and look at the dials you will see how there is no "high, mid., or low" there are only dots. They start out big then get small and then get big again...to make it worse the oven is the same so we have no way of knowing what temp. the oven is at...we burned fries the other day :D
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