OH, and decent tomatoes, (not great, but decent), were 150 a kilo at my local outlet of the Peruvian Vegetable Mafia last night.
While I'm at it, let me add that while I joke about the PVM, I am deeply aware that those people work long, hard hours in brutal heat doing a dirty, thankless, poorly-paid job. The prices are not their fault. As in most things here, the problem is a chain of distribution which is ridiculously long and horribly inefficient. The growers are paid insultingly low prices while the consumers are gouged shamelessly, and the produce is often less than entirely fresh by the time it reaches the kitchen of the consumer.
This also applies to eggs, which is
particularly aggravating when trying to poach them, grrrrr!
***edit***
While I'm at it, let me answer the rhetorical question I asked in my previous post in this thread -
Average price in San Diego, California: $4.96 ($4.96). Find out the current prices for a whole list of other products in San Diego, California (United States).
www.expatistan.com
It's showing 4.38 USD per kilo for tomatoes in San Diego, which at 226 ARS per dollar, is 989 ARS. I'm not sure what to make of that. But this is a live data site, so that will fluctuate.
Looking around that Expatistan site is horrifying. I haven't been stateside since early 2014, and I didn't realize how much prices had gone up. I'd be homeless if I was still there.
Cost of Living in San Diego, California, United States :: Average prices of more than 50 products and services in San Diego, California, United States.
www.expatistan.com
