Disappointed with Food in Argentina

[Che1990]

I’ve always said that Argentine’s obsession and love of sandwich de miga says it all about the standards of food in this country.

Processed bread, processed cheese, processed ham is a national obsession.

10 years living here and I won’t ever get used to the poor quality,and at best mediocre diet and food.

Don’t get me wrong, you can get good food here but it’s a head ache. You have to go to different specialist places.

What you get in the supermarkets or average day-to-day shops is horribly processed food with little fresh taste and tasting like chemicals. The bread, the sauces, the hams, the milk everything

If you want a half decent sandwich, you have to go to a specialist bakery, a fiambreria, and a verduleria. Imagine making a sandwich with the stuff you get in a supermarket here!

 

[retiredbanker]

Hersheys literally tastes like vomit I don’t know how anyone can eat it.

If we want to get on about food in the States we could go on…

Hershey's does over $11 billion in annual sales so they must be doing something right.

As for cuisine, my ONLY trip to London, in 1969, left me with a memory if just how bland English food is. Simpsons on the Strand, if it's still in operation, was touted as among the best. It wasn't. Barf.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Hershey's does over $11 billion in annual sales so they must be doing something right.

As for cuisine, my ONLY trip to London, in 1969, left me with a memory if just how bland English food is. Simpsons on the Strand, if it's still in operation, was touted as among the best. It wasn't. Barf.

Things have come a long way in 55 years.
Hershey’s is still disgusting.

 

[jantango]

Big Food is in business for one reason -- to make lots of money. Everything they produce is processed and full of too much salt, sugar, or oil. They don't care about people getting sick from food. Is it any wonder that chronic disease is so high in the US and obesity is now common in children. It's so sad.

We have the simple option to eat real food for our health. I do.

 

[retiredbanker]

Things have come a long way in 55 years.
Hershey’s is still disgusting.

Hard to take advice on food from one of the worst foods on the market, a hotdog.

 

[GreenEgg]

I agree. The food here reminds me of what people say about British food in the 1970s. I disagree about seasoning, though. If meat is good, you can eat it without sauce or seasoning and it's delicious. That is definitely not the case with the meat here. The food in grocery stores is not good quality. The fruit and vegetables are poor. The meat is bland. The eggs have pale yellow yolks without flavour. You can find good eggs in specialty health food shops, though. But yeah, I miss the food in Colombia. Their food is much more healthy, fresh, and wholesome. Still, BA has so much of what I want in a city that it still might be worth it. I'm hoping you can still find good food with a little work (like with the egg example). I found some delicious, wholesome bread, too.

 

[steveinbsas]

If meat is good, you can eat it without sauce or seasoning and it's delicious. That is definitely not the case with the meat here

My "local" carnicero operates his shop in the residential zone one km from my house. There is no sign or anything written on the front of the building that indicates the business is located there and there are no other businesses in the same block.

Occasionally he doesn't have a huge sellection, but that only happens when he rejects a side of beef that doesn't meet his standards.

This is what I'm preparing for dinner at this moment. I often add a pinch of sea salt, but even without any seasoning, it always tastes delicious, just like the roast beef my mom made when I was growing up in the 1950"s and '60's.

 

[argeiCanuck]

My "local" carnicero operates his shop in the residential zone one km from my house. There is no sign or anything written on the front of the building that indicates the business is located there and there are no other businesses in the same block.

Occasionally he doesn't have a huge sellection, but that only happens when he rejects a side of beef that doesn't meet his standards.

This is what I'm preparing for dinner at this moment. I often add a pinch of sea salt, but even without any seasoning, it always tastes delicious, just like the roast beef my mom made when I was growing up in the 1950"s and '60's.

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Please a better picture. Can't see.

 

[argeiCanuck]

New item by Carlis Suipacha

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Smoked salmon, (Philadelphia/Finlandia) cream cheese, limon, sliced onion. ,,,,,,, Nada de cooking ,, voila !

 

[SinPulgas]

..I'm hoping you can still find good food with a little work (like with the egg example)....

Yes, you can, but you do sometimes have to work at it. If you find a good carniceria or granja, you should be good for meat, eggs and chicken. Vegetables are trickier, in my experience. Even good verdulerias many times don't have good stuff. I walk a lot and I always bring my mochila, and I'm always on the lookout for good fruits and vegetables. Most verdulerias also carry eggs; if you find one with good eggs, they're usually always good at that place (at least until they're suddenly not).

It's funny that you mention pale egg yolks. I bought some eggs recently at a verduleria near me, and the yolks were almost white. I'd never seen that before. I felt bad for the poor chickens.