"JG" said:
to answer your querry tangobob, no they dont seem to understand fresh. they deliver food to stores on flatbed trucks burning under the hot sun. i was in an agricultural area in the pampa last week. the supermarket had rotting shrivled up vegetables. i was home a few months ago, it was not the case. i bought fresh fish, fresh fruit and vegetables. its a matter of doign it right. try telling an argentine about another way of doing something, you might as well talk to a block of cement.
My advice, bring peptol bismol from home and keep your fingers crossed while shpping here as quality and standards are low.
there are certain stores that are not as careful as they should be and if you detect that you should report it to the Direccion Nacional de Bromatologia http://www.alimentosargentinos.gov.ar/
As much as certain vegetables lack of beauty, bare in mind that a lot of them are not full of hormones and genetically altered ( I´d rather eat healthy despite the outer beauty of the product ). Same goes with meats.
As a rule of thumb, veggies, fruit, meats are always better at small stores than at supermarkets. It is just that a lot of people don´t want to spend extra time picking good products.
On a side note, most people here buy they bread just baked ( in the mornign ) as well as pastries and criossants, so I am very curious as to where you guys are shopping for this stuff (?)
In general argentines always look for the freshest groceries, and they are widely available ( in any barrio housewives go shopping for groceries everyday to get the freshest veggies, bread, etc )
Please provide some more info, as I said before, I really never heard before that fresh products where hard to get (! )
