steveinbsas said:
Trying to find the things you like in BAthat are equal to those of the US is damn near futile.
Here are just a few of the things I would buy on a regular basis here (if they were available):
Decent raisins or prunes.
High quality roasted in the shell peanuts.
Safeway brand white chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookies (among others).
I might be able to help with a few of these things.
1) The fruit, grain, nuts, & spice place that recently opened up on Junin b/n Tucuman & Lavalle has really big, nice quality dark raisins. Much bigger than you would normally find in a SUNMAID box back in the States... but they're good. And then they have normal sized yellow (green?) raisins.
Prunes are hit and miss everywhere, but I don't think that I've bought from these guys.
2) Peanuts in Shell...
I got some the other day at a fruit place in Palermo Hollywood somwhere around Carranza & Guatemala. I've also found them at my fruit place and then I think at that place mentioned in #1. They're not great, but they'll do. They seemed to have been larger than US ballpark peanuts, but they weren't roasted after having been soaked in salt water (or whatever makes them salty in the States.)
3) There is a SUBWAY Sandwich shop around Lavalle & Reconquista in the microcenter. My roommate (she's British, but knows a thing or two about American cookies) occasionally goes there to get a cookie for her cravings. In the States Subway definitely has a white chocolate with macadamia nut cookie. So look up Subway locations in BsAs.