What is the food you miss most from "home?"

[wineguy999]

I know nothing about supermarkets in Europe, but in North America, ie, the USA and Canada, supermarket bread is low quality and from giant corporate bakeries.
I never buy bread at a supermarket in either.

Where are you talking about in the US? In the last place I lived in TX, I had four supermarkets within 2 miles of my home that had in-house bakeries producing excellent baked goods. Within 4 miles my last CA home, I had five supermarkets, only one of which (Safeway) had a lousy bread selection, but still had higher quality (ie organic, natural) regional products to choose from. I just want to know where you’re talking about so I can avoid it.

 

[Gringo80]

It would nice to be able to just walk into a regular supermarket and get an edible loaf of bread

Can you make that rye bread or pumpernickle?

 

[perry]

Where are you talking about in the US? In the last place I lived in TX, I had four supermarkets within 2 miles of my home that had in-house bakeries producing excellent baked goods. Within 4 miles my last CA home, I had five supermarkets, only one of which (Safeway) had a lousy bread selection, but still had higher quality (ie organic, natural) regional products to choose from. I just want to know where you’re talking about so I can avoid it.

I agree with you something that the USA Canada Australia does much better than Argentina is bread in all its shapes and forms .

 

[Paige55]

or Fuerza or Obrador or Salvaje or Madre?
I know nothing about supermarkets in Europe, but in North America, ie, the USA and Canada, supermarket bread is low quality and from giant corporate bakeries.
I never buy bread at a supermarket in either.
I buy bread, in Buenos Aires or in the US, from small bakeries that bake every day, and use quality ingredients.
I have been here long enough to remember when there was no Pan Quotidein here, (their first argentine location was in 2012) and in those days, it was much harder to find decent bread, but now, there are at least a couple dozen good bakeries that bake bread daily, all over the more affluent barrios.
Probably harder to find in Villa Soldati than in Nunez, but there are a lot of them, and many will send em right over to your house by Rappi.

Also Anchoita Panaderia has great bread and they'll slice it for you, too. Which is appreciated, as my bread knife has seen better days and slicing at home leaves crumbs all over my counter. haha But Fuerza and Salvaje, I'll also second. Love their bread and it's not that much more expensive than crappy grocery store pap.

 

[FrankPintor]

I agree with you something that the USA Canada Australia does much better than Argentina is bread in all its shapes and forms .

Right, but this is not the Argentinian way.

Buenos Aires, at least, has fruit and veggie kiosks, egg shops, carnecerias and frigorificos, chicken shops, cake shops, drinks shops, grain and bean shops, cheese and charcuterie shops, and bread shops. In a lot of other places, these would all be out of business, and replaced by supermarkets and hypermarkets on the outskirts of town.

There isn't much I need to go to a supermarket for, other than a convenient neighbourhood chino, and I really don't mind going to each shop in turn, and actually dealing with someone who might know something about the products they're selling. I understand if people might not like this, I didn't at the beginning either, but it's a different paradigm, and you get to have some exercise as you walk around with your trolley. In Buenos Aires, at least, you'll find almost everything within a radius of 3 blocks (it's the ultimate 15 minute city, I think, a concept that's sure to raise some hackles).

 

[victoriarob]

or Fuerza or Obrador or Salvaje or Madre?
I know nothing about supermarkets in Europe, but in North America, ie, the USA and Canada, supermarket bread is low quality and from giant corporate bakeries.
I never buy bread at a supermarket in either.
I buy bread, in Buenos Aires or in the US, from small bakeries that bake every day, and use quality ingredients.
I have been here long enough to remember when there was no Pan Quotidein here, (their first argentine location was in 2012) and in those days, it was much harder to find decent bread, but now, there are at least a couple dozen good bakeries that bake bread daily, all over the more affluent barrios.
Probably harder to find in Villa Soldati than in Nunez, but there are a lot of them, and many will send em right over to your house by Rappi.

For lovers of Fuerza et al, a couple new bread recommendations in Almagro that deserve love: Gringa (Sánchez de Bustamante 814) and Acequia (Valentín Gómez 3402). Similar prices, great products and friendly people. Gringa does a really gorgeous big Scandinavian-style seeded rye loaf that freezes well.

 

[Ries]

Where are you talking about in the US? In the last place I lived in TX, I had four supermarkets within 2 miles of my home that had in-house bakeries producing excellent baked goods. Within 4 miles my last CA home, I had five supermarkets, only one of which (Safeway) had a lousy bread selection, but still had higher quality (ie organic, natural) regional products to choose from. I just want to know where you’re talking about so I can avoid it.

Washington State. Near Seattle. and Safeway, Haagans, Fred Meyer, and the Red Apple, which are the local chains, all have shitty mass produced bread. Call me a bread snob. I actually did repair work for one of the best bakeries in the area, and so have become addicted to their organic potato bread.
But here or there, I, personally, dont buy bread at a supermarket.
In Buenos Aires, I have gotten good bread at a bunch of small bakeries.
I much prefer shopping at stores specific to their merchandise- fiamberias, carnicerias, panaderias, verdulerias.
I dont much like supermarkets anywhere.
thats just me.
but there is good bread here.
just like many things in Argentina, the all in one shopping experience doesnt give you the same results as being pickier about where you buy.
I am very hardware oriented, and I go to at least 4 different ferreterias for different things.

 

[wineguy999]

Washington State. Near Seattle. and Safeway, Haagans, Fred Meyer, and the Red Apple, which are the local chains, all have shitty mass produced bread. Call me a bread snob. I actually did repair work for one of the best bakeries in the area, and so have become addicted to their organic potato bread.
But here or there, I, personally, dont buy bread at a supermarket.
In Buenos Aires, I have gotten good bread at a bunch of small bakeries.
I much prefer shopping at stores specific to their merchandise- fiamberias, carnicerias, panaderias, verdulerias.
I dont much like supermarkets anywhere.
thats just me.
but there is good bread here.
just like many things in Argentina, the all in one shopping experience doesnt give you the same results as being pickier about where you buy.
I am very hardware oriented, and I go to at least 4 different ferreterias for different things.

I'm with you on much of that. I shop at various outlets, buying this here and that there, always exploring the options. When I lived in Houston, I got excellent walnut raisin bread at Whole Foods; moved to the Bay Area, walked into the local WFM, didn't see the bread and asked the kid in the bakery for it. The response was - no joke - "There's bread with raisins in it?" Live and learn, eh?

 

[Ries]

I'm with you on much of that. I shop at various outlets, buying this here and that there, always exploring the options. When I lived in Houston, I got excellent walnut raisin bread at Whole Foods; moved to the Bay Area, walked into the local WFM, didn't see the bread and asked the kid in the bakery for it. The response was - no joke - "There's bread with raisins in it?" Live and learn, eh?

the nearest Whole Paycheck store to my farm is about 35 minutes drive each way, and there are two incredibly good small bakeries that use organic flour grown nearby, both within a five minute drive.
My wife does stock up on Eziequiel raisin bread at Trader Joes once a month or so...
but I live less than 200 meters, in Retiro, from 4 bakeries.

 

[on the brink]

Yes, two 600g tubs of Marmite for about USD 90. They weren’t there last time I searched for Marmite (or Vegemite, or similar Brazilian or Swiss products). ML also have Vegemite, a 1kg tub for USD 136. All prices not including import taxes.

Editing to add that the Wikipedia Marmite entry lists a bunch of similar products, even a now-extinct Argentinian one, unfortunately I found none of them on ML.

The Argentinian version of Marmite's name was CONDIBE. Long extinct, to my great sorrow.