Revelation 27.11.02
Buenos Aires has great grocery stores – big, well-organized, well-stocked, and inexpensive. Like suburban American grocery stores, but with more fresh pasta. Our favorite market, Coto, is like an Argentine Walmart with food. The first one we visited had two levels, the top one offering everything from stereos to underwear and the bottom one filled with groceries.
How can this massive supermarket not have peanut butter?
I search anew each visit, but always without success. Coto teases you with shelves full of dulce de leche ("sweet of milk"), a chocolate/caramel butter that closely resembles peanut butter in color and container (below)…
…But nary a Jif will you find. To get any peanut butter, you have to go to Chinatown (and they only have Skippy).
Peanut butter is a proud member of the “things we miss” list, which remains quite short (we tried to get to 10, but couldn’t):
How can this massive supermarket not have peanut butter?
I search anew each visit, but always without success. Coto teases you with shelves full of dulce de leche ("sweet of milk"), a chocolate/caramel butter that closely resembles peanut butter in color and container (below)…
…But nary a Jif will you find. To get any peanut butter, you have to go to Chinatown (and they only have Skippy).
Peanut butter is a proud member of the “things we miss” list, which remains quite short (we tried to get to 10, but couldn’t):
1. Peanut butter
2. Stop signs
3. Wide, scat-free sidewalks
4. Milk that doesn’t advertise bacteria counts
5. Pedestrian right-of-way
6. Dinner at a reasonable hour
7. Breakfast food: pancakes, toaster, etc
8. Free local calls
