a trip to the pulpería

One mainstay of Nicaraguan life is the local pulpería - or a general store. Sometimes it's called 'la venta' - simply 'the store'. Most of them are small, perhaps the front room of someone's house, where you can buy lots of little 'general' things. And they are everywhere. At latest count there are no less than 7 pulperías in a 1-block radius of our house. And so we can conveniently get everything from milk to gum to soda to fresh fruit juice to cooked beans to raw meat (we avoid the meat).
On Tuesday Simon and Alan went to the pulpería on the corner and came home with the following:
- 12 limes
- 6 oranges
- 6 tomatos
- 6 bananas
- 3 medium onions
- 2 lbs. of potatos
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 carrot
- 1 bunch of mint
- 1 cantaloupe
- 1 medium avacado
- 1 tube of medium Colgate toothpaste
Total: $8.50
(photos forthcoming)