The Market

1.10.09 The market. Oh chaotic, musical, dirty land of many unusual smells that is the market. With red meat hanging from the ceiling, raw headless chickens sitting on the counter waiting to be purchased, right next to fresh picked fruits & vegetables, and just across the way you can get a bag of fresh squeezed orange, carrot & green (???) juices. Yes I said bag. They take what resembles a sandwich bag, fill it up with several ladels of your choice of juice, stick a straw in it & tie it up with a rubber band. These are what I like to call ghetto juice bags...ghetto but delicious! After juice we wander over to the little pastry shop where you can get fresh baked goods like chocolate donuts, sweet breads & pastries with a cream cheese filling. But you have to get there early cause they sell out quick. At the market you can pretty much find any piece of junk you are looking for from plastic kitchenware to used shoes to exotic starfruit. My least favorite part is all the stinky raw meat just hanging out waiting for salmonella to take in. You will not catch me buying meat from the market. Or probably not at all here in Mexico. I just don't trust it. They have a store called Bodega Aurrera which is basically WalMart in espagnol as they sell Great Value everything, this is where, if I was going to, I would buy products of a meaty nature. And they sell a huge stack of corn tortillas for 5 pesos which is pennies in USD & these fantastic little hoagie type rolls called BOLILLOS for 1 peso each. That's a STEAL!!! However, I did see their egg section which is on a non-refrigerated shelf. I'm not sure that's safe at all! But we have eaten them & I've yet to get sick . Knock on wood.