Produce here is just so amazing. Corn, spinach, fruit, you name it. Everything is so much richer, and you can buy a lot of produce at these tiny vendors on the corner. The nectarines are so juicy, the corn is so sweet. Milk comes in a box and is thicker and sweet. It´s crazy. Avocados deserve their own post. They are so flavorful and everything comes with a side of avocado.
Beer and wine here is also quite good.
The Chilean government is crazy about what comes into the country! They won´t allow you to bring in eggs, dried fruit, milk. No food from outside Chile can cross these borders, and you can see why. Produce is a huge industry here.
There are some fruits I´ve never really had in LA. Like lucuma. What´s lucuma? It looks like an avocado from the outside, but inside it´s soft orange fruit. And cherimoya here is also big. A lot of cherimoya flavored things: juices, ice cream, things like that.
A lot of the products in the supermarkets here will take some getting used to, and Aneya and I both have gotten sick from the water. We´re all about the bottles now.
The produce though, I can get used to.
-Lauren
Photo of lucuma from Peru Ecological.
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