Tuesday, June 24th, 2008...10:02 am
Bodega de Semillas
One of the many things I like about living in Mexico is the presence of bodega de semillas (literally warehouse of seeds). Being an old hippie, before I moved to a rural area thirty some years ago I shopped at food co-ops where I could buy grains, flours, oil, dried fruits and other food stuffs in bulk.
I shop at this bodega de semillas which sells all sorts of products in bulk and has a troop of young folks in aprons loading products into plastic bags for the customers. The shop sells all sorts of flours, grains, pulses, herbs and spices, candies, nuts, pastas, TVP, dried fish and shrimp, packing, rolls of plastic and foil wrap, paper and plastic bags, a wide variety of dried chiles in the bags you may see in the photo, and all sorts of other stuff. It’s a riot.
I bake my own bread and eat rolled oats each morning, so when I need to resupply I head on over to the Bodega de Semillas at Sayago and Revolucion. I usually wait by the large plastic garbage can full of flour until one of the attendants takes notice and asks what I need. The attendant rips a couple of plastic bags off one of the rolls hanging at various locations around the store and begins loading the doubled bag with a scoop. Once the attendant believes she has loaded the bag with about the amount I ordered she heads for one of the many scales with a scoop full of product in case she must adjust the amount in the bag, tops off or subtracts from the product in the bag, ties the top of the bag, marks the price on the bag, and asks “algo mas”.
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