Trip to the Supermarket

Convenient for me, there's a big supermarket one block away. The markets are far more "exotic" and cheap, and they lend themselves to beautiful photos of piles of fresh fruit and veggies basking in flickering sunlight, so I'll save the scenic shots for those. The supermarket is pretty American, but not with the overwhelming selection. Anyways, here's a few Bolivian things I encountered:

No better idea than pre-peeled garlic!
Especially at $8/kg, or $0.50 for this bag

Salt! The color rose salt is from the iron content.
The white is straight from the Bolivian Salt Flats!

A 2L bottle of rum&coke has never looked
so good. Gotta drink it before it goes flat!

Cheese!  Never heard of criollo, but its fresh, cheap, and pretty salty

Splenda sold by the plastic bagful.
Not sure that's legal?

What about that super food Whole Foods sells? Quinoa! I know it's somewhere in this store, but after looking for it during two different trips I give up. Why so hard to find, and expensive? The globalization of crops sometimes doesn't help countries like Bolivia. Malnutrition in children has increased in the quinoa growing regions, likely because its mostly exported now... food for thought (NYTimes article).