In any other city, food is expensive. Going to Safeway for fruits and veggies means paying $4/lb for bell peppers. But here, at the local Mexican ranch market, you can get a cornucopia of food for so absurdly cheap you'd think you were dreaming. Your eyes do not deceive you:
- The watermelons below are $1.99 each (compared to $6 at your average supermarket)
- The cantaloupe is $0.33/lb
- The raspberries (actually they are bushberries, a hybrid) are TWO CONTAINERS FOR $1. Tell that to Safeway, which sells them for $3-4 per container.
- Fatty artichokes are also 2 for $1.
My dad and I walked out of there with 10 and a half pounds of cucumbers, onions, cabbage, lettuce, lemons, etc etc etc for a grand total of $7.43.
I love this greater metropolitan area.
