Ever since then, products appear and disappear from the shelves and we treat the most basic and common products such as milk or black beans like they were gold. We have also quickly forgotten (or at least that’s what we pretend) our exquisite taste that once made us picked one special brand over many others that decorated our big and modern supermarkets or even our corny abastos and bodegas.
It has become a common image to see signs on those places such as “Only two bags per person”, “Only one can per person”. It’s currently happening with rice (three days ago you could only buy two bags of rice at the supermarket located near by home, now there’s no rice left). There’s also a significant scarce of sugar, coffee, black beans, toilet paper and napkins (if something as basic as food is missing, it is ought to expect to see other things disappearing from the shelves as well).
To the drama that comes with the current shortages, the frustration of coming back home without the basic things you need; you must add the fear and uncertainty that fills everyone nerves as soon as the news and/or the rumours of possible future shortages enter our ears. We fear that the products that are rare to find now, might become impossible to find one day, they might disappear forever from our shelves. In our worse expectations we imagine days and months and years passing by missing the smell of the coffee, the taste of the real white sugar, the texture of food cooked using corn oil…Its hard to imagine a life without those products.
Chavez in action.
here in america
ReplyDeletewe need to stock our shelves, now.
rice beans oatmeal sugar coffee baking supplies flour yellow corn tuna fish mayo salmon canned barley salt
grow a small garden and fish for food.
its over folks, get ready, stock the food now before it is too late.
something like 500 pounds of food.
anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI hope not.