Posted on 05/30/2021 12:51:11 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
I have been there. I have seen this with my own eyes. It is true.
This is so sad.
“finding basic necessities has become an everyday normality”
When was it ever different in Cuba in the last 60 years?!
Harriet Tubman saved 1000 slaves escape the south. Her quote “I couda saved 2000 if they only knew they were slaves. Going out. Gotta get my mask.
Harriet Tubman saved 1000 slaves escape the south. Her quote “I couda saved 2000 if they only knew they were slaves. Going out. Gotta get my mask.
A Cuban? Heck i had a fellow visit from Scotland years ago and I took him to a store and the first thing he said when he entered was...”F**k Sake!”
He walked up n down the isle and stopped in front of the frozen pizza and couldnt believe how many brands there were.
There are a lot of YT videos of people from the UK, etc, going to stores in the US.
Have him do a commercial on alphabet tv and then juxtapose it and show the supposed food deserts the giverment chides us with that supposedly plague the gimme summedteat’s in this country.
Got it made and too stoopid to get sum of it.
We had an Italian relative come visit us in the states some years ago. We had been to his beautiful, well appointed villa outside Rome. He was obviously pretty well off.
When asked what he would like to go see or visit, his immediate response was “Walmart”!
Remember when that lying pos was freaking out in a boat in New Orleans and people were casually waking by in the background. Then think of Pelosi or Zero, and it’s hundreds of times worse.
We were on a cruise of the Black Sea. Two of the ports were in the Ukraine.
The immigration officials that stamped our passports were anxious to bring their families on board because they wanted the food. The average monthly wage back then (1998) was $30.
They had restored a beautiful opera house in Odessa, but could not afford to pay anyone to perform there, so it sat unused.
The conditions in Bulgaria were pretty grim also.
—”sees an American grocery store for the first time...and they have to call an ambulance for him.”
Not just the soviet bloc.
My sister and family lived in Germany and Belgium for many years. The stores were (no more) required by law to be closed at 5 PM weekdays and noon on Saturday.Closed Sunday. Union rules.
If you were in line and the clerk thought you could not be checked out by closing time, they told you to go home!
A german friend flew to the US and took a cab to Walmart and uses a PAYPHONE to call home and tell his friends it is after hours and he can buy anything he wants!!!
He’d have felt right at home in our one and only grocery store here. Lots of empty shelves even before covid. People begging or stealing the milk from your cart. Haven’t seen pork ‘n beans or fresh cauliflower for decades. Had to make something very akin (I’d guess) to a drug deal to get “the guy in the back” to give me some frozen fish. Another time, they didn’t have tortillas but said the truck will bring one in the next day (the usual excuse). I knew to verify exactly what “one” meant be it one case or one 8 count package. Of course, it was one 8 count package. This from HEB and commuting rage from Austin.
Union rules...pfft. (That was a spitting sound)
It is understandable, but it does sadden me that so many of us take this utter bounty for granted.
Infuriatingly, the people who most take it for granted and are immersed in the bounty support people and actions that will degrade and destroy the bounty.
It makes no sense to me, but that there is Leftism in a nutshell.
One of the You Tubers I like is a pretty Irish girl that comes to the states and “does things”. Texas tailgating, staying on a boat in Florida, tour up the Pacific Coast Highway in Cal, that kind of thing.
She was a bit overwhelmed by a visit to a Walmart superstore, and had a small breakdown in the rental car after having to leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYtAk0rFEo
10 minutes or so in.
Would blow their mind more to know that every inch of shelf space is spoken for and if a product is ever discontinued there are several others in line to replace it.
I’m not sure what the fascination with Aldis is. If I wanted to impress somone with a grocery store I would go to the newest Publix or Harris Teeter in the area..
If I had a magic wand I’d arrange for every American kid between the age of 10 and 20 to spend a week with an ordinary Cuban family, and every Cuban kid to spend a week with an American family.
And then we’d do the same with North Korea, Venezuela, etc.
“Traumatic???”
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On several levels it could be traumatic?
Take yourself off the grid for about 5 years if you care to try it. Completely off, where someone actually brings you an extremely limited amount of food/products....no variety of any type, never giving you even exactly the bare minimum... and you cannot ask for more or you could get even LESS than they deigned you qualified to have.....
Then walk into a supermarket.
My sister in law from Hong Kong went nuts in an ice cream aisle of a Randall’s in Austin.
She could not believe the choice and HK has good grocery stores.
We had two visiting teachers from Belarus back in the late 90’s visit our school. Took them both to an Acme supermarket. They both began to cry. When we went to the local mall, they asked to leave after about an hour. They said there were too many choices.
We lived in a small town about ten miles from the Air Force Base because there was no base housing for families built yet. I lived there from 3rd grade to 6th grade. We had to shop in the local open air market because the commissary was not opened yet and we had no refrigerator in our home.
It was like a farmers' market with booths with fresh produce and meats displayed out in the open without any cooling. There were flies and bugs on the food. We had to wash all of our food in the sink with some water and clorox to kill any bacteria.
As a kid, I didn't know any different and my parents looked at it as a character building experience on how the rest of the world lived. I found it one of the best experiences of my life.
When my dad's tour was up, we returned to the states and landed in New Jersey. We picked up our car, which had already been shipped ahead of us arriving. My folks bought a 19 foot travel trailer to pull cross country to our next home in Cheyenne, WY.
Imagine the shock I experienced when we went to a local supermarket to stock the trailer with food and supplies. My reaction was one of amazement much like the Cuban man in this video. I could not believe all of the colors and fresh food available in such a clean environment as the grocery story. After living in Spain for 3 years and buying our food daily from the open air market outside, I could not believe how nice the stores were and the multitude of variety we had to choose from.
From that day on, I learned to appreciate what we had in the United States and how lucky I was to be born here. My experience overseas in Spain (and other parts of Europe because we traveled while there) was and eye-opener and taught me how good we had it in the states.
I have never forgotten that experience living in Spain and the blessings we live with here as Americans. In my mid-70's, I still remember the experience vividly.
It makes me so angry when I hear these anti-American, capitalist-hating liberals who think there is a better life with Marxism and socialism/communism. I can tell you first hand, there is not. We have it as good as it gets in the world right here in America.
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