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Think that the embargo reference was just a joke? I see grocery stores with probably more than a third of its fruit section, which is not that big anyway, being dedicated to apples. I saw similar thing happen in Iraq during the economic embargo when people started substituting  other things with dates. Here apparently those running these stores are interested more in showing their american identity than what their business is supposed to be about. 

      

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Some people here call rice boring. But apparently people are contend with the fruit markets they see. These fruit markets make you wonder who is imposing the economic embargo on this country?

By the way, why fruit are so costly here? Is it the lack of rain and water? To cut open an onion and find it had gone bad because of water, never occurred to me as something that could happen back where I came from.