Fruity Chile

So I would just like to make a cuisine-oriented comment, as I suppose many of you might expect.

The food here is WAY more awesome than Argentina. More variety and quality. Pretty much the only way I think Argentina can hold a candle is with their grass-raised cattle, but I'm pretty steaked-out at this point and welcome the many changes, which include: salads without corn! quality bread! seafood! turkey! and fruit!

The fruit is particularly exciting, as in Argentina there are pretty much only bananas. Here all the fruit is fresh and delicious and dirt cheap. I bought 5 plums and 4 nectarines for LESS THAN A DOLLAR. It was a pricing miracle.

They are also obsessed with pineapple, which I am not about to argue with (it is in fact so omnipresent that Kelly has 'piña' always on the mind and keep referring to Viña, the town we were in, as Piña...see lower entries). When we found A&W rootbeer in the Jumbo supermarket (and caused a scene), we sought vanilla ice cream so as to introduce the Chileans to rootbeer floats, but all we could find was pineapple ice cream. Literally, rows of it, and it was all that was left. Very odd.

Now we are off to indulge on giant empanadas filled with Antarctic Krill for lunch.