Tortillerias in the Yucatan Pueblos of Mexico

 

In the pueblos of Yucatan, there are no supermarkets like you'd find in a larger town or city.  The closest supermarket to me is about 30km away in Oxkutzcab.  

Instead the pueblos have small neighborhood stores called Tiendas that might be 15m2 to 20m2 and they have the basics.  Sort of like a convenience store, except even smaller.  These stores would not have meat, because you get that from the butcher who kills a cow every few days and only sells fresh meat.   They would have eggs, and a few items of produce and bread and lots of sweets.  My pueblo has about 3,000 people and probably 50 tiendas.  It is planned that the tienda is close enough that you can walk to it because every day you go and get what you need that day.

Besides the tiendas, every pueblo will have many tortillerias.  Again, they are located in neighborhoods so you can walk every day and get what you need.   The idea of buying a week's worth of anything is alien to these Maya people.

I go into the pueblo here once or twice a week, to get eggs and tomatoes and potatoes and cold drinks.  I take Logan my dog with me and he stays in the truck and loves to bark at the dogs along they way.

And everytime we go, as we're returning home, we stop at the last tortilleria to get 5 pesos of fresh, hot, tortillas.  (thats about 30 or 35 tortillas for about 25 cents).  Logan eat 2/3 of them and I eat 1/3 while we're driving back to the ranch.

I thought it would be interesting to see how they do it.  More or less, they are making tortillas all day long because the families need them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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