Ordering Ingredients/Food Items Online

No ordering online here - too risky. You'd ask for 2 kgs of green peppers and end up with red & green ones. No cilantro, so you'd get parsley instead. Fresh vegetables, however, are easy to find in the multiple farmer's markets and supermarkets around the city.
Ordering from restaurants online, however, is ok. Takes a while longer, but yes, it works because all the delivery guys drive motor bikes.
About 8-9 miles from my house (I live just on the edge of the city) I can find wonderful oriental ingredients, in the Chinese market; all the spices I need at the Syrian spice store; any Lebanese ingredients, thanks to "El Arabito". Meat is always available because Venezuelans are huge meat eaters.
Curiously enough, you can't find real, proper, Mexican corn tortillas; only those tasteless flour tortillas mass-produced by Holsum, or Bimbo - the largest plastic bread producers in the country. Having said that, I found an authentic tortilla producer today on Instagram, so may have to try it out.
 
karadekoolaid said:
No ordering online here - too risky. You'd ask for 2 kgs of green peppers and end up with red & green ones. No cilantro, so you'd get parsley instead. Fresh vegetables, however, are easy to find in the multiple farmer's markets and supermarkets around the city.
Ordering from restaurants online, however, is ok. Takes a while longer, but yes, it works because all the delivery guys drive motor bikes.
About 8-9 miles from my house (I live just on the edge of the city) I can find wonderful oriental ingredients, in the Chinese market; all the spices I need at the Syrian spice store; any Lebanese ingredients, thanks to "El Arabito". Meat is always available because Venezuelans are huge meat eaters.
Curiously enough, you can't find real, proper, Mexican corn tortillas; only those tasteless flour tortillas mass-produced by Holsum, or Bimbo - the largest plastic bread producers in the country. Having said that, I found an authentic tortilla producer today on Instagram, so may have to try it out.
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I recall at Gardenia grocery, a Mexican store, in 'Vegas they made the tortillas in house and you could go by there and they'd give you a few right off the grill to munch while shopping. I never went in there without a bottle of sauce...
 
Z-Cook said:
Same prob here, only we have to drive 50 -100 miles even get to a regular supermarket so I often stockpile when shopping and order a lot online.

Asian and European ingredients are particularly hard to find where we are.
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Our local regular supermarkets are about 25-30 miles away, but DO NOT carry any of the "good stuff".
I bulk shop and have THREE freezers.
 
Morning Glory said:
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1996 I was in my early 40's, with young kids and working full time. In that year, Tesco's launched the first supermarket Internet delivery service in the UK. I was one of their first customers. I was over the moon! Never looked back.
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Wow, we didn’t get our first online grocery delivery service until 2000.
And that was from ‘Iceland’ the frozen food shop.
I tried it once, less said the better. It was quite a while before any other supermarket offered home delivery round here.
 
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