Originally Posted by
Wildthang
I lived in Venezuela from 96 to 99 and there were several things that were hard to get even then. Fresh milk was hard to get, and we would have to go to different stores depending on which meat we were trying to buy. All markets had goat meat, but if you wanted steak or pork, different stores kept that. When the grocery stores would run low on things, they would stock an entire row in the store with Pepsi Cola, or some kind os soda we had never heard of!
Crafts macaroni and cheese could not be found, or sour cream. I paid almost $500 dollars for a small 15" Sony TV because electronics prices were through the roof. But gasoline was 16 cents per gallon...................WTF