Why oh why did I not take any pictures?? This place is raw, old-school, an assault on one's senses…read moreand sensibilities. Come late enough and you'll be treading on streams of bloody water, come early enough and you might get knocked over by the herd of elderly ladies waiting for the slot machines to open up. Large sacks of fragrant spices, ceramics sold by stooped old ladies, clothes, toys, boots, bootlegs, and cow heads with flies swarming around them, skinless, with the eyes intact. Beautiful, ripe fruit, and juice stands, butchers and taco joints. What's not to love about this place?
Although there are now supermarket type places here now, a lot of people still prefer to do most of their shopping at the mercado, because you won't find fresher meats or produce at the Soriana a few miles away, and the prices are fair. For traditional goods and wares, plus staple Mexican foods that are prepared and ready to eat, the mercado is the place to get them. You'll also find tools, jewelry, toys, knick-knacks, and clothes, but these are truthfully better bought elsewhere for people who can afford it; what you will not find is higher end items, or rarer types of meat or produce. You want wine? arugula? brownies? exotic Asian fruits or frozen foods?? Well you won't find them here. This is your working-class, people-struggling-to-make-ends-meet kind of place, where you can find basically everything you need to get by.
