Sancti Spíritus/In a country where seven out of ten people do not have for three daily mealsany option is good if the bite is cheap. This is the case with the hamburgers sold in some stores in the center of Sancti Spíritus, at 100 pesos each (25 cents to informal change). Coal cooked, for the long blackouts suffered by the province, they load with another problem derived from the lack of electricity: they cannot be preserved well.
The kind attention of the employees, so different from the one that is usually found in state businesses, does not compensate for the generalized complaint of customers when trying the meat: it is spoiled. “Look, this hamburger is rotten,” a woman who had just bought one for her son claimed on Saturday. “Oh, I have to tell the chef,” said the clerk with diligence, but without offering him the return or change of food.
“Oh, I have to tell the chef,” said the clerk with diligence, but without offering him the return or change of food
Two days later, 14ymedio He found that hamburgers continued to sell, this time with more salt and strong spices. Buyers spit the first bite, disgusted.
The bad reputation of both establishments is running. This Tuesday, two men went ahead and one of them proposed to the other try the snack. “Are you crazy, boy? That’s bad, I don’t buy that.” Asked about it a few steps later, he regretted: “It has very little exit, but they continue to sell it and there is always someone poor and screwed to eat it, because you can see the missing holes in the tray.”
The businesses that trade with fresh products are the ones that suffer the most the prolonged electric cuts to which the country is subjected. In the case of Sancti Spíritus, they have the “luck” of having an average of six hours of light daily: three in the morning and three at night. The rest is darkness and minced.
