“My lunch attempt ended up in the garbage,” reproached Sergio, a neighbor of El Vedado, after walking through several state establishments looking for something to eat at noon this Thursday while doing some Christmas Eve shopping.
Upon arriving at the Casa del Pan con Perro, located at 23 and 16, belonging to the Gastronomy and Commerce company of the capital, the young man was surprised to see that there was only one table occupied, but decided to try his luck with the star dish of the house: the bread with sausage.
For the “modest” price of 16 pesos, the product was light years away from what was issued in that store the last time it was there, a decade ago. “The only thing that tasted good was the mustard. Stale and old bread, and the earth-flavored sausage, that’s why no one comes in here to eat anything! “, he tells 14ymedio.
When asked about the quality of the sausage to a shop assistant, who also worked as a processor and was the only worker at that time in the state facility, the woman replied: “They are coming like this, I know they are not very good and that’s why I I take the trouble to pass them through a pan and brown them a bit, but it’s not even that. I’m so sorry. “
About 11 years ago the establishment was inaugurated in the Havana neighborhood. In the first months, the service was very well received by many customers who came to the place and waited even hours to access the facility, some former fans recall.
“The quality of the bread and the sausage was very good, on all the tables there was ketchup and original mustard so that each one could put it to taste,” Alfredo, a resident of the municipality of Playa who attended the opening at that time, told this newspaper. moment. Even popular speech was added the phrase “we are going to give ourselves a bitch“to invite another to eat the combination.
“That day I ate three breads, they were really very tasty, on top of that each dish was accompanied by a small garnish of snacks ham, Pellys or French fry chips, “he explained. In addition to bread, the offer in the early years included the popular and defunct can of TuKola soda, which” was sold cold and for only 10 pesos, “he recalls.
But this Thursday “there was nothing to drink,” laments Sergio. “The other thing they sold was croquette at 2 pesos and hambergue to the plate in 5 “(a mass halfway between the Cuban frit and the conventional hamburger).” You have to shoot up this dry. “
Despite the decay of the place, something Sergio observed caused him even greater indignation. From the sidewalk you can see the windows full of posters alluding to the triumph of the Revolution, as a celebration of that date. The word that was repeated the most was: “Victoria.”
“A lot of political propaganda announcing 63 victories and all that, but what I see here is more of a defeat,” said the frustrated client.
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