To market, to market!

Live poultry for sale. There were also puppies and kittens, but I didn´t want to look. I miss Ella too much!

Look next to the corn... that´s the corn smut I talked about. We ate it unknowingly. It´s a specialty here in Puebla.

These are individual bags of lard, as opposed to the tub in my previous post.

Lots of fish and seafood here. Not so much ice.

We saw bags and bags of beautiful seeds and nuts, and chilis.

Avocados, natch.

These are nopal cactus leaves. They are used in soups, salads and grilled with stuff on top.

These are limes or green lemons, as they say here.

A proud purveyor of pig parts.

This pig isn´t dead. He´s only sleeping.

Last weekend we went to Hidalgo Market, a huge market quite a distance from where I live. They sell pretty much anything you want there. These pictures show a bit of what was on offer. There were also clothes, kitchen utensils and dishes, candy, lots of flowers, etc. It was quite a festival of sights, sound and, of course, SMELLS! Most mid- to upper- class Mexicans don't go to the market. They send their maids.

Tons of pretty flowers for every occasion.

Chickens were everywhere. Refrigerators were not. They sell every part.