- All these your shop spices - fuuu, here I am from an Uzbek in the market, there are spices!
- Oh, you can't buy good spices in Russia, you have to bring everything from abroad!
- What is there in your markets, just dust, you have to take it from the store, but expensive!
Such comments no, no, and they slip under my publications. True, they coexist with others, in which they swear that white pepper) mentioned only a couple of him times) - expensive, pink - generally for Muscovite snobs, thyme with thyme - the intrigues of the enemies of the Russian kitchens ...
I have already written, but I will say it again: I once did not even think that food was so scandalous. Well, I never thought that discussing food is a way of self-expression (or rather, expressing one's bad character and mood), and also an opportunity to demonstrate that “I am not like others, I am much cooler. "
But back to our rams, or rather, to spices.
Honestly, I buy them without really thinking about where I get them. If in the store - I can take it in the store, if in the market - I can take it in the market.
Yes, a suspiciously cheap product (especially if there is a lot of it for its price) - I will not take it anywhere. Even the most common paprika, which now does not belong to expensive spices. Simply because cheap spices are often cheap, not because the manufacturer (or rather the packer) is such kind, but because how could problems arise with storage, and now, the aroma was added to the aroma of the spice itself mustiness. By the way, paprika, which smells like a wet doormat, is quite an ordinary thing, both in bags from the store and in the market - from a bag.
I also treat spice mixtures calmly, without piety. Even if they are sold by a very elderly and very cunning seller, as if by a portal transferred to us from the Alai market.
I am more than sure - the seasonings that he has and that in the store, packaged in bags, will be the same. The sellers in the markets do not have any “mixtures according to family recipes” - because they are packed with spices... Yes, practically in the same place as the purchasing managers of the factories involved in packing.
That is, from wholesale suppliers. And spices are imported in large wholesale, either to Russia or to another place, from producers of the same ...
So the difference, in fact, in terms of storage and packaging - no more.
What do you think?