Produce stand

When the average Cuban awakens in the morning, there are three problems to be faced . These are breakfast, lunch, and supper. There is definitley no epidemic of obesity on the island. This photo is of a produce stand, a government owned and run business that has something different each day over the week. People queue up there each day until it is sold out. Early each morning a truck comes from who knows where and unloads its cargo. The sound of this attracts the people in the neighborhood who roll out to get their daily ration of mangoes, potatos, yucca, grain or whatever is there that day. There is rarely enought to go around, so being there early is a good move. The tourist hotels and restaurants get the better quality food and have enough to provide excellent meals for their guests. At the house where I stay, the propietor leaves in the morning and returns several hours later with several sacks full of food. I don't ask whwere it comes from. It is good.