A nice thing about agricultural areas of Nebraska and Iowa is that the grocery stores have the usual timid "ethnic foods" aisle with ramen noodles and the like, but also a separate and well-stocked "EXTREMELY MEXICAN" section, both in the produce and dry goods departments
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Like if you need to find the rare dried pepper that only grows at the bottom of cenotes in the Yucatán, you will find it in the migrant worker section of a Nebraska Hy-Vee
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Err, I said migrant worker but these days it is mostly about people coming to work long-term in places like the meatpacking plants
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There's also a phenomenon where some highly marked-up food in other parts of the store is sold in bulk for almost nothing in the Mexican sector, like you can find a six-pound sack of pumpkin seeds for a dollar, where a tiny vial of them costs $11 in the spice section
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A lot of the American immigrant experience for people stranded in suburbia was figuring out which other cultures cooked with the same ingredients as yours, and what the name was in each language. Often if you could find a Mexican analogue you were home free
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