Hound Dog
Aug 13, 2010, 9:26 AM
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Thanks for the lowdown. I've been planning a trip out there this summer or fall. It's been over five years since I've been around Lake Chapala area, since I first came to Mexico looking for a place to settle. This summer we've gone to the beach for a few days, Mexico City for a few with a swing through Queretaro, soon it's on to Chapala ostensibly to visit Superlake.
I've been advised to bring a big wallet or a short shopping list. It should be like a trip to Costco or Sam's, stop in to get a box of Bisquick only and end up spending $3k. It should be fun.
It may have been earlier in this thread I first heard about Johnny Rocket's but was unfamiliar with that chain. I found one in Mexico so we stopped in. Excellent! First time for Tere to try onion rings - those were the highlight of the visit for her. I had no idea the size of those burgers and ordered us each a double and a malt. Could hardly walk when we left. It took two hours of walking around to feel normal again. Great burgers.
Ah, yes, Peter:
Johnny Rockets. Fabulous place. At one time it was reputed that they would open in the new shopping mall on the Ajijic libramiento but perhaps not. When I get over my current bout with amoebas picked up on the slopes of the Tacaná Volcano outside of Tapachula, I´m off to Guadalajara for a vist to Johnny Rockets, the best burgers just about anywhere. Maybe it´s a good thing they may not open in Ajijic. That place is burger heaven.
It´s a shame that there are those uninformed individuals both at Lakeside and living in other parts of Mexico and elsewhere who take potshots at Super Lake - a national treasure for Mexico started and developed over the years by a local who spotted an opportunity to serve the large foreign community and frequent Tapatio visitors at Lakeside and has grown that endeavor into the single best specialty grocer in the country - a store with an inventory of international groceries one would find in few places in the U.S. or Europe as well. I can tell you this, a trip from Michoacan over to Lakeside is well worth your while despite the high prices which are quite reasonable considering prices back in the U.S. and, God help us, France, where prices are obscene. Many of these items are not available for import into Mexico and Pancho brings these items in just for Super Lake. Remember that we spend six months in San Cristóbal de Las Casas and six months in Ajijic. When we head for San Cristóbal our car is filled with numerous items from Super Lake that we cannot find in Chiapas nor, in many instances, anywhere in Mexico except for Super Lake. We have lived in Mexico for over nine years and have maintained a home in Chiapas since 2006. Super Lake is a treasure and no amount of grousing by cheeseparers will hurt Pancho nor reflect negatively upon his accomplishment.
For those of you who do not live in the foreign retirement colony at Lakeside, just be aware that complaining of prices at Super Lake and in various restaurants around town catering to Tapatios and foreigners is a local, unpleasant sport. Do not take these repetitively boring carpers seriously. If you want to see outrageous prices in a major world capital where, even if you are willing to pay, you may have diffculty finding what you need for that exotic dinner you are planning, head for Paris or, for that matter, anywhere in France or Rome or, perhaps, large U.S. cities and you will return here properly chastised and thanking God for your good fortune at living here at Lakeside thanks to Pancho whose service to this community is nonpareil.
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