S1E7: Special Guest Fawn Pt. 2!!!!

The Phoenix Rose Show

Summary

This is an edited transcript of a podcast where the host and their guest talk about the guest's trip to Guatemala. They discuss the culture, food, transportation, and customs in Guatemala, as well as their own personal experiences. They also touch on the importance of being open-minded and respectful while traveling, as well as the rules and regulations for bringing items into the country. Overall, it was a fun and informative conversation about the guest's trip and the beauty of traveling. In this continuation of last week's episode, Fawn and Phoenix are discussing more things from Fawn's trip, such as pharmacies, food options, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Fawn was pleasantly surprised by the variety and availability of fresh produce in Guatemala, as well as the lower cost of items like eggs. She also noticed that pharmacies in Guatemala are much smaller and have fewer options compared to the US. Overall, she found it refreshing to have simpler and healthier food choices while traveling.

Transcription

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We’re I think as Americans so used to having so many more options.

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Speaker 1

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Welcome back. I'm Phoenix Rose, and today we are back with Fawn, continuing our conversation from last week. Today we're discussing things from her trip like pharmacies, food, eggs, fruit, bringing food into the country. Without further ado, let's get back into that conversation.

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Now, when you were down there, you guys didn't have to go to a hospital or doctor or a dentist or anything, right?

Speaker 1

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Correct. Okay. Luckily, yeah. Thank goodness. Although

Speaker 2

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I did kind of want we did walk by the pharmacy and they're like completely open and just all the stuff is sitting there and like, nobody's really watching anything in that kind of threw me off. Well,

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except for the armed guards with the shotguns across their

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chests. You know, there wasn't anybody in the one that I saw. Really? We I did see another one that had, like, guards on the outside, but the one threw me for a loop because there was like, nobody. But you can see there was still stuff in it. I almost wonder if it just wasn't anything of value and they were moving everything to a different pharmacy maybe. I don't

Speaker 1

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know. Their pharmacies are definitely different. Usually they are very, very small. And like here I think of a pharmacy and I think of a chain pharmacy that has not only medications but also snacks. And yeah, like school supplies in great different foods and drinks and. Right, I mean all kinds of things. But there are the pharmacies are usually small and they just have a small assortment of medicines and baby formula, um, some health and beauty aids, usually a little bit of bug spray kind of things, but they're tiny, tiny little places. And usually you don't really go into them. It's just

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you walk up.

Speaker 1

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Yeah. You walk up and or if you do go into it, it's just like one big counter behind or one huge shelf behind the counter with all the supplies that you don't wander around the pharmacy and go shopping. You just tell the person at the counter what you need and they go get

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1. Yeah, the one that was on the corner that I saw that nobody was there was literally just like a wall in a counter with like the open window that you walk up to. There was no way to get in. Yeah. Mhm. I'm like how the does that work. You

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just walk up there and tell them what you need and if they have it they'll pull it for you. You pay for it and walk away. If they don't have it, sometimes they can tell you who might have it. But they don't have the variety. Like here we can go to our local drugstore. And if you're looking for acetaminophen, there are eight different brands, right? And if you are looking for Tylenol there's this dosage to this many you can get

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you can get different quantities. You can get ten of them 20, 30, 200, 500 a thousand. You can get am pm children's um arthritis like there's so many right. You can get liquid pills, gel caps. They're they might have two boxes of acetaminophen. You can get five of them or ten of them in the package. They just they don't have they they don't have the variety where I think as Americans so used to having so many more options and we get honestly, we get kind of frustrated when you don't have options, you don't have the variety. We're so used to having so many more options and we get honestly, we get kind of frustrated when we don't have options like, well,

Speaker 1

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yeah, that's great that there's one available, but it's not really the one that I wanted. And they're like, well, this is what we have. Sometimes like, I feel like we have too many options though. If I have a choice of 3 or 4, I'm happy. If I've got a choice of 20. I could spend an hour trying to figure out which one is the best deal for my money. I absolutely want

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four choices. I don't want 20. But

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in that case, shopping in Guatemala is would be much easier for you there. There aren't as many choices for for anything really, but especially with medications and things.

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I do think they have a way better selection as far as fresh fruits. Oh, absolutely. Better food choices down there because I have a lot of food restriction. You know this. Mhm. We didn't go to a single place that I didn't have options.

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Now does that happen frequently where you live in the States.

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No really I had more options when we were down there than I do being at home. Unless I'm going to the store singling out the ingredients and cooking at home. But as far as restaurants are going out, I didn't struggle at all. Any place we went down there to find options.

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Please think they had anything to do with things being fresher or less processed,

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or

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just fresher foods available? Do you know?

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Do

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you have any theories about what might have made it easier for you to find those foods?

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Well, the fruit was way more available. It was everywhere. Mhm. They make fresh homemade corn tortillas everywhere you look. They've got eggs everywhere in there. Super cheap. Absolutely. Everybody had chicken like rice. You couldn't blink without seeing rice but like so maybe it's just what they have available. Maybe I just got lucky. Well. Everywhere we went, there was options. Not just, oh, we have rice and we have all of these other things that are full of gluten and processed foods and things of that nature. But down there they don't do all that. So I guess it could be a lot of the processed foods and stuff which they pull out of the equation because it's just bags of rice, fresh eggs, fresh homemade tortillas, lots of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, like everything is just. And it's not bad either. Like it's super good. Things like very flavorful. I mean, I don't know, I was just flabbergasted. I just, I thought I was going to have a really hard time finding anything down there, and I found everything. And the one thing my husband says every time I have to go to the store to buy fruit, and it takes me an hour to pick out fruit that looks good to buy and bring home, and we pay outrageous prices for it. Here goes. We need to go back to Guatemala just for the fruit.

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Oh, I know, and it cracks me up when they're when you order a seasonal fruit plate. And we're used to being in the north where seasonal fruit you have, you know, three options because we have the snow and the winter. And

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of course

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just there isn't as much fruit available. And if it is available, like you just pointed out, it costs so much money. But they're they're like, oh, well, our seasonal fruit options right now are

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watermelon, pineapple, papaya, mango. We have grapes. We have strawberry. Like we have 20 different fruits right now that are in season. I'm so sorry that these other two fruits are not in season. You're like, okay, um,

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well, you can bring me any of those 20 things that you just mentioned. I like them all. And holy smokes, you have all of those and they're cheap. Mhm.

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Um, now cheap to us

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for what we would pay here. Right. Like there's so much to eat, even eggs to like we had that it was crazy prices with eggs just going nuts and. We had food costs skyrocketing in Guatemala too, but eggs went up just a teeny tiny bit in Guatemala. There wasn't the same the same rate of inflation on foods like eggs.

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I can't remember what the eggs were when we were down there, but I feel like it was ridiculous. Like $0.05 an egg. It sends an egg or something,

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right? Because so many people have chickens and eggs and there's no kind of supply and demand issues. There are so many chickens and so many eggs. Yeah, I think it was. Everybody on your street has chickens and

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eggs, $0.05 an egg or something. When we were there and I was just floored, I was like, wait, what? I think I have the eggs for a dollar, right? Like, okay, well, I don't need that money, but I'll take ten.

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Right. It is cool though. You can go,

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um,

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you can go and just whatever morning you're like, okay, I'm going to have three eggs for breakfast. I'm just going to go buy three eggs. So that is kind of different

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because it's not like nothing is processed. You don't have preservatives in the bread. They haven't, you know, done all kinds of things to the eggs. They just went and took the eggs from the chickens. The bread doesn't last as long. I don't know what they do to eggs in stores or in farms to make them less longer. But.

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Just you have to use the food so much faster.

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I know what the eggs. If you don't wash them. They last longer because you're not taking that protective membrane off the egg itself. So I think that's how, like, I thought it was weird growing up that, uh, the Hispanic kids that I knew, their families had eggs on the counter, like, they're they're rotten. I don't want those. And, no, they're not rotten. They're just not washed. Or they and they've never been cold, so they don't have to be cold and they will last 30 days. Mhm. Just sitting on the counter. I was floored when I figured that out. So yeah down there they can keep them that way for a long periods of time to sell them out. But it's just weird how readily available everything was. Mhm.

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Some things.

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Okay. The food was for

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1. Yeah. That was, that was that wasn't really as

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readily available. And I was floored But yeah even with the fruit like you go to a restaurant and they've got a fruit bar for breakfast. Mhm. And it's like there was they cooked the fruits in ways that I'd never even thought of with different seasonings and different flavors. And I'm like. That is awesome.

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Oh, I could do that at home,

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but I've got so much more to do it. You know, they cheaper to get out of plane and fly down there for breakfast.

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But you can't bring fruit back

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here. I know that is. I don't like that fruit.

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And what else? If we had meats, fruits and meats? Yeah. They're really

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smart about actually. Yes. Yeah. I can't travel with pork. Not

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even if you just bought a sandwich at subway. At the airport. You cannot bring it into the country.

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Oh,

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they don't tell you that, but.

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Yes. Yeah. I think, uh, the places in the airport should have signs up saying what's allowed to be taken with you. You know, a lot

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of people have mentioned that,

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but, um.

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Yeah. Well, you're supposed to know, apparently on your customs forms, if you read everything it says, like you can't bring in.

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Bugs. Food's

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dirt.

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Meat.

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Like you, whenever you sign something, when you sign your customs forms, your declaration forms, you're saying

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that you're not bringing any of those things in. So they're like, well, you said you signed this form. So you said you do not have fruits, vegetables, dirt, meats, any of that. So people are like, well, how did I know? And the customs people are always like, well,

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you're supposed to read this thing before you signed it, so that's how you're supposed to know.

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Yeah, but Americans have this and we have another sign and stuff before they read it,

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you know, and it isn't just us.

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Um, I was watching. I don't even know where we were, and but I caught part of this show. There are people coming into Australia from somewhere, and they had been given apples on the flight and people were getting fined. We was New Zealand, was Australia, New Zealand, they were getting fined for bringing apples Each person had one apple that they'd gotten on the flight, and they were every single one of them that still had their apple was getting fined for bringing that Apple in. And the guys were like, I'm sorry.

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You agreed by signing your customs thing

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that so it was done on purpose? No,

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but people were acting like it was.

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Well, I will that's where my thought would go that it was done on purpose by the people on the plane. So that way the people could be fined in the country, would get money. Yeah. I don't I didn't catch the whole story, but like I do, I really just can't imagine that there's a flight or flight attendants or food service going around like, hahaha, let me give everyone apples.

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So this is my evil plan to take over the world. I'm going to do it by one apple at a time.

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Doctor Doofenshmirtz right, but no, I where they had. I don't know how much the fines were, but they were like just enough to be annoying. And people were like, you're kidding me. Are you freaking this? Like, I was just going to go on my record? Like, am I going to be a. It's like, no, you just have to sign here that you.

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You have to sign here that you tried to bring an apple into our country, and you have to pay a small fine, or you can fight it in court,

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or I can eat the apple, and it never existed.

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I mean, that seems like

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you can get rid of the evidence that way. But I was like, okay, first of all, what is the name of this TV show? How do they make a show out of people, out of an entire flight, bringing apples into a country?

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Like, I really need to know that. But, you know, we've gotten stopped

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and

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they'll ask you questions at customs when you're coming through. And like, do you have any food? Do you have any food with you?

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Um, well,

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I have a granola bar. I have two pieces of gum. I have, um, a cough drop. Like, how specific do you need me to get? But then if you don't see anything,

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that's a big problem. And you're

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like, well, you said you didn't have any food. Well, I didn't know I needed to declare my granola

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bar in a cough drawer

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or the sandwich mints. Right. The sandwich that I ate half of from the other airport. So sometimes you're just like, well, I didn't know how specific I had to be. I don't know what you need to know about, but if you actually read the forms before you sign them.

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Nobody does. Yeah.

Speaker 1

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And by the way, who brings bags of dirt into another country with them?

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I cannot think of a reason why you would need to bring a pack of dirt,

Speaker 1

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but you are not allowed to do that.

Speaker 2

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Maybe if they're taking it from one country back to their country, because it's a richer soil and they're trying to grow something. I mean, I don't know, other than that.

Speaker 1

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Yeah. I cannot think of a reason, but

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we're not there. Great.

Speaker 1

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I thought of like, I don't know if they still do it, but you could buy those little sand art souvenirs till they put different colors of sand into, like, a glass jar. Like, I wonder if that

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counts, but that seems like a little bit silly because it's just sealed. When it's sealed. I don't think that would be dirt, but I can't think of a reason why someone would bring a bag of dirt.

Speaker 1

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Earlier we were talking about a show with the flight of

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apples. So the name of that show. I looked it up. Depending on where you are, it's either called Border Security Australia's Frontline, or it's also called Nothing to Declare. And that is an ongoing show. And it isn't just about flights of people with apples. They do. They show all kinds of things with border security. So.

Speaker 1

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Now we know. Well, this has been so fun chatting with you about that trip to Guatemala,

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but we got sidetracked from.

Speaker 1

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No, that was. You know what? We definitely. I need to get you back down there again. Like, I wish you could be down there all the time. I know you have so many things at home that you still need to be taking care of, though, so I can't keep you to myself all the time.

Speaker 2

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Oh, no. We didn't even talk about a club that I got to go see. Or like other things, you

Speaker 1

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know, there's so many things I feel like we could have, like, 20 different conversations about that trip.

Speaker 2

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But yeah, that definitely was a good experience and something that I, I need to go back because like I said, you can't just go once.

Speaker 1

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No. Absolutely not. Well, thank you so much. We'll have you back again.

Speaker 2

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Absolutely. Thank

Speaker 1

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you so much for being here with me today and with our special guest, Fawn. If you have questions about this episode, life in Guatemala, or life in general, please reach out. Phoenix at the Phoenix Rose show. Com or you can comment or message me from wherever you're listening. Thank you in advance for clicking the like. Follow, subscribe, and for sharing the podcast with a friend. It means so much to me and allows me to keep doing this. Join me next time. It'll be informative, interesting, and probably controversial, so I'm sure you won't want to miss it. Until then, I'm Phoenix Rose. Stay curious and stay safe.

Speaker 2

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And thanks so much. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. You're awesome. Yes, you are