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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
When it comes to regionally-grown food, makes me wonder what has been done for fresh bread in Costa Rica to be so comparatively cheaper than the imported one....
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Costa Rica has high import duties. My guess is the bread was made outside the country and imported. Almost all the prepared goods were very expensive.(boxed pasta, jars of pasta sauce, cookies, chips, foreign cheeses, etc) Base ingredients were cheap. We ate a lot of rice, beans, eggs, fruit, and veggies. We both lost a few pounds on the trip.
Say the import tax is 100%. A $2 loaf of bread becomes a $4 loaf. That loaf likely only has a 10 cents worth of bread flower in it. So that 10 cents of flower becomes 20 cents and then you pay for the bakery to turn it into delicious bread.
EDIT: $3 spent at the central market and a typical lunch