Back in dem days you could probably get good stuff if you had money and could afford to go to posh and expensive hotels (or you were foreign and had a good exchange rate.) Or if you had the right credentials and paperwork to get into the special shops for the elite. However that sort of thing was out of reach of my guys, technically they were not "poor" - coming from professional architectural families, but I saw for myself, you'd go into a shop, and see nothing but empty shelves and half empty tables strewn with bric-a-brac. Ordinary folk couldn't buy good food, because it wasn't there to buy.
By contrast, in Ethiopia the posh expensive hotels were where I had the worst, most inedible food, while the cheap places used by locals had the tasty stuff. There was abundance in Ethiopia, though not the infrastructure for a vast variety of ingredients.
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By contrast, in Ethiopia the posh expensive hotels were where I had the worst, most inedible food, while the cheap places used by locals had the tasty stuff. There was abundance in Ethiopia, though not the infrastructure for a vast variety of ingredients.