That doesn’t change that the prices for the people outside of the middle to upscale neighborhoods have skyrocketed as well. The exceptions are the few basic items that the government keeps price controls on. We have family and friends who live in some of those areas and they’re reduced to subsistence living much of the time now – often living on little more than rice, potatoes, pasta and some scraps of the cheapest quality meat. I think you also far underestimate the numbers of people who live in the middle to upscale neighborhoods. If one accepts the government figures (and I don’t know that one should) that the number of people living in poverty has been reduced to 21% of the population from a high of 54% ten years ago, that would mean that there’s nearly 32 million people in the country (of whom nearly 22 million would, based on the averages, be in Buenos Aires province) who do not live in poverty and on whom this high level inflation has a very direct impact.

Haven’t I done a step-by-step for empanadas at some point? If not, I’ll have to remedy that….