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Drive-By Smoked Chicken – November 2007

No longer content to sell braids of garlic or homemade guava paste and cheeses, guajiros by the early 2000s were taking risks and selling smoked chickens, ducks and even wild fowl for the same flat price of $5 USD each. This bird, smoked over leaves of the guava tree, and sold hanging from a 1950s wire hanger, did not make it back to Havana!