Aruba Beef

Facts about beef in Aruba

• Aruba’s number one snack is the pastechi – a small pastry filled with cheese and beef.
• In the traditional menu maize dishes (funchi – pan bati) goat meat fish and stoba stewpots of local vegetables (peas and beans) dominate. Nowadays rice chicken beef and fish are eaten most.
• Beef ‘s domestic supply is insufficient to cover consumers demand
• Beef is imported from South America. Consumers are used to buying beef in most supermarkets with all the different cuts available and a price that is pretty reasonable especially for the better cuts like Tenderloin and T-Bone.
• The elite of the Island are the regular consumers of beef and other meat products. Those of low income are dependent on small scale agriculture and fishing within the region. Thus they’re consumption of meat is limited.