Halboo
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Banned fruits and veggies
Aren't there some fuits and veggies we're not supposed to take INTO Baja?? I've seen this discussed but can't find it.
Thanks.
Halboo
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Bajagypsy
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I may be wrong, but I thought you couldn't cross borders with fruit and veggies?
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longlegsinlapaz
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I've never had any fruit/veg/meat in the refrigerator of the RV or ice chest if I'm traveling via car, banned at the border, but I know that the
checkpoints specifically ask if I'm carrying citrus fruits....which I never am, because they always ask about those! Don't know the "official
legalities"!
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Cypress
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Let me get this staight? You can't take your own veggies south of the
border. Question? What veggies would you want to take that aren't available?
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BajaWarrior
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There is no restriction going into Baja with fruits and veggies, only coming north and only checked by the Border Patrol Agricultural Personnel.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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BajaWarrior
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Or let me put it another way, I have had my coolers checked at the border, I assumed it was for beer, and fruit and veggies were in plain site and
never had a problem in 30 years of going south.
Now, heading north, yes, sometimes apples, sometimes oranges, but had bananas taken away before too.
The agricultural guys don't like it when you start eating the "forbidden" fruit while waiting for them, they got all bummed out at us for chowing down
some Braeburn apples before they got to our vehicle. Hey, they're expensive, and delicious.
So, don't really know if there are official fruit restrictions for entering Mexico.
I never stop to shop in Baja but Beer and maybe a jumbo amount of limes, only because of time restraints.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Halboo
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I just don't want to leave a bunch of stuff home that'll be way icky by the time I get back. Savvy?
Halboo
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Don Alley
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There have been restrictions on taking fruit into California from Mexico and surrounding states for as long as I can remember. In recent years,
however, they have stopped checking most private vehicles. The once mandatory stop on I-5 from Oregon, for example, no longer requires a stop for
cars.
I remember over 30 years ago at the Arizona-California border being told we could not take oranges across the border. But they said we could get out
of the car and hang out there and eat all we wanted.
Going to Baja, they do ask for fruit at the Baja Sur border; in fact, they often ask to look inside coolers.
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
What veggies would you want to take that aren't available?
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Quality produce? 
The list is endless. There is great variety of quality produce grown in Mexico. Unfortunately, most all of it is shipped to the States. What stays
here is either very expensive or near rotten.
I only have knowledge of Baja Norte. BS may be a different situation.
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Timbercrete
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Can't take veggies into Mexico. Traveling with a compadre that got into trouble with tomatoes and cucumbers. They wanted to fine him but we talked
them out of it, as the fellow was an older guy that just didn't know. Also my daughter got her grapes taken from her at the Cabo airport. She was
traveling with me and she was 6 or 7 years old and didn't understand why she couldn't keep her snack.
\"He, who farts in church,
Must sit in own pew\"
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Don Alley
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I had some stuff confiscated at the Zihuatenejo airport. Buffalo jerky from Montana. A whole pound of it. 
Oh well. At least I wasn't arrested for trafficing in buffalo meat.
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