the trip to the chilean food

Hello, 
this is the link of the article that i choose. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2000/oct/28/weekend.jonathanfranklin?INTCMP=SRCH . it was an article write in october 18, 2000. by a guy call Jonathan Franklin. maybe, he is a journalist, but i don't know. 

In simple words it's about the chilean street food. First he start describeing the tipical food of many people: the 'completo'. And there he makes a funny analogy about the english 'tea time' and our 'once'. For the way en q se expresa, I under stand that he don't like the completo, even he said: 'is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise and more salt are the four basic condiments'.

I don't know why he said that in the past two years Chile was shacked by economic crisis. Here in Chile, the politics in the TV every time say that our economics numbers are great, and that we are in an economic increase progress. But, according the text, the crisis of the past two years is so strong that the street food is more popular now, because is cheap.