Mercadinho de Raminho

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, while scanning cans of feijoada in Mercadinho de Raminho, a delivery driver swears he heard someone whispering ‘feijão preto’ over and over again. No one else seemed to notice. Curious, he followed the voice down an aisle, only to discover it was coming from a bag of black beans—a regular prank by the neighborhood kids. They’d hidden speakers inside, playing that same mysterious whisper over and over.

2. In the early hours of one Saturday morning, a little boy named Pedro followed his family into Mercadinho de Raminho. As he explored the aisles, something peculiar caught his eye—a bag of dried chilies that seemed to move ever so slightly. Curious, Pedro reached out and touched it gently. To his surprise, the chilies twitched like tiny fingers beckoning him closer. His mother laughed when she saw what had captured his attention, explaining that they were just ordinary chilies playing tricks on an imaginative mind.

3. At dawn, as shoppers were just arriving, an old sign above the entrance read: ‘Today’s special: eternal youth for sale inside.’ As the day went on, more and more people flocked in, each hoping to buy that elusive fountain of youth. By midday, a delivery driver commented jokingly, 'I bet they’re running out of groceries faster than usual!' A regular laughed, replying, 'Probably because everyone's too busy chasing eternal youth to notice their shopping list.' In the end, the sign was quietly removed, replaced with one reading simply, 'Fresh produce today—no promises for immortality.'

4. While stocking shelves at Mercadinho de Raminho, a regular noticed something strange: every night at exactly nine o’clock, rows of bananas would mysteriously rearrange themselves into alphabetical order. One day, a delivery driver arrived with a crate labeled ‘bananas.’ He watched in amazement as the bananas on the shelf seemed to recognize their new arrival and immediately sorted themselves back into alphabetical order—except for one banana that stubbornly insisted on staying upside down. The regular laughed and said, ‘Looks like old Raminho’s bananas are still finding ways to surprise us!’