I hope you’re right, but I’m in the US, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s only true elsewhere.

I’ve been asking around for a while in order to plan for my holiday cookiing, and got a small amount from another store this morning, but when I asked about getting more another day, they basically said they were doing me a favor and wouldn’t be able to provide more. The reasoning they gave me was that most of the pork they receive now is pretrimmed, but they did say that they could provide lots of beef fat trimmings, if that’s what I wanted. I’m sure that would be close enough (for central American tamales), but I’m already modifying the family recipe a decent amount to work with what I can get locally, so I’m hesitant to make more modifications when I do still have some less convenient options available to acquire the proper ingredients.