It is a stark symbol of Spain's decline.
Handouts from the Red Cross are nothing unusual in a poor neighbourhood. But people are now lining up for rice, pasta, milk and potatoes in Tres Cantos, a supposedly affluent dormitory town, north of Madrid.
Many here are middle class but that has not protected them from the ravages of the Spanish economic downturn.
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