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**teridbruse** · 08-26-2009, 11:15 PM

*rant alert*

The only NYC greenmarket I've been to is the one in Union Square. It's an interesting visual experience but I would never shop there. The prices seem more jacked up than at Food Emporium (and that's really jacked!!).

Excuse me, but aren't farmer's markets supposed to be where you go for a deal, prices cheaper than at Food Emporium, Whole Foods, or the other thieving food stores?

Hell no...the concept of bargains at a farmer's market is another thing that just gets lost in the New York translation. Here, the prices are actually higher at the farmer's market! (unless you go to Stiles, the only real deal on produce in Manhattan). It's all backwards!

The farmers probably go home at night and laugh at all the stupid city folks they just robbed...$3.99 a pound for some gawd-damned tomatoes ought to be a crime, and don't get me started on the precious loaves of $5.00 bread...or the jars of honey hand squeezed out of an organic honeybee's bum.

The whole Union Square "greenmarket" is just too damned precious.

08-26-2009, 11:15 PM	#25
teridbruse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 415 Senior Member	rant alert The only NYC greenmarket I've been to is the one in Union Square. It's an interesting visual experience but I would never shop there. The prices seem more jacked up than at Food Emporium (and that's really jacked!!). Excuse me, but aren't farmer's markets supposed to be where you go for a deal, prices cheaper than at Food Emporium, Whole Foods, or the other thieving food stores? Hell no...the concept of bargains at a farmer's market is another thing that just gets lost in the New York translation. Here, the prices are actually higher at the farmer's market! (unless you go to Stiles, the only real deal on produce in Manhattan). It's all backwards! The farmers probably go home at night and laugh at all the stupid city folks they just robbed...$3.99 a pound for some gawd-damned tomatoes ought to be a crime, and don't get me started on the precious loaves of $5.00 bread...or the jars of honey hand squeezed out of an organic honeybee's bum. The whole Union Square "greenmarket" is just too damned precious.
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