I don’t think you need to be a vegetable to enjoy a nice mist.
Spritz me harder daddy
It does feel good.
Source: I am a vegetable.
The equivalent for a person would be decapitated heads in the shower.
They hate it, one even tried to chase me but luckily I picked up the wooden ramp before I got out of the store.
Produce was my first job and we used to come in at 5am and clean these occasionally. They get jelly dangly bits hanging from below the veggies that you just spray off and then wash. It was an interesting event.
Dead vegetable reproductive organs.
Get your Brassica out for the lads
Getting that brocussy
Vegan gore
Now in damp!
Be the vegetable you want to be
ok
Contrary to what you may believe, you don’t have to envy these vegetables and can indeed take a shower yourself.
Thats a misting not a shower tho. Also those veggies aint paying for that water.
Yeah but I’ll never feel as good as those vegetables.
You mean cut and dead?
It’s quite warm in the north east of the U.K. at the minute, please do this to me.
Another terrifying british 24°C heat wave?
Yep. I like 12 degrees C with a decent chance of rain.
As a young adult of the 90’s all I see here is Legionnaire’s disease.
I haven’t seen these for over a decade now, they used to be in most stores but it was pretty obvious it created a lot of issues because of all the “moistness”. Good that they got rid of it, at least here in Sweden.
I feel like “the moistness” ought to be a shitty b movie world ending blight.
“Grandpa was killed by the moistness; he shouldn’t havee en been in that valley without his power dryers”
The real moistness was the friends we killed along the way.
I buy all my fruits and veggies straight from the orchard, farm stands or the Amish. Often the products are dirty, have flaws, uneven shapes and varying states of ripeness. I can pay .90 for a cucumber at the store or, five for a dollar at the stand or, pick my own at the Amish farm for .10 a piece. I haven’t shopped in a store since the Covid price hikes. I now eat better, lost weight, cholesterol, sugar and BP all down. I also planted my own berries, plum and apple trees. Cannabis, too. I can wash my own damn fruit. Just say no to corporate greed.
We have a huge Farmers Market open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Its about 10 minutes from my home. Really good deals on fruits, vegetable & baked goods. The deals are even better if you show up about an hour before closing. In today’s economy you have to watch every penny spent.
And later in the summer you can find pick up trucks parked at the side of the road offering sweet corn for far less than you would ever be able to get at a grocery store
Seems like a complete flip to what we have here in the UK, Aldi is by far cheaper than any farmers market I have seen.
There’s a big difference between a farm stand and a farmers market.
Farm shops are also really expensive here
Like, a farm shop at the farm itself, or on the side of the road nearby? That’s what a farm stand is.
Don’t think I have ever really seen one of those. Maybe a sign like eggs 50p each but again that is pretty expensive and it was years ago
Where I’m at they’re usually a glorified lean-to. Ran by either a kid or an old, never anyone in-between. Or just the honor system. Usually has excellent produce for real cheap.
Yeah I live too far from farmland to take advantage. Our farmers market is expensive but the stuff they sell is fantastic. I get ferns there every year. Cheaper than Lowe’s and higher quality. I boycott Home Depot so it’s nice to have options.
Besides being a soulless mega corp who only exist to serve the unholy gods of greed and gluttony, what’s so bad about home Depot?
Same here, and those Aldi cucumbers are like 1,50€ or a little more.
In the US a “farmers market” typically means that a city or town shuts down a few streets and farmers come from their rural farms to the city center to sell their produce. The prices can trend high, because the focus tends to be on quality and known provenence.
What the parent poster is describing is not farmers markets, but farm stands. You have to go to them instead of them coming to you, which is where the savings come from. It might not be worth it depending on the value of your time.
Most farmers markets I’ve seen have dedicated space, no street shutting necessary. There’s one open every day a couple miles from my house.
we had these 20 years ago in my country. but these got removed because they create bacteria and lower shelf life by a lot. nothing good about them at all. just extra cost and work.
Was wondering why we don’t have this in Europe, and the answer is once again, common fucking sense.
I’ve seen them last year in france at some places unfortunately.
They are still around here where I live but they are kinda needed since its dry here (under 20% mostly). Without them the produce desicates. But in moist places? Why?
It was in a coastal region.
That’s gotta be one hell of a moist machine salesman. It would be like trying to sell me a dehumidifier.
As a child I used to be borderline obsessed with the misters and the overall smell and vibe of the produce sections. Always told my mom I wanted to work in one. Thirty years later, purely by circumstance, I manage one for a living. It’s not quite what I dreamed of, given that stores in 2025 are no longer poorly lit nor smell like mothballs and old air conditioning/refrigerant, but I still enjoy my career.
