However, there were some Mennonite groups who baked bread and pastries for a big flea market type place when we lived in PA and I didn't say no to them....I guess I'm a bigot.
European markets are great! You can find the most amazing stuff in them!
You like to buy food from street people?
Just a comment on the title -
you mean, in Europe, the inner city urbanites haven’t run out the legitimate businesses with their crime and violence?
In Springfield MO we have a growing food truck presence, we have three or four farmers markets, and even in neighborhoods around me, there are people who sell produce from their backyards from their front porch.
Maybe it is just in Southern California and other places you have visited that you can’t buy food directly from growers or small sized businesses.
Every neighborhood here in L.A. has a farmer’s market. It takes place once or twice a week.
The farmers themselves come to set up the booths.
We buy from the farmer direct. Some of thees markets are kinda famous ... see the Santa Monica farmers markets.
The FDA is a typical, DC-centric overkill agency. Give them a hammer, and everything becomes a nail in their eyes.
Import and production of cheeses using non-pastuerized milk will soon become illegal. One of 1000 ridiculous regulations
I agree, one of the cool things about most European cities is that you can wake up and say to yourself, “hey I’d like some fresh bread with my breakfast,” and walk a block to get some (as opposed to driving your car to some monstrosity of a supermarket in order to wait 15 minutes in line to buy stale bread).
There’s quite a few ‘Farmer’s Markets’ here in the Czech Republic - even a local shopping mall has one once every other work, and there’s a lot of farmers in my area.
I can even see a good-sized family farm right from my balcony. When I fresh eggs, I walk downstairs - there’s a little shop run by an older chap and his brother owns a poultry farm.
Sure, but where are you going to buy your lotto tickets?
Plus, they probably don’t take EBT cards.
We gotta stop the Amish from selling their milk and other goods to the unwashed masses....
We gotta ensure that the food is subsidized SOMEWHERE along the chain.... Some part of the Farm bill has to be involved before the food makes it to your mouth otherwise the government loses control....
/sarc
almost makes it worth it to spend 30% of your income on food, doesn’t it?
Fresh bread and a snatch of fruit and veggies for supper!
yeah!
but meat? forget it.
I saw NOTHING in the way of fruit being sold in the streets, but did see it sold in shops.
The other benefit of Europe and the Mediterranean in general is the illegal Africans who have come over along with their Ebola to Italy and elsewhere. Taxi cab drivers and others knew of it, but it is not advertised because they would lose people for vacations.
In general, people getting ripped off 300% worse than even in California over there. A bikini (which is a grilled cheese), can be $12 over there.
No wonder most of the women there are a size 0-2, nobody can afford to eat!
Food from the market is fine as long as it’s safe. Hepatitis and salmonella are a few of the risks you take when buying open market stuff. Poisonous pesticides used in somebodies garden can ruin your day if you eat the produce.
The entire village was like that. One guy I knew lived not far away, was a Polizei and he bred his own rabbits. He raised them through generations, kept some notes almost as Mendel had, and the family ate rabbit stew or whatever on a regular basis.
That is how it was always done until here in America we had our constitutional republic undermined by the lying hypocritical bureaucrats who are successfully installing the coming 1984 type dystopia upon us.
I was in France in the foothills of the Alps last year. We found a cheese shop run by the people who herded the sheep and cows that provided the milk for the cheese.
There is no doubt better cheese on this planet. There is simply not not of it and it cannot be much better.
We did a AmaWaterways river cruise from Paris to Normandy last year. Every day the head chef took a taxi to market purchased all fresh food for that night’s dinner. It was amazing.
I am in Toronto on a trip and noticed all the places and things that would be stopped immediately in the US, particularly second-story restaurants with only stairs that inspectors here wouldn’t allow for the handicapped’s sake, and jaywalking galore. It was so refreshing. They are building high-rise buildings like mad (making room for expat California companies and their workers?). A very friendly city. And the food sold outside on stands was gorgeous - fruits and vegetables I’d never seen before.
This is one thing I like about Kentucky.
Interestingly, vegetables are dirt cheap in the grocery store during the summer. Supply and demand at work.