Saturday, June 16, 2007

Off the back of a truck

I know that the market-eers here are regulated- each store displays it's own array of certificates of approval, registration, familial protection... judging by the offical-looking blue rubber stamp adorning them.

But there is another kind of seller, which tends to move about, setting up tables outside market buildings, selling bunches of hand-picked flowers from the forests, home-made relishes, pickles, and korean salads, hand-knitted socks, booties, scarves and gloves, and cheap plastic house slippers.

There's the "cheap table"- a lady who regularly sets up a trestle table on the sidewalk and sells out-of-date (usually edible) food stuffs for minimal prices.

There's a couple who seem to grow their own produce, mostly potatoes, and sell them direct;

And there's the back of the truck.

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