Saturday May 28th - The Market

Saturday was my last morning working at the market as a senior project intern. This weekend Lou and Savery and I manned the stand alone because David was out of town, and Michal finished her project on Thursday. It was sort of a gray morning, and probably the slowest day at the market I had seen so far, and yet we still sold all of the 14 packs of ground beef that we had brought to the market. We had no vegetables this week, only a few chives and basil in little pots for people to replant in their gardens. All the basil sold, but there were a few disgruntled costumers looking for vegetables. Another interesting thing happened at this market with the stir-fry. Apparently Snake Hill has a special stir fry cut, already minced into little sections, perfect for stir-fry. It's a low key but good cut of meat. We tried giving out samples of the stir-fry at first to move some of it out of the coolers and into purchasers hands, but no one was biting. So finally we gave up and began sampling sausage, which immediately sold out. It's interesting how people preferred the less fancy ground beef + spices that make up a sausage versus the stir fry. I think it just shows how much trends are involved, and how hard it is for people to step out of their comfort zones. Sausage is easy there is nothing to mess up. Stir-fry feels like a commitment. After this project I have a whole new relationship with food.