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.
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.
As a young adult of the 90’s all I see here is Legionnaire’s disease.
It has to be sat for a while, outside of certain temperatures, for that.
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”
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Farm shops are usually even more expensive.
Same here, and those Aldi cucumbers are like 1,50€ or a little more.
Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.
You should hang out by the veggie tray at parties.
That’s how I met my partner. We both love dips. We could talk or not talk about dips all day long and then do it again tomorrow.
More meat it is then. Save the vegetables!
I’m not vegetarian because I like animals. I’m vegetarian because I hate plants.
Awesome! I’ma start a death metal band and put celery and brussel sprouts on the album covers.
- Track 1: “I will Eat your Artichoke!”
- Track 2: “Your Chopped Broccoli Falling on the Floor”
- Track 3: “Sliced Cucumber”
- etc
Guess I’ll just eat rocks then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They’re minerals, Grostleton.
Oh sure. They’ve spend millions of years sedimenting to form or metamorphasizing in the warm molten bosom of Mother Earth, just so you can selfishly stuff your gob with their crunchy goodness. I hope you are happy with yourself.
Scientists have determined that rocks have souls. This revelation came on the heels of the discovery last month that souls definitely exist.
The only ethical move is to starve.
On a more serious note, plants communicate with each other through the plant version of pheromones, and some utilize an underground internet / postal service of sorts made of fungi mycelium called a mycelial network. They can even use this network to pass nutrients to plants that are in need.
That’s fucking metal
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.
It’s actually not even good for them. It’s entirely for the presentation to the humans that buy them. It makes them spoil quicker and is also just a waste of water.
On the upside: They feel pretty good as a human on a hot day.
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
Nothing like a shower at Auschwitz.
I wonder just how tone deaf you have to be to install water fixtures designed to provide comfort at fucking Auschwitz of all places.
I never really see them in use anymore.
I hate this thing. Love our local market, but they use these and it’s so annoying to have soggy everything.
Veggies weigh more and thus cost more? Win/win. Oh wait…
This! These things are a big pet peeve for me. Such a waste.
It probably feels a lot more like this
I’ve been on some patios in the summer that actually do this. It does feel very good.
On a horribly hot summer day in Australia, I’ve been known to hang out in the vege section of the supermarket for the misters before heading off to buy deeply unhealthy things that taste better
