Farmer’s Market

Why the hell is the Farmer’s Market so crowded?  I know it’s awesome and all, but the crowds create uber-suckage status.  I go there at 7:30AM; I go there at 11AM.  It doesn’t make a difference.  I feel like I’m on a NYC Subway at rush hour.  Try walking through tightly packed sardines trying to find something to eat. It’s not fun.  Waiting 10 minutes for a donut?  Dodging baby carriages that take up the entire width of the pedestrian area? Family of 6, plus 4 grandparents, plus 2 nannys yelling above everyone else?  When will it end? That place is so overcrowded, I am starting to avoid it like the plague.

Aioli

Every (i.e. not every, but MANY) freaking Aioli in this town is Hellmann’s mayonaise with added crap.  That’s not aioli!  There is a reason they call it Hellmann’s.  It is a gelatenous gob of tasteless fat.  Get with the program, chefs.  Impress me and let me know where I can get the real raw egg shizzle that tastes like ambrosia.

UNCUS Cover

The cover reads Single Streamin’ Comminglin’ which sounds like a porn movie gone wrong.  It makes no sense.

Gunshots Late at Night

They freak me out.   People near me have been killed.  Babies have been killed.  What gives?  Maybe we should realize these crimes occur in specific parts of the city and do something about it.

Forgot this one… Mixed Drink Prices

$9 Dollars is now the standard price for a 99% ice, 1% booze mixed drink with a really fancy name.  I like throwing money away, but seriously where can you find mixed drinks in this town for a decent price?

I have a lot more, but they aren’t local.  What are yours?

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There has been a lot of talk on cVillain related to the local/slow/organic food movement. Gobbler wrote a post on the economics behind sustaining a 100% organic diet, thanks to his wife’s new infatuation with the hit-book “Skinny Bitch”. Vanillavy submitted himself to days upon days of a 100% vegetarian diet and prepared a local vegetarian food guide.

So the Charlottesville City Farmers Market is one way to participate in this scene, but there are many other places to embrace this spirit all over town. Courtesy of the Piedmont Environmental Council’s Buy Fresh Buy Local guide, here is the directory to end all directories for the local food scene:

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One of UVA’s engineering brains is working on a thesis to discuss what she calls “food miles,” or the distance it takes food to travel before it has been consumed.  Lauren Doucette says the “average grocery store carrot has traveled 1,600 miles before it is eaten.”

She must love food, because she plans to analyze the relative energy consumption of The Charlottesville City Market and compare it to other sources of food.  She calculates all the energy associated with travel and technology of the 90 vendors at the Market.

She explains:

Through my energy calculations, I found that the amount of energy it takes to transport goods to and from the Charlottesville City Market for one day is about 13,000 kilowatt-hours. This is about how much energy the average household uses in one year

She hopes to help the community understand how to make the Market more efficient.

P.S. The Market opens in 4 weeks, first thing in April!

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