Out and about at the downtown market yesterday, the little free-loader in me awoke and asked me if I thought I could sample enough food in cville for free without paying for it. I have a couple pieces to the puzzle but am definitely missing some. Here is what I have so far:

Breakfast

• Albemarle Baking Company: they have samples of 3-4 baked goods at the counter…just play nice and see they don’t notice you taking more than one!

Appetizers

• Feast!: As you enter head towards the meat/cheese counter. There is a table setup in front of the display case with various delicious offerings such as pickled okra, sweet german pickles, and usually at least one kind of cheese (sometimes 2-3) with ABC bread

Lunch

• Whole Foods Market: This is actually a one-stop shop for the freeloader in all of us. Go around lunch time to sample just about everything.

Desserts

• Splendora’s: so many flavors, so little time…there has to be a limit here!
• Milano: so few flavors makes picking a gelato sample very easy
• Gearhart’s Chocolates: a small table on the wall to the left of the main display case usually has pieces of their solid chocolate bars for sample. By pieces I mean chocolate chip size samples. But if any of you have had Gearhart’s, one little morsel is usually enough to satisfy a craving. This week they have their “Maya” bar for sampling

As you can see I am short of enough places on this list to give you all choices…so, what did I miss?
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