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| - I love the idea of the Farmer's Market. Where else can a fella get purple carrots and gluten-free/nut-free/granola-free granola? A good Farmer's Market is more than just a place where an elderly geezer can inevitably plow through with their car!
A good Farmer's Market is also a place where you should be able to get cheap, fresh food, right from the source. At the Evergreen Brick Works, you get it fresh and from the source, but it's not cheap! No fucking way!
Let me, (a world class cheapskate) give you the rundown of what we got there.
-2 Belgian Waffles - $5 each: Not bad. My wife and son had one each. They were made with dough instead of batter, just the way our neutral friends in Belgium died for us to have.
-1 Blackbean Burger - $8: I felt like a burger so ordered it. Sounds good doesn't it? Think again. What the braless asexual human with aggressive piercings gave me was a half a piece of rye bread with a half puck of hardened bean mush topped with a thin layer of melted "cheese". You can sell anything you want, but please don't call THAT a "burger". A word of advise; when a slob like myself comes to your booth and orders a burger, please size me up and make sure I know what I just ordered. My (everybody's) version of a burger is different than your version.
-2 coffees - $3 each: In the center of food court of the Farmer's Market, there's a bunch of hipsters selling average coffee for double the price. I usually like when hipsters get involved with food or drink, because they usually hyper-focus on it. Be it coffee, or micro brewery, or brunch. But these guys are taking advantage of my addiction to caffeine! How dare you!
Maple Cookies - 3 for $5: These are the exact same sugar cookies I got from Ottawa during Winterlude for 50 cents each.
So the final tally was $29 for almost nothing. I don't mind spending the money, but I couldn't help but feel like I was taken advantage of. It feels a lot like an airport restaurant. If you want something to eat in an airport, you're bound to pay whatever the restaurant charges, because where else are you going to get something to eat? You've made your way down the Don Valley and committed yourselves to an afternoon at the Ever Green Brickworks, just buy something and shut up!
My only explanation for the high prices, is that the booths cost a lot of money at a place like the Evergreen Brickworks. So who better to pay for that cost than the rich people who go to a downtown adjacent Farmer's Market? Unfortunately, my father is not the son of an railroad magnate and I was raised to think about money and how and when I spend it.
Did I complain the whole time? No! Because I was there to have a good time with the family, not ruin an afternoon. I save all my venting and blowharding for Yelp!
@thesideburnguys
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