Potatoes

Trip Start Aug 22, 2008
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Trip End Jul 2009


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Flag of Canada  , Northwest Territories,
Saturday, September 20, 2008

I bought small white new potatoes from the Produce Man.  You enter his "establishment" by climbing a set of aluminum stairs.  Oh wait - that's how you get into almost every building in town.  His place of business sticks out in that it consists of the refrigerated unit that he hauls up here.  The steps lean against the trailer and the door that is 3/4 of the way back.  His only cost is the wooden placard that serves the dual notice of his presense in town and that he is inside the unit.  Oh wait - and the fuel and wear and tear of driving the Dempster Highway.  Still, $1.60 a pound for apples makes it all worth it for his customers.

I'm not much of a cook and can't remember the last time I bought potatoes (I make the kind that comes from a package), but they looked so pretty.  Now I know how my mom felt when she came back to Canada after a year in Czechoslovakia.  She said people stared at her when she oohed and ahhed over all the vegetables in a big chain grocery store.  She was like a kid in a candy store and they thought she was nutty.  I've only been here for three weeks and I'm already buying vegetables because they look "pretty".  Heaven help me in January.
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