Latest on what's up with the Haymarket

Walked to the Haymarket earlier this afternoon, and here's a quick summary: there was nothing interesting enough to excite the senses. The one-dollar pineapples and personal-sized watermelons are pretty great deals, but not exciting enough for somebody planning on boozemaking. They're the only fruits around, and the vegetables are pretty standard and unexciting. There was a single dollar bill in my wallet and it didn't get used. The trip was fun...an hour of walking to Lechmere and then a 15 minute busride to North Station and then a ten minute walk to Haymarket, during which I listened to podcasts. But the destination itself...bleh.

Unlike the past several occasions I don't blame the place though, it's that time of the year, not early enough to be Spring but past the season for winter fruits and veggies. Everything they have is shipped in from somewhere or grown in greenhouses. So it'll be expensive. Oh there was a lot of $5 a pound oyster mushrooms, the most exciting prospect out there probably. And the stalls were shutting down and packing up at 4.30 already which was a massive disappointment. Perhaps it's me, or maybe it's the economics of the place really changing. We'll see in the coming months.

Now regularly if it had been any other time I'd have been excited to go to Chinatown to shop for groceries or at least to the bakeries to get some pastries. Didn't feel at all this time around. Walked listlessly at Primark instead, hoping to find something that would catch my interest, maybe a well-priced essential I thought. Nothing of the sort was available.

So the trip was a little bit disappointing and lowkey. On return -- took the red line for that -- I looked up good places to buy dinner. Figured Mike's at Davis would be a good idea. Compared their menu against the Italian place near my home to discover that they're much more expensive for a really crappy and uninventive menu. Rejected the idea in favor of going to that lovely place and doing eggplant parms. Eggplants, that's another vegetable that was cheap at the haymarket, a buck each for those small eggplants. The 89 bus was right outside, took that and walked the rest of the way home. Didn't go to the Italian place because it'd mean ten minutes of extra walk. Just made myself an overly exquisite ramen, of which I have some leftovers, and a few pieces of truffle fries that BB and R were having. It was a filling and healthy meal, tasted amazing too. For the first time perhaps ever I had full control of my senses and had the awareness to throw out the spice packet and use my own mixture. Don't need that extra trash spices and sodium for no additional flavor. Guess I'm an adult now then ehh.

Not even good ginger, dunno what's happening with the Haymarket, but I'm really hoping it's the seasonal matter and things will be back on track in the coming season.