Aug 12, 2009: Farmer's Market

xoxoxoBruce · 08-12-2009, 12:46 AM

Farmer's markets are wonderful. All those fruits, veggies, and sometimes flowers, honey or dairy, fresh from the farm.

This one is in Thailand, Samut Songkhram province, but can you spot a difference?

Railroad tracks right down the middle make a good defined path for shoppers...
and the eight express trains a day that use these tracks.

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Every day in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, a unique market is held whose vendors need feet as quick as their minds. Why? Because much of the market is located directly on a set of operational railway tracks. Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual resumes.

That must keep everybody on their toes... or lose them.

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SPUCK · 08-12-2009, 02:27 AM

OH CRAP HERE COMES THE TRAIN!!!!

Laurie Henderson · 08-12-2009, 06:20 AM

Grilled veggies, anyone??

spudcon · 08-12-2009, 06:46 AM

If I was there, some of them veggies would be put on the rails, just before the train comes.

capnhowdy · 08-12-2009, 06:48 AM

This would never work in the lawsuit-happy U.S.A.

Shawnee123 · 08-12-2009, 07:29 AM

No, some drunken dumbass would stand in front of the train and then sue somebody while they scramble to find their missing body parts.

Sundae · 08-12-2009, 07:29 AM

There's a section in one of Michael Palin's travel documentaries that reminds me of this a little. He's travelling between Chile and Bolivia, and the train is running very, very late.

When they get to La Paz, they have to arrange for cars and people to be moved off the track - the trains are so notoriously bad that the railway line is not treated with any kind of concern, it's just part of the street.

Not quite as dangerous as here of course!

Degrees · 08-12-2009, 08:41 AM

Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.

Trilby · 08-12-2009, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Degrees

Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.

birdclaw · 08-12-2009, 10:36 AM

Finally a way to "train" your vegetables.

dar512 · 08-12-2009, 11:36 AM

Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food.

dmg1969 · 08-12-2009, 02:25 PM

Wouldn't that make all of the veggies.......squash?

Gravdigr · 08-12-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by birdclaw

Finally a way to "train" your vegetables.

Pulling a train on a vegetable is the one of the most heinous things I can imagine. (And I have one helluva imagination!!)

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Originally Posted by dar512

Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food.

newtimer · 08-12-2009, 05:14 PM

They have their market here for the benefit of tourists who like to come and take photos of their market. Otherwise, why wouldn't they just move to one side or the other and get off the freakin' tracks?!?

Saknussem · 08-12-2009, 10:00 PM

And here I thought the difference was that in Thailand you can buy little girls in pink dresses in their Farmers' Markets. Stupid me.

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newtimer Operations Operative Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 479	They have their market here for the benefit of tourists who like to come and take photos of their market. Otherwise, why wouldn't they just move to one side or the other and get off the freakin' tracks?!?

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