Aug 12, 2009: Farmer's Market

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. :eek:

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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OH CRAP HERE COMES THE TRAIN!!!!

Grilled veggies, anyone??

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

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

:DNo, some drunken dumbass would stand in front of the train and then sue somebody while they scramble to find their missing body parts.

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!

Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.

Degrees;587402 wrote:

Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.

:lol:

Finally a way to "train" your vegetables. :headshake

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

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

birdclaw;587418 wrote:

Finally a way to "train" your vegetables. :headshake

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

dar512;587435 wrote:

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

:lol2:

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?!?

dmg1969;587452 wrote:

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

:p

9:00 AM - Cucumbers, $1
9:15 AM - Peeled Cucumbers, $1.25

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

"Even if they don’t hit you like a freight train, the environmental messages of the railway track market of Samut Songkhram are certainly there to be chewed over."
I didn't know Enviromental Graffiti was part of the Cellar...

But seriously, did you watch the video? The train goes RIGHT OVER THE VEGETABLES. Yum yum yum.

You mean this video?

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I love the speed with which the stalls reappear after the train passes.

Watch this video of another "train market".

well, that answers my question about the awnings

Whats amazing on that last vid is how many tourist photographers run out.

I bet these places are a mess after a heavy rain.