Union Square Farmers' Market

[oyceter]

I still have blisters from yesterday, and taping band-aids over them do not help! Woes. Also, buying two liters of juice was probably not the best of ideas, given walking to and from the subway and aforementioned blisters

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[coffeeandink]

I feel Food Network should do a show based entirely on farmers' markets around the country and/or world.

I would watch this show!

There are always apples. New York is apple country. Kids go apple-picking on camp and school trips. I've done it, even.

I've seen white peaches in farmers' markets here, although they're less common than yellow peaches or black or red plums. I've never seen pluots here although occasionally there are "exotic" plum varieties (I am thinking of these small but conical very blue plums I got one year), so you'd think people could grow them. I end up having to get all my pluots from supermarkets, imported from other places.

[oyceter]

My imaginary show has an audience of three!

Oooo apple-picking! I went with rilina, which was exciting, but I bet there are even more here!

Oh, I am sad about the pluots. I was hoping I had just missed them, since I remembered eating some at your place, but I guess not.

[oyceter]

Me too! They could totally market it with a promised tour!

in re blisters - look for the special J&J bandaids

[bellatrys]

designed to go on blisters - they are large, kind of off-white, and have a bubble of cushioning goop in them to protect the sore spot, and they don't have the same nasty adhesive that regular bandaids do - they are great for preventing blisters, too (and imo better than regular bandaids for everything but pricy alas.)

They feel disturbingly scifi and have a Trekish look to them, but that's a minor problem. They come in a teal box like this.

(Since I have no working car, blisters are a Pertinent Issue in my life.)

Re: in re blisters - look for the special J&J bandaids

[oyceter]

Oh, thanks for the tip!

You're welcome - I hope they help!

[bellatrys]

I was fairly skeptical at first, but desperate (just had discovered that a pair of dress shoes which seemed okay in the store was ankle-and-bunion ripping after two hours wearing) enough to spend what felt like too much money on a potential solution, and it worked like a charm.

They are also pretty waterproof, so long as you put them on dry skin first, they will stay on through a couple of showerings. The fact that they feel like, well, sea slug skin, or maybe alien pleather, when you're applying them is my only real complaint, but I'm weirdly fussy about touching things with unexpected textures, always have been since childhood, so it may not bother you or most people at all.