HELLO, MY NAME IS ANDY AND I'M A -------
Yesterday, employing methods stealth and unsavory, I hid in the roomy fridge of a friend lettuces and greens, then planted in the corners of her kitchen counters tomatoes both cherry and plum. This was a small part of the overstock from my kitchen, and I was looking to make the drop somewhere I wouldn't be watched and monitored. A safe house, so to speak. This secretively sequestered stuff, mind you, was in addition to the box of veggies I'd legitimately and openly brought in to her home under the guise of preparing lunch.
We are thick into farm market season and I'm an addicted buyer of from-the-farm produce. I go to a farm market or stand and I can't resist binge-buying. Give me 10 minutes and I will accumulate 10 bags of vegetables. No way can I eat all of this stuff before my next trip to a farm market (likely to take place within 24 hours), so I fob it off on unsuspecting friends. I prefer those who are too polite to protest. Luckily, I have a lot of really nice friends.
My fob-off yesterday did a little to help the space situation in my own home. Still, my fridge is so jammed full right now, I have to clear the kitchen of anything breathing before I dare open the door, lest a veritable avalanche of dandelions, squashes, romaine, chilies, peppers and herbs free-fall out. My collection of pottery currently holds tomatoes, eggplant, peaches, berries . . .
You get the idea. I'm a produce-buying addict. I can't help it.
Only I don't know how to describe myself to people who don't understand my addiction. Is there a word in the English language to describe someone who can't control him or herself when shopping at a farm market, a person who chronically overbuys far, far more than can be cooked and eaten? Is there a word that says I am to fresh produce what Imelda Marcos was to shoes?
Help me, please. Come up with word that could be the dictionary definition of an addicted farm market shopper. Post it under COMMENTS right here. Meanwhile, I'll be thinking of how to reward the cleverest, the most on-target reply.
Other than offering you my undying gratitude.
cheers,
Andy
7.18.07
We are thick into farm market season and I'm an addicted buyer of from-the-farm produce. I go to a farm market or stand and I can't resist binge-buying. Give me 10 minutes and I will accumulate 10 bags of vegetables. No way can I eat all of this stuff before my next trip to a farm market (likely to take place within 24 hours), so I fob it off on unsuspecting friends. I prefer those who are too polite to protest. Luckily, I have a lot of really nice friends.
My fob-off yesterday did a little to help the space situation in my own home. Still, my fridge is so jammed full right now, I have to clear the kitchen of anything breathing before I dare open the door, lest a veritable avalanche of dandelions, squashes, romaine, chilies, peppers and herbs free-fall out. My collection of pottery currently holds tomatoes, eggplant, peaches, berries . . .
You get the idea. I'm a produce-buying addict. I can't help it.
Only I don't know how to describe myself to people who don't understand my addiction. Is there a word in the English language to describe someone who can't control him or herself when shopping at a farm market, a person who chronically overbuys far, far more than can be cooked and eaten? Is there a word that says I am to fresh produce what Imelda Marcos was to shoes?
Help me, please. Come up with word that could be the dictionary definition of an addicted farm market shopper. Post it under COMMENTS right here. Meanwhile, I'll be thinking of how to reward the cleverest, the most on-target reply.
Other than offering you my undying gratitude.
cheers,
Andy
7.18.07
posted by Andrea Clurfeld at 5:42 PM
6 Comments:
You could be OverPRODUCEtive...
Or perhaps OKRAextended...
CH
maybe no one else has the sense of humor or wit - sad -
You might need more than one word to describe this.
I see you as a Patron of Farms. I know how important it is to buy local foods, but I can't think of how to do it until I read what you write about local farms. Then I realize I can buy a lot locally.
But to answer your challenge, even though I'm not witty or humorous, how about, Hello, My name is Andy and I am a Local-vore. A Local-tarian? I'm not sure which sounds better, but that seems to sum up why you are buying as much as you do at local farms. You want to support them. Right?
Localicious!
VEG-A-NATIC
FARM-A-TARIAN
BOUNTY HUNTER
HOT FOR TOMATOES
CORN STALKER
SHAKING FOR PEPPERS
- Jack O'M.
Could CH please shoot me an e-mail at clurfeld@app.com, please? Please just put BLOG REPLY in the guidefield.
thanks,
Andy
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