[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Originally Posted by The Ironic Chef

At the farmers market I would take a break each morning and go into an on site diner and have breakfast. to this day I still remember the buyers from major super markets sitting in a booth nearby. They would all get together and plot how they could rip off the farmers. They would all decide on some really cheap price to offer for a certain item and all agree to stick to that price. For instance, sweet corn. A bag of sweet corn held 52 ears of corn. The buyers would decide to only offer the farmers 2.00 per bag of corn. They knew that the farmers had to sell their loads of corn because taking a load of corn back home wasn't an option. Sweet corn had to be sold fresh. No one wanted to buy old corn. Usually on a farm if a customer wanted some we would pick it fresh.
Of course going to a supermarket later, the price the store was selling it for didn't reflect the price the cheap SOB's paid for it.

Cheap SOB's *^%$#@**@!!!! I could curse people like that in any language!!! Just reading that fires me up and gets me ticked off, I just can't stand the way that the American Farmer has been treated so shabbily over the years! They are hard working men & women, They deal with the forces of nature in every form imagineable destroying their crops and they feed our ugly mugs- they should be held in highest esteem!!! Not ripped off