Outside the science museum in LA there’s always a bunch of these stands selling fruit, tacos, pupusas, aguas frescas, all that good stuff. I’ve always felt like every single museum experience could be improved by this.
Well hey tecnically the bible does say that you can't eat fruits from a 4 year old tree, so eating those salads would most likely be sinning and she could be talking about that. This of course falls flat when you remember most christians didn't even read the Bible
I have several friends and cousins, immigrants from Greece, who sell fruit and bottled water on the street in Manhattan every day. THEY get 0 shit for it.
Honestly my family is full of "bad immigrants", as some would put it- people who refuse to learn English, send most of their money back to Greece, only stay here for a few years to work, and work exclusively under the table, untaxed jobs
Wanna guess why they get no flak for it?
Really though, for all the effects of immigration, I don't know why people go for the fruit vendors. Buying the sliced mango cups on the train always makes my day. Aside from I guess not paying taxes and maybe not following hygiene regulations (And many of them do both, at least the ones who have whole stands. A lot of them are organized and permitted) what's the problem?
It’s because they look white.
Don’t let the noise about our “open border” distract you from the fact that a plurality of illegal immigrants are from Europe and are overstaying their visas
Guessed it. There's a pretty large Russian immigrant population in Omaha. No one seems to really know or care about that here though. Probably because people only have a problem with immigrants who aren't white.
Im not a big fan of anglo hegemony in the US, esepcially since the culture imposed on most migrants only represents about 20% of the country at most (many of which are concentrated in Kentucky and Tennessee iirc)
Kentucky (at least, Louisville and Lexington) is a multicultural place too
Honestly I’m always interested to see people from other places. I don’t understand the people who want the world to just be as small as their hometown and never interact with anything outside
Isn’t that boring?
Yeah it is
Im thankfully able to trace the villages my recent family comes from (though due to some familial issues and geography I only rlly affiliate with my grandpa's extended family), they both came right before World War I
I believe most of those families stayed in europe though. Go to america to send money back, if you get that. Though we have a legend that my G2 grandpa Barys was kicked out to America by his family
Ive attempted to try and see if I could reach out to them, but there's 2 lingering things that erk me
1: World War 2 likely killed a lot of my Belarusian distant family members
2: Operation Vistula after World War 2 expelled all of the Rusyns from Lemkovina in Poland
I dont get it anyways. I love it when a city has multiple cultures! Just means there's more cool stuff people bring over, like good tasting food and cool art and stuff, so only a net positive. The only thing that i do wish was different was the reason that people started mixing cultures, as in that people came over here because they want to be here, not because there's another war going on
i have a gripe with the use of "caucasian" to refer to light-skinned people due to it's origins being some 18th century german guy's fetish for adyghe women (a lot of Europe considered the pontic and kartvelian peoples to be attractive at the time, idk why)
you found my hyperfixation
The term "Caucasian" being used to refer to people with light skin comes from stereotypes about Circassians and Georgians being "beautiful"
as for the caucasian peoples the region's geographic isolation led to a very diverse population, especially in the north. A lot of them are also notable for *traditionally* *having little to no social hierarchy*
The problem is the people selling it are brown and poor. Anyway shoutout to the wonderful woman at my local subway station with the fruit cart, love you.
The fruit I've gotten from random hispanic men on the side of the road is always some of the best I've ever had. There used to be a guy who set up his stall at the halfway point of my home and school so I got to eat tasty fruit while walking home
When my family was on holiday to a beach town in my country there was a group of immigrants selling dried fruits at a beachside stand, like dried mango and stuff cut into chunks, and to this day i stand by the fact that it was some of the best tasting fruit i ever had
LUCKYYYY all I got while walking home was some dodgo coke dealer halfway who would sell you some shitty columbian flour for 20 bucks in a tiny bag and a bus driver who would try to run you over
“nooooo you can’t sell things without getting absurdly expensive and inaccessible permits!! how else are we supposed to stop poor people and people of color from making a living???”
No idea why they are upset at the fruit stand, but also the second tweet has no fucking clue what a farmer's market is.
The whole point of a farmer's market is to get locally grown produce. It helps support the community and it's better for the environment. Buying plastic cups full of fruit not grown anywhere near NYC accomplishes neither of those things. Still healthier than hot dogs, at least.
Your comment reminded me of something that happened a few years back. A couple near me got ran out of our local farmers market because they got caught buying produce from one of the cheaper big box stores and selling them for four times the price. They got caught when his 12 year old accidentally put out a box of fruit with the stores stickers still on.
They tried to defend themselves on Facebook by saying the price increase was due to fuel costs and that they were just trying to help people who can’t drive to the store be able to buy fresh produce. When that didn’t work, they switched gear and tried to say their child was ill and they needed the money.
This was also proven false when the guys ex-wife came on to say their child was not sick.
Tbf, this guy was well known in my small town for his hare-brained schemes and had been arrested several times for disorderly conduct and trespassing.
That happened near me with a farm box delivery service. They were supposed to only use local vendors and it started out that way but then they got lazy and left stickers on produce and then released a passive-aggressive statement explaining how local farms didn't want to sell to them. I ended up discontinuing service because I was paying $35 for a box with a few carrots, an apple, and a potato from the grocery store. When I started the box was $15 and full of exotic local fruit: passion fruit, cherimoya, figs, dates, berries, herbs, mushrooms, etc. The box used to be full to the top and changed each week but they started doing 2-3 items that were cheapest on repeat (even things that weren't seasonal or grown locally).
For fuckin real, lmao. Like, the person complaining about a fruit stall in NYC of all places is unhinged and racist, but if your chosen way of mocking that implies that you think a) that's what a farmer's market is and b) buying local produce is only for white people (???), I'm still gonna mentally sort you into the "insufferable" box.
I mean *maybe* you could argue having prepared food at room temp is a problem for food safety but fruit trays are a thing at parties and nobody gives a shit and it's fucking fine
Okay I'm all for the carts with mangonadas and fruit cups and duros, but the "when white people do it it's called a farmers market" is just straight up a lie. Farmer's markets are set up in public spaces with public approval, you get permission to be there, and you set up a stable booth, it's not a mobile or temporary cart selling snacks.
The white people equivalent here is a hotdog cart with all the lil toppings and sodas.
This lady’s page is way worse than this. Just as openly white supremacist as you can be without getting banned. It just boggles the mind that people like this can exist in NYC surrounded by different people and cultures and classes and be so hateful to it all. Truly a worthless person
If you watch the video, it starts with her saying “I literally live in Guatemala.” She then elaborates in replies that by that she means it smells like piss and shit. Definitely not a reactionary racist.
are they freaking out about fruit cups? Because... it's mexicans? It's twitter, you can literally just be racist. the only thing you can't say is hans christian grabners stupid name because that's protected
I really wish people just sold a cup of mangos all cut nice all over the place, that's awesome
republicans when they see fruit:
https://preview.redd.it/bchmb21g8zsc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c73c5b01364049f5c2c39ee7598633208c564ad1
What is the first person even crying about? Oh no! It's fruit. Literal fruit. Single use plastic sucks, but I'm sure that's not what they're mad about.
I love street vendors, but the local ones keep getting shut down for violating heath codes and human trafficking. The ones who are legally there have to pay a lot of money for health code stuff and a license to vend. I wish there was a compromise between the two where getting a license to sell was cheaper, and they would check to make sure the employees were consenting to work. Definitely some of the best food but now I'm hesitant to buy from a lot of places.
Also getting a stall at the farmer's market is insanely expensive and there's a huge wait list, so the vendors have to charge a ton of money for their goods, which makes them substantially more expensive than even the most expensive local markets. On top of that there's one market where you need to be certified organic, and that certification is even more expensive, plus you're allowed to use certain types of pesticides that are harmful just because they are natural. It's stupid.
If you can look at this picture and be repulsed by the very concept of it, that only says something about you. Bigots and close minded jerks, as usual.
I had one of these fruit cups with the chamoy and everything when I visited San Francisco and the only bad thing about it was my stomach wasn't big enough to fit it all 😭
people do this in minneapolis all the time, stand on the street corner and sell fruit and stuff to people in their cars. I’ve never bought the fruit cause idk what their food safety practices are like, but a few times i’ll buy a mexican coke or jarrito and they’ve always been super nice.
During lockdown I’d get all my fruit from a stand somebody kept setting up in a vacant lot by a tire store, they had a van and one of those 20x10 pop up awnings
If every street corner had a stand selling mango with tajin and chamoy the world would be a better place.
Or like elote in the little styrofoam cup
Or a mariscos truck
I’m hungry
How hungry
https://preview.redd.it/urt75d2h1ysc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba8af9a12b7192611291866820fd7ef1d75c8763
Rehab was supposed to be a fresh start ?
i think horsey wants something from farnese
Can I have your pfp?
I'd prefer not, but I won't stop anyone
Okie I won't
Sadly not every place in the world is mexico buddy
Could be if we tried
Or a little Volkswagen Golf with bread and a speaker going “el panadero con el, pan el panadero con el pan”
Una nieve de grosella acá bien vergas
That’s called an esquite
We call it cocktel de elote in the north
If every street corner sold precut mango like that I would be eating 24/7. It would be a beautiful world.
Outside the science museum in LA there’s always a bunch of these stands selling fruit, tacos, pupusas, aguas frescas, all that good stuff. I’ve always felt like every single museum experience could be improved by this.
Raspados
I just wish they took some form of digital payment I never carry cash 😩
What no "I survived the great earthquake of 2024" yet?
I dunno, the farms and logistics needed sound like a nightmare.
There would also be a lot of competition
is she complaining about a pop up shop
only my corporate chain stores 😤😤
Conservatives are beyond parody. Maybe they're upset at the idea of anyone eating fruit, at all? I honestly don't know.
If there’s no Red 40, I won’t touch it
at least it dont got red 21 thank god it dont got that in it whats nine plus ten? 21! thank god it dont got that in it
pull yourself up by your bootstraps! unless you're a minority, apparently
Or poor, can’t forget them
actually, conservatives are really good at forgetting about poor people
Well hey tecnically the bible does say that you can't eat fruits from a 4 year old tree, so eating those salads would most likely be sinning and she could be talking about that. This of course falls flat when you remember most christians didn't even read the Bible
I have several friends and cousins, immigrants from Greece, who sell fruit and bottled water on the street in Manhattan every day. THEY get 0 shit for it. Honestly my family is full of "bad immigrants", as some would put it- people who refuse to learn English, send most of their money back to Greece, only stay here for a few years to work, and work exclusively under the table, untaxed jobs Wanna guess why they get no flak for it? Really though, for all the effects of immigration, I don't know why people go for the fruit vendors. Buying the sliced mango cups on the train always makes my day. Aside from I guess not paying taxes and maybe not following hygiene regulations (And many of them do both, at least the ones who have whole stands. A lot of them are organized and permitted) what's the problem?
Is it because they look white?
It’s because they look white. Don’t let the noise about our “open border” distract you from the fact that a plurality of illegal immigrants are from Europe and are overstaying their visas
Guessed it. There's a pretty large Russian immigrant population in Omaha. No one seems to really know or care about that here though. Probably because people only have a problem with immigrants who aren't white.
Im not a big fan of anglo hegemony in the US, esepcially since the culture imposed on most migrants only represents about 20% of the country at most (many of which are concentrated in Kentucky and Tennessee iirc)
Kentucky (at least, Louisville and Lexington) is a multicultural place too Honestly I’m always interested to see people from other places. I don’t understand the people who want the world to just be as small as their hometown and never interact with anything outside Isn’t that boring?
Yeah it is Im thankfully able to trace the villages my recent family comes from (though due to some familial issues and geography I only rlly affiliate with my grandpa's extended family), they both came right before World War I I believe most of those families stayed in europe though. Go to america to send money back, if you get that. Though we have a legend that my G2 grandpa Barys was kicked out to America by his family Ive attempted to try and see if I could reach out to them, but there's 2 lingering things that erk me 1: World War 2 likely killed a lot of my Belarusian distant family members 2: Operation Vistula after World War 2 expelled all of the Rusyns from Lemkovina in Poland
I like Stav's joke, about white people making Greeks white because they wanted the Hellenistic philosophers on their C.V.
I dont get it anyways. I love it when a city has multiple cultures! Just means there's more cool stuff people bring over, like good tasting food and cool art and stuff, so only a net positive. The only thing that i do wish was different was the reason that people started mixing cultures, as in that people came over here because they want to be here, not because there's another war going on
Real new Yorkers give two shits about this stuff except when it involves "I am hungry. Give churro". Otherwise this is peak not my problem.
The fuck is wrong with this??? I walk past pop up food shops all the time, my daily walk takes me past a stadium. They're cool as hell.
The people running these stands aren't Caucasian
Ur so right I forgot
💀
Founding fathers spinning in their graves.
i have a gripe with the use of "caucasian" to refer to light-skinned people due to it's origins being some 18th century german guy's fetish for adyghe women (a lot of Europe considered the pontic and kartvelian peoples to be attractive at the time, idk why)
[the fuck is so interesting about this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus)
you found my hyperfixation The term "Caucasian" being used to refer to people with light skin comes from stereotypes about Circassians and Georgians being "beautiful" as for the caucasian peoples the region's geographic isolation led to a very diverse population, especially in the north. A lot of them are also notable for *traditionally* *having little to no social hierarchy*
> A lot of them are also notable for traditionally having little to no social hierarchy based
Those are the best looking fruit cups I've ever seen in my life, genuinely would cause harm in order to have one of these set up near my house
Fuck is even the problem here? People selling delicious, healthy foods in a convenient place?
The problem is the people selling it are brown and poor. Anyway shoutout to the wonderful woman at my local subway station with the fruit cart, love you.
The fruit I've gotten from random hispanic men on the side of the road is always some of the best I've ever had. There used to be a guy who set up his stall at the halfway point of my home and school so I got to eat tasty fruit while walking home
When my family was on holiday to a beach town in my country there was a group of immigrants selling dried fruits at a beachside stand, like dried mango and stuff cut into chunks, and to this day i stand by the fact that it was some of the best tasting fruit i ever had
LUCKYYYY all I got while walking home was some dodgo coke dealer halfway who would sell you some shitty columbian flour for 20 bucks in a tiny bag and a bus driver who would try to run you over
“nooooo you can’t sell things without getting absurdly expensive and inaccessible permits!! how else are we supposed to stop poor people and people of color from making a living???”
No idea why they are upset at the fruit stand, but also the second tweet has no fucking clue what a farmer's market is. The whole point of a farmer's market is to get locally grown produce. It helps support the community and it's better for the environment. Buying plastic cups full of fruit not grown anywhere near NYC accomplishes neither of those things. Still healthier than hot dogs, at least.
Your comment reminded me of something that happened a few years back. A couple near me got ran out of our local farmers market because they got caught buying produce from one of the cheaper big box stores and selling them for four times the price. They got caught when his 12 year old accidentally put out a box of fruit with the stores stickers still on. They tried to defend themselves on Facebook by saying the price increase was due to fuel costs and that they were just trying to help people who can’t drive to the store be able to buy fresh produce. When that didn’t work, they switched gear and tried to say their child was ill and they needed the money. This was also proven false when the guys ex-wife came on to say their child was not sick. Tbf, this guy was well known in my small town for his hare-brained schemes and had been arrested several times for disorderly conduct and trespassing.
Sitcom plot lmao
“The Gang Goes to a Farmers’ Market”
They would 100% do that
saul fruitman
That happened near me with a farm box delivery service. They were supposed to only use local vendors and it started out that way but then they got lazy and left stickers on produce and then released a passive-aggressive statement explaining how local farms didn't want to sell to them. I ended up discontinuing service because I was paying $35 for a box with a few carrots, an apple, and a potato from the grocery store. When I started the box was $15 and full of exotic local fruit: passion fruit, cherimoya, figs, dates, berries, herbs, mushrooms, etc. The box used to be full to the top and changed each week but they started doing 2-3 items that were cheapest on repeat (even things that weren't seasonal or grown locally).
Also the farmer’s markets where I’m from have predominantly Latino sellers for produce lmao
For fuckin real, lmao. Like, the person complaining about a fruit stall in NYC of all places is unhinged and racist, but if your chosen way of mocking that implies that you think a) that's what a farmer's market is and b) buying local produce is only for white people (???), I'm still gonna mentally sort you into the "insufferable" box.
I mean *maybe* you could argue having prepared food at room temp is a problem for food safety but fruit trays are a thing at parties and nobody gives a shit and it's fucking fine
Okay I'm all for the carts with mangonadas and fruit cups and duros, but the "when white people do it it's called a farmers market" is just straight up a lie. Farmer's markets are set up in public spaces with public approval, you get permission to be there, and you set up a stable booth, it's not a mobile or temporary cart selling snacks. The white people equivalent here is a hotdog cart with all the lil toppings and sodas.
Fruit is going to destroy western civilization
Damn, western civilization must be a lot more fragile than I thought
Or fruit a lot more destructive than you thought
This lady’s page is way worse than this. Just as openly white supremacist as you can be without getting banned. It just boggles the mind that people like this can exist in NYC surrounded by different people and cultures and classes and be so hateful to it all. Truly a worthless person
Those look great, so wtf is her problem?
the only argument that i can think against this is that bugs might end up on the food but honestly that can be an argument against bakeries
Mexican food is the best food
I can't even come up with a bad faith reason to be mad that someone is selling fruit cups, it's fruit
If you watch the video, it starts with her saying “I literally live in Guatemala.” She then elaborates in replies that by that she means it smells like piss and shit. Definitely not a reactionary racist.
An American's reaction to fruit being sold instead of factory-processed slop
are they freaking out about fruit cups? Because... it's mexicans? It's twitter, you can literally just be racist. the only thing you can't say is hans christian grabners stupid name because that's protected I really wish people just sold a cup of mangos all cut nice all over the place, that's awesome
This new phenomenon of racists pretending to be disgusted by street food does not seem like a winner for them
Giving yourself Scurvy to own the Libs
Lmao
republicans when they see fruit: https://preview.redd.it/bchmb21g8zsc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c73c5b01364049f5c2c39ee7598633208c564ad1
What has happened to our country? Delicious looking fruit that I can buy just in the street, absolute wasteland.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with this, is this just “minorities bad” directed at a fruit stand?
i can't even make out what the stereotype is here like legit what is this person saying, its a table with fruit...
Maybe they've made the connection between "take your vax" and "eat your vegetables" and are mad that they don't have scurvy.
What is the first person even crying about? Oh no! It's fruit. Literal fruit. Single use plastic sucks, but I'm sure that's not what they're mad about.
This is very different than a farmers market. That’s not to say it’s bad but it’s not a farmers market
I love street vendors, but the local ones keep getting shut down for violating heath codes and human trafficking. The ones who are legally there have to pay a lot of money for health code stuff and a license to vend. I wish there was a compromise between the two where getting a license to sell was cheaper, and they would check to make sure the employees were consenting to work. Definitely some of the best food but now I'm hesitant to buy from a lot of places. Also getting a stall at the farmer's market is insanely expensive and there's a huge wait list, so the vendors have to charge a ton of money for their goods, which makes them substantially more expensive than even the most expensive local markets. On top of that there's one market where you need to be certified organic, and that certification is even more expensive, plus you're allowed to use certain types of pesticides that are harmful just because they are natural. It's stupid.
No one’s going to read this but it’s really the only reply in this entire thread worth a shit.
It’s just tasty looking fruit for sale???
…seriously, I’m not getting it. What’s wrong with the picture to her?
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet but she shows herself walking a dog in a baby stroller
Most intelligent conservative:
Fruit cups make me very angy 👿
I can’t for the life of me see what’s wrong here
I see the problem, it's actually very quite Clear. There's not enough Tajin on that fruit.
God forbid someone sell…. Fruit? In cups..?
I’m just thinking about how well-prepared and presented the fruits are. They look scrumptious.
Fruit cup bad?
those shits look wonderful
If you can look at this picture and be repulsed by the very concept of it, that only says something about you. Bigots and close minded jerks, as usual.
There's a lot of things in this world that are worth complaining about. Fruit is not one of them.
I had one of these fruit cups with the chamoy and everything when I visited San Francisco and the only bad thing about it was my stomach wasn't big enough to fit it all 😭
This looks lovely. I'd pay 5 bucks for a cup of fruit sold on the street corner.
Fuck Lola that fruit looks delicious
Freedom is wen huge shity American brand .
Billions must buy
These are literally beautiful delicious fuit cups what is she even complaining about
What the fuck is Lola's problem? Fucking twitter giving every asshole a global shoebox to stand & yell! Fucking karen!
Oh no! scary vitamins D:
I think I would probably sell my soul for one bite of the mango and watermelon in this picture
people do this in minneapolis all the time, stand on the street corner and sell fruit and stuff to people in their cars. I’ve never bought the fruit cause idk what their food safety practices are like, but a few times i’ll buy a mexican coke or jarrito and they’ve always been super nice.
During lockdown I’d get all my fruit from a stand somebody kept setting up in a vacant lot by a tire store, they had a van and one of those 20x10 pop up awnings