It's not your father's Haymarket

I couldn't stand the apologetic tone of that article. There are so many unsuspecting new residents, students, and tourists alike that descend upon the haymarket and take a bunch of instagrams, and expect it to be what it is in almost every other city in america...a farmers market offering local, seasonal, and quality products. Instead they get boxes of overripe dole bananas, bags of onions, and dodgy meat. It's the Stop and Shop equivalent to a farmer's market's Whole Foods. If you're going for value (Stoke nicely frames it as "Quality? I’d say, it’s excellent, compared with the price" There are plenty of places for old age pensioners and students to buy cheap, almost rotting food for low low prices...why are we putting ours out in the open and in the center of our tourism?

Hopefully the future of the square/parcel 9 with BPM will include local artists, local ingredients, and show that we're not just a culture that thrives on rotten plantains. It's what people expect from a clean, responsible, multifaceted city.