Haymarket produce is not any more "uberfresh" than anything one would find at the supermarket, not that there's anything wrong with that. If anything, what is found there is probably less so, since it mainly is leftover produce from the New England Produce Center in Chelsea that wasn't distributed to the supermarkets. They sell it on the cheap on Friday and Saturday to make room for Sunday and Monday deliveries (the bulk of which is distributed to retail outlets around the Greater Boston area). It is a good place to get a deal on decent cheap produce, but shoppers who want high quality fresh produce should check out the farmers' markets around the city, not Haymarket.

I will give credence to the tradition of the haymarket, one of the nations oldest open air markets, but as it currently exists its little more than a creepy, corrupt set of stalls where grocery store bag boys ply their trade into old age. Most of the food is several MONTHS old and improperly stored out if doors in summer heat and freezing winter. For theater it can't be beat and I assume that is what the article is really about. Thugs with cigarettes screaming down old chinese ladies never gets dull, and let's not forget the "very definition of FAT" Code Enforcement clowns stuffing pizza in their faces while vendors pick tomatoes off the scuzzy ground.

Thanks, but no thanks.