Hello my Hive friends. It's Friday once again and it's time for the much awaited #MarketFriday tag hosted by @dswigle. This is an initiative I highly recommend you join or at least know more about. Just click on the link here and have a real cool Steemit experience you'll never forget.
New postings nowadays are a real challenge for Market Fridays, especially for senior citizens like myself who are not allowed to go out of our houses except to buy medicines or go to the doctor or hospital. Still, somehow I have managed to do a few picture taking during the times that I go out to buy medicines but they are limited and fleeting at best. Still, let me share some of these photos I took.
First off is this fruit stall on wheels selling durian, those brownish green fruits with thorny outer skin. This is very popular here in our city. It has a yellow fleshy meat that tastes so good but, to most people, smells so bad. Thus the phrase " . . . tastes like heaven but smells like hell" became famous around here.
Under our ECQ, Enhanced Community Quarantine, food and fruits, whether sold in a vehicle or in a private or public market are allowed to operate for as long as social distancing is maintained. In the picture above, the fruit beside the durian, the one in the brown box and some hanging by the side, is called mangosteen. Like durian, it is an exotic tropical fruit. It has a sweet and sour taste and its rind turns purple when ripe.
The photo below shows a white pick-up parked alongside the first vehicle selling watermelons and durian as well. They were selling watermelons for 30 pesos a kilo or about 60 U.S. cents. I bought one that weighed 5 kilos. In case you are wondering what those yellow things are inside the clear plastic containers, they are the durian meat. This is another way, and a more popular one, of selling durian. The thorny shell makes opening it very difficult most especially to someone who is not an expert at it. So, vendors usually just open the fruit, place the meat in containers, and sell them that way. It's a bit expensive though. The fruit with the skin sells for 80 pesos a kilo (USD1.60) but with the skin off and just the meat it is 250 pesos a kilo (USD 5).
There's another bigger pick-up, they call this an Elf, which supplies these two vehicles with durian and watermelons. Note the makeshift tarp which act as a roof for the fruits.
Have wheels will sell anything. Chanced upon this guy on my way home. He is selling pomelos. It's a citrus fruit, the largest in the citrus family. It's related to the grapefruit.
Here, someone stops him to inquire how much he was selling the pomelos.
That's it for my #marketfriday post. Not so much photos as I was supposed to just buy medicines as my reason for being out of the house. But I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for visiting. Till next Friday. Until then please stay safe, maintain distance, wear a face mask and mostly stay put!
Let me leave me you with a red beauty which I saw in one of my walks before the quarantine. Hopefully, after all this pandemic, we will also begin to blossom as beautifully as this flower.
(All photos are mine.)
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