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Method Of Russian Shoppers Is "Follow The String Bag" The shopper's string bag fs the clue to what you can hav in WMaseow's fruit and vegetable markets. In this story, Joan Best, wife of Canadian Press correspond- end John Best, telis what it's like to shop in ihe city's market places women out shopping often seem ta he in the market for ust about anything that's going -- she counts herself ahead by having staked out a position. indoors but many of the stail 4 markets are open-air. Most uf | the goods on sale are state produce but, particularly in the By JOAN BEST But if it does -- and Russian) | ers in the other, Moscow's central market is' MOSCOW (CP) -- The secret @f shopping for vegetables and fruit in Moscow is to learn to "follow the string bag", Instead of scanning news- paper advertisements for bar- gains--you'll Zind neither prod- uce ads nor bargains here--the shopper must keep a sharp eye open-airmarkets, you find "en- | trepreneurs" selling goods from | their private plots. These gen- lerally are higher in both price | and quality, | This winter at the central |market the variety of vege- |tables for sale included pota- toes, carrots, onions, beets and ithe shoulder, They cost $1.20 a peeled for purchases carried by | other |eabbages, In January we dis- the pine te already been to} covered a few turnips and en- In that way, before you ar-| Jovyed the variety in our diet, give at the market place, you! Winter radishes. were also have 2 good idea of what is on *Silable. gale that day and don't have to| Sometimes you can find spend so much time looking| *4uash or cauliflower for sale around, | but the prices put them in the When we arrived in Moscow \uxury class, Cauliflower has fast June I set out to find the| been the equivalent of $4.20 a focal open-air market, I had | kilogram -~ 2 1-5 pounds, Once been told the general vicinity) W¢ bought a winter squash for _. * following the route | $3.3 ced by people carrying pota-| aaicq: foes in string bags, war able) CUCUMBERS POPULAR @ locate the market. | During the summer months During the summer months| 'he open market stalls are when many fresh fruits and| busy. Last June we started buy- vegetables were on sale I wag| iS at our local market and it often stopped on the sireet and| ¥48 fun to watch the new fruits ; me, | man, asked where I'd bought toma-| 4d vegetables appear, foes or other purchases in my string bag, In June, cucumbers -- very | popular here --began to show, One of the first Russian words | Radishes and small green I learned was rinok (ree'-nok),| 9Mions were also for sale but meaning market place, } tomatoes were in the luxury Besides learning the market-| Class until July, I was with a intelligence value of string bags | {tiend who bought three aver- I also quickly learned all about | #8¢-size tomatoes for $3 queue -joining, July, August and September were good market months for EVERYONE QUEUES | fruit, Blueberries, raspberries, Russians have a great weak- strawberries, plums, pears and mess for lineups, When a shop-| excellent melons were on sale. Per sees one she gets into it and| By September the seasonal then finds out what she is| fruits were largely gone but the queueing for, If it doesn't inter-| stalls were full of apples @at her she drops out of line, is set aside for flower stalls. We. arrived in Moscow at lilac time and enjoyed buying the variety of flowers as they blossomed into season, Flowers are extremely popu- lar and most shoppers leave the market place with string bags 248 EE: ee eee eae on TR WE LEMS BM FEBS ever Fe one hand and a bouquet of flow- PRICES MISSING Mushrooms are another popu- lar item on the market, They are not only sold fresh, in sea- son, but dried and sold on long strings during the winter, The man or woman selling them dis- plays them by letting the mush- room-laden strongs dangle over about 156 dried string -- for mushrooms, 'Except for a few home-made signs there are no price tags on fruit and vegetable trays. The shopper just has te inquire, Double scales with weights are used for weighing pur- chases, The good shopper takes care to see that only good prod- uce gets on the scales. On two occasions women in) the lineup behind me have! obligingly plucked bad toma-) toes out of the 'ot weighed for | scowled at by the sales-| Once when I was buying apples, the woman _ gelling apples next door wasn't busy so she removed two rotten apples I had missed, 1 have no doubt the man selling me the apples had a few words with her after- wards, Wrapping is casual or non-| existent. If you don't bring your own carton or bag you will get) your blueberries in a bit of newspaper folded into a cone, | They have barrels of whole | dill pickles which are scooped on to the scales, If you don't supply a carton the wet pickles | are dumped into your string | bag with the other vegetables, | Sauerkraut and smetana--an | excellent sour cream--are sold | ; in bulk so you must supply your At our market a large area' awn jars, OSHAWA'S FOREMOST FINE CLOTHIER for the best in FO RMAL ATTIRE NEW by Progress Brand Clothes in the latest of fashion and fabrics! RENTALS A complete formal service by Free. man's for every occasion -- tailored ry to fit, THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuosdoy, June 21, 1966 BA MEMO TO WIVES coffeemaker -- an easy+ta- clean stainless model won't give coffee that "old grounds" taste that husbands hate, Smart wives never give their husbands grounds for complaint - especially in the early morning! 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