the curse of mystery veggies

and the good food box

Beets

Potatoes

Cabbage

A turnip.

Parsnips.

Pumpking

Squish

Kale.

Fennel.

I like some of these veggies.

Others?

They were included.

We subscribe to food from a farmer.

That’s fine when we’re in the prime time of summer.

Right now, with the earth bursting with overripening bounty, bound to be bottled but running out of time, more veggies every Wednesday makes me think that we don’t so much as buy food to eat as we are actually employees who pay to participate in a carbon supply chain.

The farmer grows the veggies and puts them on a truck and drives them to the sourdough bakery.

We drive to the dough bakery to pick up the veggies.

We put them in the fridge.

On the first couple of days we eat the tip of the iceberg of what we’ve received. Think of it as a ‘greatest hits’ approach to eating the food you’ve paid for.

Naw. I don’t think we’ll eat all of it, but this good stuff? It really needs the backdrop of rotting zucchini and swiss chard slime to make it taste even better.

These veggies, there to play a…