The merchants come early, often before the first light of day. They haul their goods inside in crates, baskets, pails. The butchers lug in boxes stacked high with various cuts of meat. Two people are needed to bring in a big side of beef. Meat products are displayed neatly in the showcases.
Produce is arranged and displayed with loving care.
A choice can be made between at least eight varieties of apples. And there are beautiful persimmons, gleaming tangerines, great piles of seedless grapes, shelled and unshelled nuts, figs, dates, jars of jellies and jams, and lot of delicacies you probably never knew existed. Sauerkraut is fresh and smells wonderful. Rump roasts are well marbled. There are beef tongues, German wieners and sausages, with and without nitrates, slabs of lean spareribs.