July 18, 2012

Travel Theme: Food

By Robert S Johnson

To market, to market to buy a fat pig;

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.

To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;

Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

To market, to market, to buy a plum cake;

Home again, home again, market is late.

To market, to market, to buy a plum bun;

Home again, home again, market is done.

To market, to market, a gallop a trot,

To buy some meat to put in the pot;

three pence a quarter, a grout a side

If it hadn’t been killed it must have died

Ailsa, Where’s my Backpack?, came up with the theme of food this week.

I present the largest food market I have ever seen, The Jean Talon Market, in Montreal…it is both indoor and outdoor. We visited April 3, 2010.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 12:33 am and tagged with Farmers Market, Food, Jean Talon Market, Maple Syrup, market, Montreal, New York City, Outdoor market, postaday2012 and posted in Photography. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

7 Responses to “Travel Theme: Food”

reb
July 25th, 2012 at 8:33 am

I’ve never been to Montreal, only their airport [Trudeau], but I jumped when I saw the name Jean Talon … in Quebec, I guess that’s a famous name. There is a big boulevard in QC with that name, and some market too..

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- quotidianhudsonriver
  July 25th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
  
  Montreal is a great city…I would say the 2nd or 3rd best in North America. You really should visit someday!
  
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July 19th, 2012 at 10:12 am

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adinparadise
July 18th, 2012 at 8:26 am

That looks like a great place to shop, all under one roof. Brilliant!

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- quotidianhudsonriver
  July 18th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
  
  Thanks for visiting! It is a fun place.
  
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ailsapm
July 18th, 2012 at 1:40 am

Excellent, I will be sure to seek out the Jean Talon Market if I’m in Montreal. And I love that poem, I’ve never heard it before but it makes me giggle

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- quotidianhudsonriver
  July 18th, 2012 at 6:37 pm
  
  My mom used to chant it to me…
  
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