TKC SUNDAY SPECIAL!!! CITY MARKET WEEKEND PRODUCE SHORTAGE LEAVES KANSAS CITY SHOPPERS DISAPPOINTED!!!
We're getting word of one of the oldest Kansas City institutions in trouble after a disastrous weekend shortage that left hundreds if not thousands of locals disappointed and signaled a local tradition in danger of neglect.
Here's a quick word from a Kansas City insider taking stock of the situation.
"A failure for the city. People at the City Market with nothing to buy and no fruit vendors in two aisles."
This might seem like a minor detail for suburbanites who are trained to buy whatever GMOs the box store super markets are pushing BUT real Kansas City denizens are accustomed to fresh fruit on the weekends from the City Market given that the tradition has endured since 1857.
Now, with streetcar development and so much focus on luxury condo subsidy in and around the loop, it seems that downtown developers are forgetting about what really distinguishes Kansas City from any other place in the world as the weekend fresh fruit and vegetable shopping tradition begins to fade.
Developing . . .
I agree with you that the city market is a grand Kansas City tradition. There has always been an issue with the management of the place but the market has withstood the test of time. Does the current management need a kick in the pants? Probably. But the work of preserving the market know also involves economic development.
ReplyDeleteLook around. It's only going to get worse.
ReplyDeleteStreetcar surrounds the city market like a noose and it'll choke the businesses out of that place soon enough.
The decline of City Market started out councilman wagner. He's now Sly's second in command. that's the root of the problem.
ReplyDeleteSly is the root, followed by Russ Johnson and the Scott Wagner.
DeleteWho are the vendors that were running low on produce & why?
ReplyDeleteGMOs would be a nice change for suburbanites. Most of them just buy carbs, meat and butter from the grocery store.
ReplyDeleteToot toot. No fruit? What a hoot! Why not plant Victory gardens in all the newly-vacant lots?
ReplyDeleteKansas City: Ready for the 1940s.
Thats why the reinstalled the toy train.
Delete7:15: And you would know that...how?
ReplyDeleteTroy and Sly said the train would foster "economic development".....I guess the City Market doesn't count in their eyes.
ReplyDeleteI went to a market in the burbs and got everything I wanted.
ReplyDeleteWhere was that may I ask
DeleteWhat time did the insider get there 7:00 PM?
ReplyDeleteTony's as phony as anyone else playing media person but at least he's entertaining and off beat.
ReplyDeleteKeeping with A TKC tradition thats a nice set of melons Larry's sporting there. Nothing fake about those.
ReplyDelete8:17 Plus, Bewbs
ReplyDeleteSo did the market run out of artisan rooftop grown kale 30 minutes after opening or something?
ReplyDeleteIs Winslow's BBQ still down there. Did it get any better with the management change.....or is still nasty?
ReplyDeleteI don't do the City Market or go to Planters anymore just for the simple reason I don't do Kansas City Mo unless it's absolutely necessary and only in daylight and carrying a gun. By the way, I hate carrying a gun, so I tend to avoid high crime areas so I don't have to carry one.The Golden Ghetto has many nice farmers markets if such is what I feel, I need.
ReplyDeleteYou're being STUPID and CRYING WOLF ... AGAIN! This time of year two of the three sheds are ALWAYS empty of veggie and fruit vendors. It's called WINTER, stupid! Everything will be back to normal in a couple weeks. That's called SPRING!
ReplyDelete9:32 we use to go down there all year long.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^Sez a hipster who drives his Prius from downtown to Overland Park to get organic kale at Whole Foods.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^This is for 9:32, who has never been to the City Market.
ReplyDeleteI have been going to the market since I have been 10 years old and now I am 60 have never seen two aisles empty on a Saturday and winter has nothing to do with it there where fruit vendors there just not enough. It's bad management plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteThe toy tootem scootem has kilt all off of the fruits! It's a toy train that's too blame! I heard it runs off abortion end baby parts that planner parenthooter sells to them and it caused also all the Zikka virus and that's why agenda 21 is killing all the whitez! Clinkadunkybangbang ck so smert
ReplyDeleteA bit early in the year isn't it?
ReplyDelete9:32, don't bother Tony with facts. Like Winter.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, Superdave, you may (or may not) have gone down there all year long, but do you realize what you were buying in the winter? Produce imported from somewhere else.
Idiot, there is not much of anything growing...ITS NOT EVEN SPRING
ReplyDeleteThere are dozens of farmers' markets throughout the metro and most of them are well-stocked and as interesting as the KCMO River Market.
ReplyDeleteMost people don't buy fresh fruits and vegetables with a sense of history involved. They look for freshness, quality, price, and convenience.
Just another example of pining for the "good old days" in the 1950s when ladies wearing their gloves took the Strang Line trollies from Overland Park to downtown to shop, have lunch, and be entertained.
The '50s were a long time ago and aren't coming back.
All aboard!
Another KCPD fail.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap! Get your asses off the couch! Grow your own damn food so that you understand the seasons. Planting around here is March 15 for spring harvest. April 15 ain't just tax day it is also an important time to plant for summer harvest. The only locally grown crops to get now at the market are over-wintered carrot, onions and potatoes. Hey old timer you were buying produce from Mexico, Central America and some Cali, Florida fruits. Still eating produce that I harvested and put up in the summer and fall. Strawberry plants are stretching their legs and will soon start forming fruit. Etc.. Etc..
ReplyDelete10:39 were you born that stupid?
ReplyDeleteAll our produce, for the most part, is trucked in from somewhere else. I swear there are truly some really ignorant, stupid, motherfuckers, reading these stories.
By the way shit stain, lots of people use to go down there every Saturday morning early to get fresh flown in seafood that hadn't been frozen yet. I say your stupid ass has never been to the City Market
City Market to most people is spelled, Price Chopper or Hen House.
ReplyDeleteI miss the old Quay times.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^ Word
ReplyDeleteyou are all frutiy
ReplyDeleteScary Larry can squeeze my melons any time.
ReplyDeletesigned,
Toni Bones
INVESTIGATIVE!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFruit vendor deliveries were on their way to the City Market when they were sideswiped by a ToyTrain streetcar!
City Hall towed away their trucks and issued citations with fines.
TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! NO LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE IN EARLY MARCH!!! SEASONS RUMORED TO BE THE REASON!!!
ReplyDeleteLarry always liked squeezing our melons especially Erin when she was preggers and lactating.
ReplyDeleteSigned,
Lara, Kelly, Erin and Karen
Has anyone ever heard of greenhouses? Didn't think so.
ReplyDelete". . . fresh flown in seafood"
ReplyDeleteNow that's an oxymoron if there ever was one. And one of the dumbest things ever written on TKC, and that's saying a lot.
"Has anyone ever heard of greenhouses?"
ReplyDeleteSure have. You think there are enough of them within a 100 mile radius of KC, covering hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of acres to keep just the City Market stocked with the locally grown produce of all kinds that attracts the shoppers there during the summer and fall?
Replace it with a big dense market rate apartment building and they will come!
ReplyDeleteYou get out much 3:30, or is posting stupid non-factual shit more to your liking?
ReplyDeleteFor the love of God, Tony, STOP YOUR BITCHING.
ReplyDeleteThe people that have gotten the sense of a growing season, have it correct.
Or blame it on the immigrants.
The adage of GET YOUR ASS OUTSIDE AND PLAY WITH THE OTHER KIDS rings true. It will give you a sense of productive sense of play instead of the unrelenting misery you find in everything.
A life of blogging for dismay will get you nothing. Satisfying your need for attention will be therapeutic, but in the long run, will leave you old and alone.
But if that's your goal, good luck with that.
3:24, you're no doubt the head of the dumbest things ever written on TKC, and that's saying a lot.
ReplyDeleteChinatown Food Market
Greater Downtown, Rivermarket
202 Grand Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64106
Phone number (816) 472-6363
Sure can buy fresh fish down by city market
ReplyDeleteChinatown Located in the river market area, we specialized in live and fresh seafood, exotic fruits and vegetables, meats, and so much more! Our weekly shipment of seafood, meats, and produce …
I went to the city market this afternoon and there was plenty of everything. However it did appear that the prices were was higher than normal. I suspect the old shortage price hike scam
ReplyDeleteThere has never been a shortage of fruits in Kansas City. Proof of this can be seen in this historical film footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTZ5tqas1k
ReplyDelete"Our weekly shipment of seafood, meats, and produce …"
ReplyDeleteBWAAAHAHAHA!
Isn't that kind of like a weekly shipment of fresh donuts? By the end of the week, they ain't so fresh.