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Part eight. GUIDE TO THE CITY MARKETS. Part one. Food markets in the city of Ovsk. I love to have fun, especially to eat! Common village wisdom. It sometimes happens to be pronounced like a joke… Instead of an epigraph… Mini markets in the city are formed spontaneously. Near almost every large store building — “University” — there are local residents with a small assortment of their goods: Self-grown vegetables and fruits. Sometimes dairy products are added here: Milk, sour cream, cottage cheese. Among large markets, the undisputed leader in setting low prices and trading cheap products can be called the wholesale and retail market, located on Gai Avenue. Residents from all over the city come to Gaya to stock up on sausages, cheese, butter and dairy products. The goods sold in this market are on average three to five rubles cheaper than in regular stores in the city and its suburbs. The market pavilions are located randomly. And next to everyday products there are rare and therefore expensive goods. And, in order to successfully buy in this market, which is located on Gaya Avenue, you need a certain amount of experience, which comes only with time. There are few food stalls at the market, which is located outside the city and bears the proud name of the Central Clothing Market. Buyers come to the “Central Clothing” near the airport to buy things. Therefore, products on the market serve only as “accompaniments”. They, the products, usually serve only as an accompaniment for those buyers who have been running around the shopping aisles in search of the things they need, are hungry, want to have a quick snack, so ready-to-eat products are more expensive. The market is focused on feeding customers quickly. And, often with a bright national flavor, they serve ready-made food and hot dishes in cafes and eateries with names like: “Ashkhana”, “Nem”. I didn’t find sausages for sale at this market, there were only sausages in the form of cooked, “quick” products, in hot dogs, or sausages baked in dough were also on sale. “Central Market on Damba” offers a large assortment of fresh meat. Mainly pork and beef. There are also chicken legs or in various ways, from the breast and back to the neck, butchered killed and steamed, not frozen chickens, then grouped on plastic trays according to various types of chilled or frozen meat. This market sells a large assortment of vegetables, fruits, and dairy products. The products are inexpensive, but the prices for the products are slightly higher than at the market located “on Gaya”, that is, on Gaya Avenue. But if you are going to buy fresh meat, then you should go to the Central Market near the Dam. The markets located on Kamyshinskaya Street and the market located next to Kamyshinskaya Street, on Promyshlennaya Street, are slightly smaller copies of the Central Food Market on Damba. The required range of products has been maintained. The large market on Kamyshinskaya costs a little more for all sets of products than the same products at the market on Promyshlennaya Street. The markets in the Zayazhye area are inferior to the Central Food Market on the Dam in terms of sales volumes and trade turnover, they serve their own residents, which is why the prices here are also a little bit more expensive, one and a half to two rubles, than the prices for the same product from the Central Market on the Dam. Left Bank, New Town area. There are several markets here. The largest and perhaps the cheapest market is located near a large store, a former grocery store, and now a “Universal Store”. But people are accustomed to this market and habitually call the place: Near the “twenty-seventh store.” Although the grocery store with this number disappeared a long time ago, the name for the mini-market was fixed and remained in people’s memory for this small market. Prices here are different, sometimes they fluctuate greatly, but you can still buy decent fresh meat: Pork or beef, at the Central Market near Damba for less. But I came across the exotic feijoa fruit for free sale from a private dealer — a second-hand dealer near the market and was surprised by this sale, right here. While the season for selling this fruit has already passed. And feijoa was no longer available for sale in any stores and markets in the Center and city. Or it has not yet been imported for the trade of this exotic for buyers. The product in the New City at the mini-market “around the twenty-seventh” was sold easily, hung on home table scales that stood on the floor, that is, on the sidewalk. And all the “exotics” were inexpensive, two hundred and eighty rubles per kilogram. But even at these moderate prices, it was bought and sold with great difficulty. The remaining large markets of the New City: two food markets and two more mixed markets, in which products complement things or, conversely, things, in the form of socks, tights and panties, tend to complement the sale of products to customers and appear like mushrooms after rain in the most unexpected places... These two mini-markets remain comparatively more expensive markets. The range of goods and prices in different markets is different, fluctuates, and depends on the choice of day or time of day. But the overall spread of prices in all markets is small and can be presented in one summary table. A product for which the price fluctuates little is almost always stable - honey. Its selling price is three hundred to four hundred rubles per kilogram. It’s cheaper, of course, but no one can guarantee that you will buy a natural product, and not sugar water or molasses diluted with honey and slightly tinted, in this case. Also, in the Volga region there is a large food market on the Upper Terrace. And three officially recognized mini-markets on the Lower Terrace. Recently, a group of different markets located next to the Motor Plant have been improving, operating, and gaining turnover. According to the results of an analysis of retail prices for products, it is the most inexpensive. And the nearby Yuzhny market, on the contrary, remains the most expensive market in the city. Recently, “Supermarkets”, the name of the stores is translated from English into Russian, as super markets appear both in abundance and quickly. Supermarkets strive to combine the advantages of the store and the volume of the entire market in one spacious room. How far they succeed is a complex, voluminous, and difficult question. But people continue to go or come to the market and buy food. The Saturday morning trams, packed with excited crowds, are proof. Well, yes! Everything is correct! Somewhere in distant and exotic Brazil, on the other side of the world, in distant and South America, festivals are celebrated and held in a completely different way. At those festivals, judging by the news that comes from TV or Internet news, they show a wealth of women's costumes or their, suits and dresses, almost complete absence! And then you can immediately see all the richness of the half-naked, half - covered female body with an exotic costume! It’s with them, there’s a samba and capoeira festival far away... That’s right! This is not here and not where distant and sunny, all unusual and foreign Brazil is located! And our festivals are held at home! And although they are often called just as intriguing and tempting: Autumn Fair of Agricultural and Farm Products on the theme: Festival of Vegetables: Radishes, radishes and home-grown beets. Spring fair of agricultural products on the theme: Honey Festival. And they are even accompanied by product tasting. But our local food festivals still look like complete homemade preparations: Come to the Fair, get drunk on kebabs and baked pies, cakes and pancakes that were baked all night, by all the chefs and their sympathizers throughout the region! Then buy exotic products from all the far corners of the region for future use and get pure Russian sophisticated pleasure from it!