My Third Day at the Market

I had a respectable day at the market yesterday. I sold many pints, including the last of my Mint Chocolate Chip.*

One of my neighbors at the market said foot traffic yesterday was about half of what it usually is. No doubt because of the intense heat and humidity.

I got helpful feedback on the Lemon Verbena Vegan Frozen Dessert: The flavor wasn't strong enough. After a customer who tried it said that, I tried it again. She was right. It had tasted enough like LV to make it salesworthy when it came out of the machine, but it must have faded in the freezer. One customer after that told me she liked it—maybe she was being kind or maybe she got a particularly verbena-rific bite—but another one agreed with the first customer's assessment. I won't take it back to the market next week.

I sold a Blackberry VFD to a woman whose son has a severe dairy allergy. Another woman praised my Blackberry and Chocolate-Ginger VFDs. Her husband has a restricted diet that prevents him from eating oils, so the refined coconut oil was a deal-breaker. I told them I'd tried making my VFDs with only the two nondairy beverages as my liquids but the texture wasn't creamy enough.

Will stopped by again with his step-daughter, whose name I will ask for again and memorize next time I see them.

My favorite customer of the day was an older fellow whose mind was blown by the concept of blueberry and lime together, in an ice cream. (I didn't dream up that combination, but I added the twist of using lime basil as a component. That link goes to my personal blog, which I've been writing since 2005. Back before Facebook, when blogging was still a big thing.) He tried it and enjoyed it and said he would come back with his wife, but he didn't. And that's OK. Maybe I'll see them next week.

One of the market volunteers was wearing a T-shirt from a used-book store in Massachusetts with the slogan "Books you don't need in a place you can't find" on the back. Ha!

*I initially wrote that I'd also sold the last of my Blackberry VFD, but I later saw I had some more at home in my big chest freezer; I'd only sold all of the pints of Blackberry I'd taken to the market.