Ode to Central Market

I'm really beginning to enjoy this blogging thing, so I've decided that for the month of October, my only goal will be to post more frequently. Inspired by my favorite place to spend money in Austin, I give you:

Ode to Central Market

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

You sell things like Organic Hatch Green Chili Corn Chips

Cheese that smells like dirty gym socks

But tastes delicious

And wild salmon from the Pacific-- never farmed

Because I care about things like that

You lure me in with your artful displays

Of heirloom tomatoes and ten kinds of potatoes

And, oh! The free samples

Yet you do not judge

When I throw Diet Coke

Or non-organic toilet paper

into my cart

Central Market, you complete me

You make grocery shopping fun

You even have those tiny two-tiered shopping carts

That maneuver so easily around corners

I am forever yours

(For my friends back home, Central Market is the perfect hybrid of Whole Foods and Metropolitan Market-- all the gourmet deliciousness, but less pretentious. Plus they actually carry some normal products [e.g., Diet Coke] and have sales that make the prices reasonable. If only they would expand to the west coast!)