It's actually not even good for them. It's entirely for the presentation to the humans that buy them. It makes them spoil quicker and is also just a waste of water.
On the upside: They feel pretty good as a human on a hot day.
I don't either, but I am in California and I don't know if it's because they also learned it makes shit spoil quicker (literally I learned this from working at a grocery store that had them), or if it's a legal thing to conserve water.
I'm in the Bay Area and we still have them in high and low end grocery stores. At Safeway they even still play the fun little thunder sounds before it starts.
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
People were upset they added misters to Auswitz for the museum tourists? It's not like they were spraying them with lethal poison like they used to at that location. Sounds like a moment where it only was weird because people made it weird.
One Jewish visitor said that she had lost many relatives to the Holocaust at Auschwitz and that the water misters looked like the showers are family had had to endure before going to the gas chamber. Many Israeli visitors who have experienced the water misters have criticised them as distasteful.
Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.
Oh sure. They’ve spend millions of years sedimenting to form or metamorphasizing in the warm molten bosom of Mother Earth, just so you can selfishly stuff your gob with their crunchy goodness. I hope you are happy with yourself.
Scientists have determined that rocks have souls. This revelation came on the heels of the discovery last month that souls definitely exist.
The only ethical move is to starve.
On a more serious note, plants communicate with each other through the plant version of pheromones, and some utilize an underground internet / postal service of sorts made of fungi mycelium called a mycelial network. They can even use this network to pass nutrients to plants that are in need.
Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesn't stop making milk.
I can't see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. It's what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.
we had these 20 years ago in my country. but these got removed because they create bacteria and lower shelf life by a lot. nothing good about them at all. just extra cost and work.
They are still around here where I live but they are kinda needed since its dry here (under 20% mostly). Without them the produce desicates. But in moist places? Why?
I haven't seen these for over a decade now, they used to be in most stores but it was pretty obvious it created a lot of issues because of all the "moistness". Good that they got rid of it, at least here in Sweden.
As a child I used to be borderline obsessed with the misters and the overall smell and vibe of the produce sections. Always told my mom I wanted to work in one. Thirty years later, purely by circumstance, I manage one for a living. It's not quite what I dreamed of, given that stores in 2025 are no longer poorly lit nor smell like mothballs and old air conditioning/refrigerant, but I still enjoy my career.
Where I'm at they're usually a glorified lean-to. Ran by either a kid or an old, never anyone in-between. Or just the honor system. Usually has excellent produce for real cheap.
Yeah I live too far from farmland to take advantage. Our farmers market is expensive but the stuff they sell is fantastic. I get ferns there every year. Cheaper than Lowe's and higher quality. I boycott Home Depot so it's nice to have options.
In the US a “farmers market” typically means that a city or town shuts down a few streets and farmers come from their rural farms to the city center to sell their produce. The prices can trend high, because the focus tends to be on quality and known provenence.
What the parent poster is describing is not farmers markets, but farm stands. You have to go to them instead of them coming to you, which is where the savings come from. It might not be worth it depending on the value of your time.
We have a huge Farmers Market open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Its about 10 minutes from my home. Really good deals on fruits, vegetable & baked goods. The deals are even better if you show up about an hour before closing. In today's economy you have to watch every penny spent.
And later in the summer you can find pick up trucks parked at the side of the road offering sweet corn for far less than you would ever be able to get at a grocery store
On a horribly hot summer day in Australia, I've been known to hang out in the vege section of the supermarket for the misters before heading off to buy deeply unhealthy things that taste better
Produce was my first job and we used to come in at 5am and clean these occasionally. They get jelly dangly bits hanging from below the veggies that you just spray off and then wash. It was an interesting event.
I think a coma is distinct from a vegetative state. If I'm remembering correctly, a vegetative state involves some disease or injury that has done permanent damage in a way that the person involved will never "wake up".
It's actually not even good for them. It's entirely for the presentation to the humans that buy them. It makes them spoil quicker and is also just a waste of water.
On the upside: They feel pretty good as a human on a hot day.
I never really see them in use anymore.
I don't either, but I am in California and I don't know if it's because they also learned it makes shit spoil quicker (literally I learned this from working at a grocery store that had them), or if it's a legal thing to conserve water.
I'm in the Bay Area and we still have them in high and low end grocery stores. At Safeway they even still play the fun little thunder sounds before it starts.
i still refuse to believe it's a real thing anywhere at any time
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
People were upset they added misters to Auswitz for the museum tourists? It's not like they were spraying them with lethal poison like they used to at that location. Sounds like a moment where it only was weird because people made it weird.
Nothing like a shower at Auschwitz.
I wonder just how tone deaf you have to be to install water fixtures designed to provide comfort at fucking Auschwitz of all places.
Make sure to tie your shoelaces together so you can find both your shoes after!
I hate this thing. Love our local market, but they use these and it's so annoying to have soggy everything.
Veggies weigh more and thus cost more? Win/win. Oh wait...
This! These things are a big pet peeve for me. Such a waste.
It probably feels a lot more like this
Contrary to what you may believe, you don't have to envy these vegetables and can indeed take a shower yourself.
Thats a misting not a shower tho. Also those veggies aint paying for that water.
Yeah but I’ll never feel as good as those vegetables.
You mean cut and dead?
Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.
More meat it is then. Save the vegetables!
I'm not vegetarian because I like animals. I'm vegetarian because I hate plants.
Guess I'll just eat rocks then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh sure. They’ve spend millions of years sedimenting to form or metamorphasizing in the warm molten bosom of Mother Earth, just so you can selfishly stuff your gob with their crunchy goodness. I hope you are happy with yourself.
Scientists have determined that rocks have souls. This revelation came on the heels of the discovery last month that souls definitely exist.
The only ethical move is to starve.
On a more serious note, plants communicate with each other through the plant version of pheromones, and some utilize an underground internet / postal service of sorts made of fungi mycelium called a mycelial network. They can even use this network to pass nutrients to plants that are in need.
They're minerals, Grostleton.
Awesome! I'ma start a death metal band and put celery and brussel sprouts on the album covers.
Not metal, but here's some Vegetable Soul: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKQjHwVc8b0
That’s fucking metal
No, THIS is fucking metal!
You should hang out by the veggie tray at parties.
That's how I met my partner. We both love dips. We could talk or not talk about dips all day long and then do it again tomorrow.
There is a religion called Jainism that actually tries to avoid harming even tiny organisms and plants. As such they avoid eating things like root vegetables that require the entire plant to be killed in order to harvest them.
Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesn't stop making milk.
I can't see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. It's what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.
Fuck you vegetables, you little delicious motherfuckers. I will eat your dicks and corpses.
DOOM music intensifies
we had these 20 years ago in my country. but these got removed because they create bacteria and lower shelf life by a lot. nothing good about them at all. just extra cost and work.
Was wondering why we don't have this in Europe, and the answer is once again, common fucking sense.
I've seen them last year in france at some places unfortunately.
They are still around here where I live but they are kinda needed since its dry here (under 20% mostly). Without them the produce desicates. But in moist places? Why?
It was in a coastal region.
That's gotta be one hell of a moist machine salesman. It would be like trying to sell me a dehumidifier.
what a loss for vegetable welfare
Be the vegetable you want to be
OK
Dead vegetable reproductive organs.
Getting that brocussy
Vegan gore
oh
that's gore
that's gore of my comfort food
Now in damp!
Get your Brassica out for the lads
I've been on some patios in the summer that actually do this. It does feel very good.
I haven't seen these for over a decade now, they used to be in most stores but it was pretty obvious it created a lot of issues because of all the "moistness". Good that they got rid of it, at least here in Sweden.
I feel like "the moistness" ought to be a shitty B-movie world-ending blight.
"Grandpa was killed by the moistness; he shouldn't have even been in that valley without his power dryers"
The real moistness was the friends we killed along the way.
Still super common in Australia.
As a child I used to be borderline obsessed with the misters and the overall smell and vibe of the produce sections. Always told my mom I wanted to work in one. Thirty years later, purely by circumstance, I manage one for a living. It's not quite what I dreamed of, given that stores in 2025 are no longer poorly lit nor smell like mothballs and old air conditioning/refrigerant, but I still enjoy my career.
It does feel good.
Source: I am a vegetable.
I don't think you need to be a vegetable to enjoy a nice mist.
The equivalent for a person would be decapitated heads in the shower.
Seems like a complete flip to what we have here in the UK, Aldi is by far cheaper than any farmers market I have seen.
There's a big difference between a farm stand and a farmers market.
Farm shops are also really expensive here
Like, a farm shop at the farm itself, or on the side of the road nearby? That's what a farm stand is.
Don't think I have ever really seen one of those. Maybe a sign like eggs 50p each but again that is pretty expensive and it was years ago
Where I'm at they're usually a glorified lean-to. Ran by either a kid or an old, never anyone in-between. Or just the honor system. Usually has excellent produce for real cheap.
Yeah I live too far from farmland to take advantage. Our farmers market is expensive but the stuff they sell is fantastic. I get ferns there every year. Cheaper than Lowe's and higher quality. I boycott Home Depot so it's nice to have options.
Besides being a soulless mega corp who only exist to serve the unholy gods of greed and gluttony, what's so bad about home Depot?
In the US a “farmers market” typically means that a city or town shuts down a few streets and farmers come from their rural farms to the city center to sell their produce. The prices can trend high, because the focus tends to be on quality and known provenence.
What the parent poster is describing is not farmers markets, but farm stands. You have to go to them instead of them coming to you, which is where the savings come from. It might not be worth it depending on the value of your time.
Most farmers markets I've seen have dedicated space, no street shutting necessary. There's one open every day a couple miles from my house.
Farm shops are usually even more expensive.
Same here, and those Aldi cucumbers are like 1,50€ or a little more.
We have a huge Farmers Market open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Its about 10 minutes from my home. Really good deals on fruits, vegetable & baked goods. The deals are even better if you show up about an hour before closing. In today's economy you have to watch every penny spent.
And later in the summer you can find pick up trucks parked at the side of the road offering sweet corn for far less than you would ever be able to get at a grocery store
On a horribly hot summer day in Australia, I've been known to hang out in the vege section of the supermarket for the misters before heading off to buy deeply unhealthy things that taste better
As a young adult of the 90's all I see here is Legionnaire's disease.
It has to be sat for a while, outside of certain temperatures, for that.
Produce was my first job and we used to come in at 5am and clean these occasionally. They get jelly dangly bits hanging from below the veggies that you just spray off and then wash. It was an interesting event.
I don't think you would feel that much being a vegetable, but since no person has ever come back from the vegetable state you just can't tell.
https://listverse.com/2015/01/10/10-amazing-stories-of-people-who-woke-up-from-comas/
Sure people have.
I think a coma is distinct from a vegetative state. If I'm remembering correctly, a vegetative state involves some disease or injury that has done permanent damage in a way that the person involved will never "wake up".
The cutting your legs off for display part?
It’s quite warm in the north east of the U.K. at the minute, please do this to me.
Another terrifying british 24°C heat wave?
Yep. I like 12 degrees C with a decent chance of rain.
Spritz me harder daddy
They hate it, one even tried to chase me but luckily I picked up the wooden ramp before I got out of the store.