Nathalie Chiva > wrote:

> Outside market (the Lausanne market, huge on Saturday mornings,
> smaller on Wednesday mornings), open all year long. It's not 100% a
> farmer's market, some stands are real farmers, others are resellers,
> but what they resell is much better and fresher stuff than the
> stupidmarkets. You can find vegetables and fruit, of course, but also
> meat (my favorite butcher is there) and poultry, cheese (exceptional
> quality), good Italian cured meat products, even fish from the Lake of
> Geneva, good olives, honey, stuff like that.

That is exactly the kind of markets we have here and in nearby towns.
On Carlsplatz in Düsseldorf, some exotic stuff is sold and the prices
are high on the whole - often quite as high as in high-end food halls
and supermarkets - and sometimes as high as anywhere (including
speciality and "gourmet" groceries), one of the butchers and a couple of
other stalls being examples (what they sell *is* truly high-quality
stuff, though). There are also stalls selling stuff not generally found
elsewhere, like horse meat or goose eggs - or some prepared,
ready-to-eat foods, like porchetta. In smaller town markets, there is
usually no exotic stuff and produce is often rather cheaper and
sometimes better quality.

Victor