{"id":410,"date":"2012-11-08T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugscout.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-11-08T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:24:51","slug":"smug-farmers-market-find-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/smugscout.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Smug Farmers’ Market Find: 11\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This week’s Smug Farmers’ Market find is not a vegetable, a fruit, a mode of display, or even putrid compost: it is a human, and it is Smug Scout’s nemesis. Now you may think it an unwise use of time to\u00a0scrutinize the Smugness of other FM shoppers, but Smug Scout simply cannot help comparing herself and her Smug habits to those of every single person she sees at every single FM she visits. Part of the very essence of Smugness is how\u00a0you rate\u00a0in a Smug closed\u00a0system that virtually no one cares about.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a person comes along whose superior Smugness\u00a0takes\u00a0 Smug Scout down a few notches. Such is the case with Smug Basket and Container Woman. While Smug Scout was selecting local organic Early Girl cherry tomatoes, of course individually, she spotted a woman who also selected them one by one, but this woman put hers in an organic cotton mesh bag. At this point Smug Scout inspected her competitor’s diverse other receptacles. In addition to\u00a0multiple organic cotton mesh bags, she also had large European plastic containers and green plastic pint containers. All of these\u00a0sat Smugly in a basket\u00a0hand crafted\u00a0by a barefoot native child in some\u00a0famine-stricken banana republic. Smug Scout felt good about her Sea Bag, a recycled sail tote made by native Maine women, until she saw the woman turn a contemptuous eye to\u00a0the Sea Bag’s\u00a0overflowing reused\u00a0plastic bag collection.\u00a0This woman did not deign to speak to Smug Scout, but if she had, this is how the conversation would have gone:<\/p>\n