While many citizens of Serbia pass by stalls overflowing with fruit and vegetables every day without paying much attention to scenes that are completely ordinary to them, a Briton named James, who has been living in Serbia for some time, claims that this is precisely one of the country’s greatest treasures.
In a video he posted on social media, James showed the atmosphere at a local market and his genuine amazement at the freshness, quality and variety of products he found there.
As he walked past stalls packed with strawberries, raspberries, peaches, cherries and fresh vegetables, the Briton could not hide his surprise.
“If you are anywhere north of the Balkans or west of Prague, you do not have this,” James said at the beginning of the video.
He explained that such markets are rarely seen today in much of Western Europe, where the supply of fresh produce is generally limited to supermarkets.
“The selection of produce here is insane! Honestly, I just can’t get over it and I have no idea what to buy first,” he said with a smile while browsing the stalls.
According to him, he had occasionally seen similar scenes in Greece or in certain places in the Czech Republic, but never on such a scale and with so much fresh food gathered in one place.
For him, as well as for many people from the West, this way of shopping represents something that has almost disappeared.
“If you’re in the West, maybe you remember this from the 1980s, if you’re lucky. I remember going to places like this with my mom when I was a child, but they definitely don’t exist there anymore,” James said.
In the end, he said that scenes like these are exactly what remind him every day why he enjoys living in the Balkans.
“This is absolutely incredible,” the Briton concluded.
His video attracted the attention of numerous social media users, and many agreed that people in Serbia are often not even aware of how much of a privilege their markets, local producers and fresh food available at their fingertips actually are in much of the world.
While shopping in many countries is increasingly reduced to the shelves of large retail chains, markets across Serbia still offer products directly from producers, seasonal fruit and vegetables, as well as the authentic spirit of the local community that foreigners are increasingly recognizing as one of the greatest values of life in the Balkans.
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Source: Kurir.rs Foto: Instagram @jamesinserbia