Comments on: Market Baskets…

By: lenny dunn

lenny dunn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:50:37 +0000

Hi Sir,Mrs
Am Mr Lenny and i will like to order some french market bags from your shop.I will appreciate if you can email me with the types and prizes you have in stock as well as the method of payment you accept so i can know the quantity to order.Thank you.

Best Regards,
Mr Lenny

By: edee

edee — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:03:05 +0000

MM, not only bayongs and basket more practical, they’re environment friendly as well…. here in Ireland, to encourage people to use re-usable bags , you pay 15cent for every plastic shopping bag you use, and that 15cent goes to an environmental fund…..

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:17:40 +0000

I recently came across a basket on wheels in the Williams -Sonoma catalogue. Its about $99 and considering its dimensions, i was quoted that it will cost $150 to ship via Johnny Air Cargo. Its absolutely perfect for the Saturday or Sunday Market so I don’t have to keep sending parcels back to the car but am not willing to pay $250 for a basket.. anyone know of a place we could have it made? How about a MarketManila Basket?!! MarketMan can venture into licensed products!

By: Marinel

Marinel — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:42:36 +0000

I think it all depends on the guy. I dated a Filipino who wouldn’t be caught dead carrying my purse, let alone be seen carrying a bayong at a local wet market. It’s pretty sad. But I’m now married to a white man who doesn’t mind carrying my purse or being seen with me buying chicken feet and salmon head. I’m glad there are men like MM who don’t mind carrying a basket loaded with meats and vegetables. I think that’s very sexy, eh? What I often wonder, though, is what people think when MM takes pictures of the food before consuming them. :-)

By: Doddie Householder from Korea

Doddie Householder from Korea — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:04:41 +0000

Kate, no biggie. Jean was right. Besides, I find a man (whether he is Filipino or american) holding a lady’s purse very sexy. I mean, he is male, but masculine enough to hold his lady’s bag. Now that’s sex appeal. ;)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:02:50 +0000

Also, oddly, in Europe, particularly for market baskets, the usage is not gender based. In fact, the first time I tried to buy the french market basket in Paris, I couldn’t find one in stores but kept seeing both men and women walking around with them…I nearly tried to buy one off the back of a Parisian man but my wife thought I had gone bonkers and I didn’t even try… Baskets and handbags are not the same thing at all… And since we are on the topic, I have several of those heavy canvas LL Bean bags as well to take food supplies out to the beach on weekends…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:48:57 +0000

Kate et al, there is a photo of my Spanish baskets in the posts on Barcelona shopping with the hat as the opining photo, I think… A bayong aor basket is a whole lot more practical than all those plastic bags they give you… or in Baguio, you can hire kids to carry your bags when they get too heavy!

By: erleen

erleen — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:05:55 +0000

Now I know what to look for when spying the market aisles for you Marketman.

Should I find some guy with a basket, I will definitely think it is you and immediately grab you to ask for an autograph…and a picture maybe. =)

By: Jean

Jean — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:16:29 +0000

Kate, don’t think Doddie was aiming her comment towards you, just the way couples handle things. As that blondie back in the 50’s and 60’s (Doris Day) sang in her songs, “Que sera sera”.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:56:50 +0000

Didn’t mean to diss American males, Doddie. :-) I just think Filipino men don’t get the credit they deserve vis-a-vis the generally good press Americans get in its former colony, the Philippines.