“The Fifth Street Fruit Market! Take it all in. Apples to zucchini.”

“Zucchini isn’t a fruit.”

“Oh, must you spoil everything with your pedantry? Culinarily it’s a vegetable, but botanically it’s a fruit. Like a tomato.”

“If you say so.”

“Come on, walk around. Just drink in those smells, those sights, the firm click of cleaver through fresh produce! Do you know what the most striking thing about this cornucopia is?

“The high prices?”

“It’s all ephemeral. It won’t last. In a week, all this fruit will be in rotting heaps or in the sewers.”