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firenze_mercato_centrale2.jpg (132475 bytes)    Butcher at the market.  Some lovely tripe in the left foreground!  Luckily you can't see it too well!

firenze_mercato_centrale5.jpg (82171 bytes)    All different kinds of mushrooms were available.  My favourite vegetable (are they a vegetable or are fungi classified differently?)  We have vowed to go back in September which is the mushroom season.  We want to see the mushroom police, who have been trained especially to tell poisonous ones from ones that are ok to eat.

firenze_mercato_centrale6.jpg (110874 bytes)    You can buy all kinds of oils and vinegars.

firenze_mercato_cne.jpg (236889 bytes)    Fruit and veg looks delicious and is beautifully displayed.

firenze_piggies.jpg (169638 bytes)    firenze_piggy.jpg (102211 bytes)    We found this rather grotesque display at a butchers that specialised in hams and various porky type products.  He had the weirdest stuff in his shop, including wild boar hams with the fur still on!