3 Jedi Tricks Fruits Sellers Can Do To You

Fruits. We all buy fruits at certain points of our lives. Guava. Lokam. Bananas. Pineapples. Corns (vegetables). Etc. But after a few years, one may notice the methods certain fruit sellers do to cheat you. Remember how your mom/aunt/yourself said "Cilaka, the seller said was manis but it's not!"? Well here are other tricks they can do:

1. Unmeasured Wanderers
Okay, sometimes when you are eating at a coffee shop or restaurant you will occasionally be visited by freelance street vendors. These people walk table to table selling food, Buddhist trinkets or outlandish but innovative made-in-China toys. Fruit sellers are a sub-species and have different modus operandi. Unlike toys or packaged food that can be quantified and sold at a standard price, fruits are usually sold in a plastic bag and customers are told that it's 1KG or 2KG of XXX fruit. They won't carry a scale to confirm that the plastic bag really has 1KG of fruits. EVER. So you are taking a risk of buying a bag of fruits that may be less than it's worth. Score 1 for the Dark Side!

2. Two Face
This applies to both stall AND freelance wandering fruit sellers. Some fruits are well packaged in the white netting thingy. The half part that faces you looks delicious and sexy, but once you bring it home and undress it you'll find the other half rotten. If you do this mistake often, do not go to any Red Light District.

3. Keep-Promoting-A-Certain-Fruit
Similar to "No worries, this fruit sure manis one" trick, the fruit seller might try to promote a certain fruit many times before and after your purchase. When you arrived at the stall he promoted to you durian, when you have bought rambutan he promoted durian, and when you wanted to leave he shoved durians at your face as you ran towards your vehicle. I'm sure you can tell something is wrong.

So be wary and be more careful out there brave fruit seekers!