Title translation seems weird this time, but I tried Google and DeepL. Google says “and the preserving”, DeepL says “and the canning”.
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I’m not sure why people don’t understand.
You harvest food during harvesting season. You end up with a lot of it. When you have a lot of food that will spoil later, you preserve it in various ways, like by making pickles and jams.
She is holding a bunch of containers. She is obviously preparing to preserve food in the containers. She finds a woman selling a bunch of food. She wants the food, but her hands are already full. She smartly decides to use her hat the same way the old lady was carrying the food, which is a common thing to do in certain countries.
That guy carrying all that bread with the seagulls in the background gives me anxiety.
what should give you anxiety is that my man there grabs that bread from the bakery at 5am and walks around town until it’s all sold, so its constantly open to the elements and everyone eats it. He handles the money and all the simit.
The comic tends to have a twist/subversion/alternate meaning and not just a literal reading.
Is the joke not that she repurposed the fancy hat as a basket?
That’s what the way I took it for sure.
The seller sells the apples, not the bucket & apples, hence the improvised bag.
It is possible that the hat is the twist part.
I think the twist is, as Mark with a Z says, reusing her (fancy) hat as a basket.
Usually people carrying goods on their head are selling the good, and she is the consumer of the good, so it’s ironic.
No pun on this one.
Maybe the interesting part: back in those days the sellers didn’t provide any bags or baskets for the purchase.
Maybe she got the idea of how to carry more when all her bags were already full.