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Come to Ohio campgrounds in the summer weekends, always have a Amish family selling baked goods, they're usually pretty friendly and open to talking. And their
by thatguy0900 5y ago
Come to Ohio campgrounds in the summer weekends, always have a Amish family selling baked goods, they're usually pretty friendly and open to talking. And their baking tastes amazing.
- cheese_van 5y agoTheir baking does taste amazing. But Amish women are often employed at local farmers markets to add local color and entice tourists into buying non-Amish bakery goods. That the Amish, a fairly closed culture, are objects of tourism, has always struck me as pretty damn weird. While it may reflect a nostalgia or longing for a simpler life, I know I wouldn't last long keeping a working farm alive. Plain lives are hard work.
- thatguy0900 5y agoI wouldnt call the Amish objects of tourism, they set up shop where people already are. And it's not them, just their cooking. I don't think anyone thinks about them at all, frankly, outside of that. I remember a while ago there was a fad for prominently Amish branded/built electric heaters, and I thought that was very strange.