Vegetal Abstinence

As long as I have been in produce sales (27 years and counting)  it never ceases to amaze how the demand for vegetables of any kind drops like a rock during the week after Thanksgiving.  If it was the once a year type veggies like rutabagas or parsnips I could understand.  After all, almost everyone feels constrained to make a dish of mashed rutabagas which is shunned by all but your crazy uncle, but what about broccoli, or spinach or any number of other normally in demand commodities?  Even rationalizing that people are eating leftovers doesn't make sense.  Anything green would have been thrown out by Saturday or Sunday anyway.  Perhaps the mostly vegetable hating American Id is throw into a rage from having to consume a 6 month ration of the hated green stuff.  There follows a two week meat and carbohydrate binge to purge the system.  Then it's on to the big Christmas dinner which  doesn't feature the surfeit of veggies associated with Thanksgiving.  The obligatory veggie trays with dip can be safely ignored, at least until New Year's Eve.  Anyway, the above theory probably makes as much sense as any other explanation for the dearth of sales this time of year.  It's my story and I'm sticking to it.