From a distance, Berkeley lawyer Janelle Orsi thought she saw a lemonade stand.

As she biked closer, “lemonade” turned into “ soup.” A woman sat in front of her house with jars of her home cooking.

The deal went down by the Berkeley Marina. Matt Markovich handed over several hundred dollars to a man in a van and drove away 70 pounds heavier.

“It was like Miami Vice contraband,” Markovich, 36, said recently while sitting at the dining room table in his cozy Oakland home.