a wok in the park

[footnotefetish]

This is how stupid I am: I'm around so many feminists all of the time that I had no idea how many people still use douche. I was just under the impression that it had gone away like the chastity belt. I knew it was probably still used in parts of the world where people like to practice that old-time patriarchy (perhaps in the South, for example

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[greeniezona]

OMG the menu at Lovin Spoonfuls looks so good! I must go there now! We actually tried to go there this weekend, but it was closed and I was sad. We went to Fronimos (sp?) instead. Wasn't it you that recommended that place to me? The husband and I both really liked it.

[footnotefetish]

Lovin' Spoonfuls doesn't have dinner hours yet, but they are open for breakfast and lunch. They do plan to open for dinner eventually--and they will also have patio seating at some point. It was really good--and the prices weren't bad for a completely vegan restaurant.

As for Fronimos, I've never even been there, so I probably wouldn't have recommended it to you, unless I was possessed by a spirit, in an altered state, or having some sort of schizophrenic episode.

Vegan!

[flw]

When I first started visiting Vegetarian and Vegan restaurants about three or four years ago, they were set apart by the fact that they were much, much cheaper than normal places. Now, it is a frou-frou chi-chi affectation. Veganism is a badge of the Lexus-Liberal elite. It's pissing me off, to be honest, it used to be sort of where poverty meets hippy-dippy "Buddhism". Now it's all about Toyota Prius in the drive thru lane for 40 bucks a person.

[footnotefetish]

God damn it--why did I have to miss the era when vegetarian food was dirt cheap? I guess the stuff I make for myself at home is probably cheaper than what meat-eaters make for themselves. I can throw something together with a few dollars worth of beans, rice, and vegetables and eat it for a couple of days.

I used to work for Wild Oats, and they consistently look for places with a high median income to establish new locations. It used to make me sick to see how many people would come to my location in 40- or 50-grand SUVs, rendering it a bit pointless to buy "Fair Trade" or "earth-friendly" products by the time they've hauled them to their gated communities in their damn yuppie-mobiles.

I'm not sure what to make of the phenomenon. Maybe this is how yuppies buy their indulgences nowadays. They put in their token support of "sustainability" and "social responsibility" and ease their guilt for being a bunch of privileged butt-holes.

[flw]

See the film How to Get a Head in Advertising for my views on the matter. There are a few converging cultures that lay claim to the Vegan/Vegetarian thing. I am in favor of all of them. There are the poor Hippies, the Buddhists, the old-Schoolers, the Lexus Left, the Health Nuts... everybody's got their fingers in the pot

[footnotefetish]

I'll definitely look for that film. I'm intrigued by the title!

[flw]

In the film, one of the characters... the "hero's" wife's best friend is constantly flitting back and forth between fads. And the fads aren't limited to diets (she goes from a vegan diet to an all meat diet at one point and this ages before Atkins) she flits around like a classic rich Lexus Lefty.

[footnotefetish]

Yeah, I'll definitely have to watch that. I swear, it was like the Diet of the Month Club at Wild Oats. One month it would be raw foods, and the next it would be a grain-free or alkaline diet.

[flw]

I so desperately want the inside scoop on those people for some reason. They are so manipulable. I despise them, and yet I want their money desperately. The whole candle thing... GOD! What people will pay for a fuckin' candle!

[le_femme01]

When was vegetarian food ever cheap? I think you are mistaking fast food for vegetarian food.

Take it from the life-long vegetarian.

[footnotefetish]

It makes sense that vegetarian food would be cheaper, since fewer resources go into producing it. Maybe there was once a time when the world was more sensible.

Nah, that just doesn't seem likely.