Peter Singer, don't fail me now.

[goteam]

I'm reading The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason, and it might be my favorite piece of "when in doubt, don't eat the animal product" propaganda to date (besides cookbooks, anyway). But I just got to the chapter on eating out, and I'm a little worried, because of this passage:

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[somechicksings]

i miss morning glory. i've eaten there 3 times & always loved it. i think i'd eat there way to much if i lived in Eugene. i need to go on another tour.

[goteam]

I would so love to feed you next time you swing through town. We had a band just a few weeks ago, and they were so thrilled to have good road food --- I know it's one of the hardest parts of traveling for me. (Note to self: become nth degree food snob and always pack lunch.)

[porfinn]

Hee hee. As corollary to waitstaff, bartenders also get, what I call, misplaced humor (I tend to find whiny patrons more amusing than irritating, but that's why I hang out where people can see me and I can see them).

Silly bar patron: "This drink doens't taste rigth?"
wise and all knowing bartender: "What is it?"
sbp: "A Long Island Ice Tea."

-- here is the hard part for a bartender-- trying to figure out what state, planet, etc. this person is from and how LITs made there (for example: on the East coast it is pretty standart to put Tequila in them, but in California that is usually a Texas Tea. Why? Don't know. Lots of LIT variations)--

bartender: "What seems to be missing?"
sbp: "Well...it...well, it doensn't taste like tea."

I then explained to the silly bar patron WHY it didn't taste like tea.

[kuddliphish]

My husband once ordered a LIT because he doesn't like to drink and it was the only thing offered that sounded like an non-alcoholic drink. One sip was all it took for him to learn better...

[harfang]

whoa. harsh. :D