Howdy, SANETters--
While we're on the subjects of John Stossel, Dennis Avery,
generically mutated reportage on organics, rah-rah-woof-woof media
coverage of GMO foods, corporations' mooed hosannas for WTO, et
bloody cetera, I thought some of you might need a laugh. Please be my
guest, pull up a chair, spread your napkin across your lap, and enjoy:
The Gallery of Regrettable Food
http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
As we in sustainable ag try to figure out just what happened to food
in this nation (and thus, increasingly, the world), we might bear in
mind that advertisers, publishers, and other corporations were doing
demented things to our fodder ever since the Ad Man met the Food
Producer. Thus this site.
Browsing through this collection I laughed till I ran out of tears.
The compiler of the Gallery of Regrettable Food is James Lileks, a
Fargo-born columnist for the Mpls. /Star-Tribune/. Among many other
things at his Web site, he offers:
A virtual visit to The Gobbler (motel and restaurant at the Johnson
Creek exit of I-94; now sadly defunct)
http://lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
The humor hits me in the same Upper-Midwestern-humor spot as the
Madison-published newspaper, /The Onion/. Both have the distinctive
regional combination of pointed social satire and genuine affection
that can make pasture walks, field days, county fairs, and county
board meetings so enjoyable for academics, Extensionists, and other
city/university/professional folk--provided they don't take
themselves too seriously. First, there's the deflating of pretense
and classism. Second, the genuine innocence--for we can only make
satire on that which we, at some level, truly love. Or at least
expect better of.
peace
misha
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Michele Gale-Sinex
Home office: 415-504-6474 (504-MISH)
Home office fax: Same as above, phone first for enabling
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On the Borscht Scale--zero being NO BORSCHT and 10 being
BORSCHT-O-PLENTY, I give them a big zero. Keep in mind that
I don't like borscht, so zero is good. --Mister 3D
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