Worst Salad on Route 66

SMS wrote:
notbob wrote:

No kidding. You can tell by the background it's your basic roadside
cafe of the type that's been serving that traditional iceberg/tomato salad
for eons. What the Hell were they expecting, beet n' pear rocket
salad? If anything, it's classic Rt 66 and is as authentic as you can
get. Stupid tourists. I bet they ride bicycles, too.

Well that's the point, which I should have mentioned. They were
_cycling_ Route 66. The woman in the video is relatively well known, or
so I thought.

"http://tinyurl.com/99s28"
"galfromdownunder.com"

I think that that salad is much worse than you'll find at most
restaurants, and I've been across the U.S. on land many times, and never
saw a salad that bad.

The problem lays in ordering the salad in the first place. Only some
nutjob from SF or NYC is going to order a salad at the meat n' three on
the small town square. An educated traveler would eat what the locals
eat, be it poke salat, field peas, or collards. Asking for a salad at
Bob's Roadside Dinette, then complaining is about as stupid and
ignorant 'merican, as going to Hong Kong and complaining that the
dumplings don't taste like McNuggets.

It's the type of overly educated ignorance that drove me from living on
the left coast. As pretty as it was, it was unenjoyable when a vast
majority of the population had neurotic food issues such as veganism by
choice, but with an inability to cook. You don't mess with food and/or
sex. Both should be enjoyed with wild abandon, and as often as possible.

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:43:25 GMT, Bob Barnett
wrote:

SMS wrote:
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYeSaNal9Mc"

Every dork with a camera now thinks they're a star

Worse, any dork with a camera thinks its OK to record people without
permission and publish the results.

I've been seeing an increasing number of businesses with signs at the
door stating that use of cameras and video recorders was strictly
prohibited on the premises. I suspect that some of this is generated
by the idiocy of people who think it would be kewl to shoot a YT video
while (for instance) racing rolling mop buckets down the aisles at
Sam's Club. (I saw a trio of fools get ejected from one for just
that. There was applause for the security guys.)
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On 2006-11-17, SMS wrote:


restaurants, and I've been across the U.S. on land many times, and never
saw a salad that bad.

Why am I not suprised.

nb

SMS wrote:

"http://tinyurl.com/99s28"
"galfromdownunder.com"

I think that that salad is much worse than you'll find at most
restaurants, and I've been across the U.S. on land many times, and never
saw a salad that bad.

If you have never seen a salad worse than this, then you have lived a
VERY sheltered life.

I've been served far worse looking salads than this over the years --
salads where the lettuce was old, brown and wilted; salads where the
greens weren't properly washed and had quite a bit of dirt on them; and
the best one, a salad where a number of small dead insects (fruit
flies?) were stuck on the leaves of the lettuce. Compared to those, a
salad made out of shreds of fresh iceberg lettuce and four slices of
tomato isn't too bad.

- Peter

In article . com,
landotter wrote:
After watching it again, the Che T-shirt completely ruins everything
and turns the whole thing into an arrogant bit of elitism.

I never thought i'd see Che and elitism mentioned in the same breath.
You're weird.

rone
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Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in

On 2006-11-17, rone wrote:

I never thought i'd see Che and elitism mentioned in the same breath.

You obviously have't been paying attention.

nb

rone wrote:
In article . com,
landotter wrote:
After watching it again, the Che T-shirt completely ruins everything
and turns the whole thing into an arrogant bit of elitism.

I never thought i'd see Che and elitism mentioned in the same breath.
You're weird.

You've never been to a college campus with a bunch of million dollar
suburbanites trying on the populist socialist look? It's all about
context. The classic Che image stenciled on a wall in Honduras is a lot
different than a pop-art Che on the chest of a white salad snob.

In article .com,
landotter wrote:
rone wrote:
In article . com,
landotter wrote:
After watching it again, the Che T-shirt completely ruins everything
and turns the whole thing into an arrogant bit of elitism.

I never thought i'd see Che and elitism mentioned in the same breath.
You're weird.

You've never been to a college campus with a bunch of million dollar
suburbanites trying on the populist socialist look? It's all about
context. The classic Che image stenciled on a wall in Honduras is a lot
different than a pop-art Che on the chest of a white salad snob.

Again, i don't see what pop art has to do with elitism.

rone
--
Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in

"SMS" wrote in message
...
notbob wrote:

I think that that salad is much worse than you'll find at most
restaurants, and I've been across the U.S. on land many times, and never
saw a salad that bad.

I worked construction in rural Illinois and Missouri for two summers some
years ago. This is a typical salad, except for the unusually generous
quantity of tomatoes.

People who wear Che t-shirts in places like this are lucky to be served at
all.

They are IN the restaurant, with other patrons around, making fun of the
place -- and by extension, the people who have chosen to eat there. This is
very, very rude.

"notbob" wrote in message
. ..
On 2006-11-17, landotter wrote:

After watching it again, the Che T-shirt completely ruins everything
and turns the whole thing into an arrogant bit of elitism.

No kidding. You can tell by the background it's your basic roadside
cafe of the type that's been serving that traditional iceberg/tomato salad
for eons. What the Hell were they expecting, beet n' pear rocket
salad? If anything, it's classic Rt 66 and is as authentic as you can
get. Stupid tourists. I bet they ride bicycles, too.

nb

I don't see anything wrong with the salad. That's the way I LIKE my salads.
.. . .

Charles of Schaumburg