Worst Salad on Route 66

Mike Kruger wrote:
"SMS" wrote in message
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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.

I would have liked the video better if it had ended with the locals
physically ejecting the obnoxious couple from the restaurant.

--
Tom Sherman - Post Free or Die!

"landotter" wrote in message
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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.


Amen, brother. Now why are there no women that are like that? All the
single women out here in the 'burbs are vegetarian, neurotic, leftists with
cats. If there are any decent women, they're deep in hiding.

Charles of Schaumburg

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

I found the people boring after 15 seconds. Click, gone.

In article om,
"Peter Lawrence" writes:

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.

There was (is?) a by-law in Vancouver where "licensed premises"
cafes & diners could only serve beer or spirits to customers who
also ordered food. Some places had "ostensible" salads for that
purpose, just in case the cops looked in.

I wouldn't be surprised if they re-used the same, untouched bowl
of salad a number of times.

Sometimes salad ain't for eating.


cheers,
Tom

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In article ,
"Mike Kruger" wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
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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.

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.

I'll agree with other posters, that the salad in question is not
atypical of what I'd expect at a small-town diner (what this appears to
be) in the Midwest. I thought I heard something in the early part of the
audio track about the guy expecting arugula, or sun-dried tomatoes.

The real rudeness is "outing" the name name of the place in the audio
track. At least other travel writers, when they hit a bad spot, usually
use the occasion to make the point that one should "eat locally"--what
is produced locally, so it's at its most fresh.

Steve

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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, chip shot in the other, body thoroughly
used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

On 18 Nov 2006 06:57:18 -0800, "Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman"
wrote:
Mike Kruger wrote:
"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.

I would have liked the video better if it had ended with the locals
physically ejecting the obnoxious couple from the restaurant.

The ugly American visits America...

Email address works as is.

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

Funny, I didn't think the salad looked that bad. OTOH, the woman
mocking the salad was....

"Kenny" wrote:

the woman
mocking the salad was....

Was what?

rone wrote:

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.


I'll reiterate what notbob originally said: you really *don't* get it...

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Best
Greg

So who are the people in the video?