August 31, 2009
Bon Apetit!
I salute Don Surber for saluting LATimes writer, Charlotte Allen: “Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food.” ThreeSourcers should love it -- it has it all:
1) A great picture of a burger!
2) A blow for modernity and its foundation in affordable food. Allen:
The most zealous of the spend-more crowd, however, are the food intellectuals who salivated, as it were, at a steep rise in the cost of groceries earlier this year, including such basics as milk and eggs. Some people might worry about the effect on recession-hit families of a 17% increase in the price of milk, but not Alice Waters, the food-activist owner of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse restaurant, who shudders at the thought of sampling so much as a strawberry that hasn’t been nourished by organic compost and picked that morning at a nearby farm — and thinks everyone else in America should shudder too.
3) A closing whack at the elites who want us to sacrifice other things (cellophanes and Nike shorts are suggested) to meet their standards of behavior. Surber:
It is about being elite.And you cannot be elite if everyone else has what you have.
When the rest of us schlubs have a car just as good as them — when we have food just as good as them — when we have appliances just as good as them — then the elites come up with an excuse to take it all away from us.