The City on the Bay Stinks!

The City on the Bay Stinks!

Tony Bennet may have left his heart there but, if so, Tony should know that San Francisco may be fine for storing organs but when he visits he might consider bringing a bag lunch and some Air Wick.

I’ve never been to San Fran and I hear it’s nice this time of year. So, too, is Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, where many Kolkatans/Calcuttans engage in the same activity as some San Franciscans. In less sophisticated locales it’s called “dumpster diving.”

I don’t know what it’s called in Kolkata/Calcutta since I haven’t visited there either–I’m only allowed to travel around the block–and I doubt they have many dempsty dumpsters or any other kind of dumpsters but Frisco sophisticates call it “foraging.” They also, naturally, believe they’re making an environmental statement, as Friscans are apt to do.

“BigFurHat” of IOwntheWorld.com–who evidently doesn’t get out much either– witnessed a forager on the Travel Channel say, “This generation is breaking free from the undemocratic contrivances of food distribution and unsustainabilty and embracing a unique vehicle of how one goes about reclaiming a relationship with food.”

Not being a food sophisticate, I’m not sure what that means but “BigFurHat” did. He termed it “bullsh*t,” which seems to fit since the server of the Travel Channel meal, priced at $85 per, “made some snail concoction on a cracker. Then he served some fennel thing on a cracker. Then he served wild boar that some dude shot on his parent’s farm:” http://tiny.cc/xsk8f

The sources of all the other delicacies were not revealed, probably because they were all illegally obtained either from dumpsters or from “public spaces.” Hey, if super-sophisticated Friscans were willing to fork over $85 for grub that could have been dumpster-dredged and plucked from municipal flower beds, it’s all good, no? As long as we are ”breaking free” and “reclaiming,” yada, yada, yada.

Bless their and Tony’s hearts, San Franciscans are also very water conscious . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3782)