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July 21, 2003

Fast Food

Could have written this myself:

His premise is simple: Food, especially fast food, is making people fat. Apparently against their will or ability to resist … It’s hell living in a rich country with too much to eat, isn’t it? Heaven presumably would be a hungry nation where food is scarce and otherwise tastes like tofu.

It gets even better:

Allow me to translate: By combining sugar, fat, and protein in certain ways, food vendors are trying to make their products taste so good that you’ll eat them. Scandalous.

I really liked this particular rant. Meant to link it last week, but I was a little preoccupied.

The City

George Sessions Perry on San Francisco (1947):

It’s civilized and robust, and its shoulder wouldn’t fit a chip. When you point out something wrong with the place, its people relish that defect too — because it’s a valid part of San Francisco.

My, how things change. San Francisco has long since lost any sense of humor about itself; criticisms are often seen as evidence that the individual uttering them somehow doesn’t “deserve” to be here.

One thing, though, is now clear: San Francisco has not been the largest city in the Bay Area for more than a decade, and the Census Bureau has recognized the fact. And no amount of whining about how cosmpolitan, beautiful, or popular the place may be will change this one simple truth…