Local Cuisine Enthusiast Gifts

Restaurant Sign: All our food is locally consumed.

"I'll give you three guesses what's for dinner."

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

-'but for a full English breakfast you can't beat Blackpool,sir.'

"Is the MSG local?"

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

"But if you leave New Orleans, you'll be just another sandwich."

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"I love finding my food at the Farmers Market. Makes me feel like a true pioneer."

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

As I say, local produce, locally produced; all our meats tonight come form our local meat processing plant.

'Tropical fruit, imported cheese, coconuts...I'm not really into that 'eat locally' stuff.'

As soon as he began speaking Manuel's Spanish accent was unmistakeable and he was evicted from the Local food group.

"Waiter, can you find out if this hair in my arugula salad is locally harvested?"

"Say it with Pierogies"

Man on Stilts in a Market

'It's all local, except for the fish. They're from the ocean.'

(Direct to the Consumer)

'I think we should eat out in the hotel tomorrow dear.'

"How about you? Were you 'locally raised'?"

'Fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, nuts, berries, roots, tubers, stems, leaves.'

'This should increase our business.'

'It's farm-to-table-to-farm dining.'

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

'What do you expect? It's not summer anymore.'

"You're the one who wanted to go someplace off the beaten track - you ask him what's gluten free."

'Is it local?'

'I'd heard that they like to source their food locally'

"Do you do catering?"

"All our water is locally sourced. From a little something we call 'the kitchen faucet'."

"What's so great about eating local? It's all fast food."

"It's steak and chips, it is what the ploughman had for lunch!"

"Too bad we only see each other when we're hungry! I know! Let's go on a date, a real date!"