Local Food Enthusiasts Pillows

'It's local. Grown here on the east coast, frozen and packaged on the west coast, and shipped back.'

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

"Yo, Cézanne, paint faster. I need those grapes for the Madeira sauce."

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

"I chose to stand up to special interest groups!"

'You realize we're only having three people over...'

"Is the MSG local?"

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

"Tia Carmen's not happy unless she can send people away with a plate of leftovers for the road."

Party time.

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

"What time did you say you wanted me to start drinking?"

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

"I'll be glad when the television is fixed."

You're the sizzle in my roast!

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

"Your meal sounded nice."

"They won't even try their palate cleansers!"

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

"This crew gets 15 miles to the pound of gruel. They're very fuel efficient."

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.

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

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

Thermidor Dali

"The special is… pine nut encrusted… filet of salmon… in a balsamic wine reduction."

'I decided to start buying food in bulk. I hope you're hungry!'

'Are you sure these sprouts aren't GM?.'

'Pumpkin pie isn't dessert. It's another vegetable.'

I am to blame.

"He'd like the broiled monkfish, too, but first he's having a quick taste of the gutter."

Snacks for Learners

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