Regional Food Gifts

Minnesota State Fair

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.'

'Have you been 'helping the environment by supporting local produce' again?'

"Is the MSG local?"

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

"This is locally grown and good for the environment, but it may give you greenhouse gas."

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

Scouse For Beginners

'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?"

Hot Chestnuts

"The Steak, too? I know it's autumn, but do you have to have EVERY thing pumpkin spice?"

"Say it with Pierogies"

"Fresh-raked leaves?"

"No, we don't have field to plate provenance for each bean."

(Direct to the Consumer)

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

Man on Stilts in a Market

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

'. . . the Winter of Discontent Soup, Arab Spring Roll, Summer Madness Salad and The Season of Mellow Mists Fruit Medley.'

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

Meanwhile in Yorkshire

"It's Brooklyn clam chowder - you got a problem with that?"

'This should increase our business.'

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

'All our food is locally sourced.'

'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."

"Look dear...I bought two farmers!"

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

'Is it local?'