Regional Food Lover Gifts

"Say it with Pierogies"

We need a new eco project. Ok. Let's get locally grown food into the school cafeteria. What's our strategy? We can start with the potatoes. I'll make the poster. We want home fries.

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.'

Don't mind us. We're just trying to eat more locally grown food.

"Is the MSG local?"

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

Mom? Eco club is starting a campaign to eat local food. Good idea. Would you please pack me a lunch from organic stuff grown near here? Ok. I'm sure we have something. Thanks! Oh, boy. A beet sandwich.

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.

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

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

'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.

"Summer's here. Do you want to start talking incessantly about tomatoes or corn?"

Man on Stilts in a Market

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

(Direct to the Consumer)

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

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

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

Family.

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

'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'.'

Food Fight

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

Galician vineyards

'Is it local?'

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

"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!"