Regional Food Prints

Minnesota State Fair

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.'

'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."

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.

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

Scouse For Beginners

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

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

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

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

"Fresh-raked leaves?"

"Say it with Pierogies"

Hot Chestnuts

"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

'. . . 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.'

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

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.'

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

''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."

Food Fight