Regional Foodie Gifts

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

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

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."

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.

"Where do we put Desserts?"

"Is the MSG local?"

Gaston's Gourmet Truckstop

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

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

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.

"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.

"Say it with Pierogies"

(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.'

'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.'

Food Fight

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

'Is it local?'

"I flew South once. Couldn't buy a decent soft pretzel."

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

"On the plus side, all the ingredients are local."

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

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

Too full after after Christmas dinner!

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