Regional Foods Gifts

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

"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.'

Night of the Latkes

-'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.

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.

Scouse For Beginners

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

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.'

"Fresh-raked leaves?"

Hot Chestnuts

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

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

Man on Stilts in a Market

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

(Direct to the Consumer)

'. . . 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

'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."

Food Fight

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

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