Talking about food, I just saw a restaurant offer a “fried chicken salad” for lunch. I can just imagine the virtuous feeling the customers get from being able to say, “Oh, I just had a salad today.”
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Well, as long as it technically has a vegetable on it…
http://weknowmemes.com/2013/06/look-i-made-a-salad/
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Heh, I love these heuristics for figuring out if food is virtuous our not. To diverge from that restaurant and your blogpost quite a bit, the dichotomy seems to be healthy, made-from-scratch food vs unhealthy, convenient food, which results in a bunch of middle class (therefore most socially insecure) women competing amongst each other over how “healthy” and “green” (read: time-consuming) the food they feed to their families can get. Me, I’d rather get a shaorma (pita bread, raw vegetables and roasted chicken – one can skip the fries and, in the better shaorma places, get sauces that don’t come from a bottle and taste better than ketchup anyway) and spend the time I freed on either self-improvement or raw hedonism.
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I really love shawarma. It seems to be sold everywhere in theworld these days except this area where I live. 😦
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It really is the best street food. I’ve never had proper shaorma in a place that wasn’t run by Middle Eastern immigrants or Turks though, so if you live in Whitebread Smalltown America I can see how obtaining it would be a problem 😦
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Don’t look to me as a role model — I’m about to pop ’round for onion bhajis and a chip shop curry …
I KNOW … *broadly beaming grin*… I’ll have them put it on a salad.
It won’t faze them a bit, I suspect — they’ll just think I’m five sheets to the wind like most of the other customers right now …
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If you are in London, you’ll have the best Indian food ever. I’m envious.
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Fried chicken salad..? American food is far, far more weird than any English Indian food I’ve ever tasted…. if that makes any sense.
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