Comments on: Slow Food Gone Wrong http://smallchou.com/blog/2009/01/slow-food-gone-wrong/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://smallchou.com/blog/2009/01/slow-food-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-35849 Brian Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:48:59 +0000 http://smallchou.com/blog/?p=612#comment-35849 The kicker is that 'slow food' isn't necessarily more expensive. Dining out to fast food gets costly unless you're living off the various dollar menus (which I find quite tasty, especially the 2 tacos at Jack in the Box). Sure, fresh fruits and vegetables are more expensive than some Hamburger Helper or whatever it is you humanoids purchase from the neighborhood Wal-Mart these days, but it is all about seasonality and variety. And Bonnie is right on about the name. Calling it 'slow food' is the type of thing only liberal elites would go for. The kicker is that ‘slow food’ isn’t necessarily more expensive. Dining out to fast food gets costly unless you’re living off the various dollar menus (which I find quite tasty, especially the 2 tacos at Jack in the Box). Sure, fresh fruits and vegetables are more expensive than some Hamburger Helper or whatever it is you humanoids purchase from the neighborhood Wal-Mart these days, but it is all about seasonality and variety. And Bonnie is right on about the name. Calling it ‘slow food’ is the type of thing only liberal elites would go for.

]]> By: bonnie http://smallchou.com/blog/2009/01/slow-food-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-35828 bonnie Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:01:10 +0000 http://smallchou.com/blog/?p=612#comment-35828 i really like this. way to break this down, friend. i think now the next steps would be: a) "hey, here's HOW to start eating this good-tasting healthy shit (slow food)," and b) rebrand the movement so that it's not called "slow food" and repped by a snail. it's cute that it's the opposite of fast food, but not really the message that'll change the minds of people who work two jobs and like Jack In the Box. i really like this. way to break this down, friend. i think now the next steps would be:
a) “hey, here’s HOW to start eating this good-tasting healthy shit (slow food),” and
b) rebrand the movement so that it’s not called “slow food” and repped by a snail. it’s cute that it’s the opposite of fast food, but not really the message that’ll change the minds of people who work two jobs and like Jack In the Box.

]]> By: Tammy Coxen http://smallchou.com/blog/2009/01/slow-food-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-35730 Tammy Coxen Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:51 +0000 http://smallchou.com/blog/?p=612#comment-35730 Interesting post, and I think you're spot on for how to "sell" the movement. Thanks. You asked... <i>Why is the fact that a restaurant ships its food pre-cooked from God-only-knows-where grounds to enforce unique regulations on them?’). By the way, if someone has a legitimate answer to that question, I am actually interested to hear it.</i> Nutrition data testing requires sending food off to a lab to be measured and deconstructed and calculated. Perfectly feasible for a mass produced, pre-cooked product, not really manageable for the pasta primavera a restaurant might make as a special based on the freshest vegetables they could find in the market that day. And there's a cost associated with each test, which imposes an undue burden on small restaurants - if it's $500 and you're spreading it across 20,000 servings of frozen something, that's one thing, but the same cost spread across 25 plates that night at dinner (assuming you could even get same day testing) is another thing entirely. Small businesses are already exempt from nutrition data labeling laws for packaged products, so this would just extend that exemption to them in the context of a new restaurant law. Interesting post, and I think you’re spot on for how to “sell” the movement. Thanks.

You asked…

Why is the fact that a restaurant ships its food pre-cooked from God-only-knows-where grounds to enforce unique regulations on them?’). By the way, if someone has a legitimate answer to that question, I am actually interested to hear it.

Nutrition data testing requires sending food off to a lab to be measured and deconstructed and calculated. Perfectly feasible for a mass produced, pre-cooked product, not really manageable for the pasta primavera a restaurant might make as a special based on the freshest vegetables they could find in the market that day. And there’s a cost associated with each test, which imposes an undue burden on small restaurants – if it’s $500 and you’re spreading it across 20,000 servings of frozen something, that’s one thing, but the same cost spread across 25 plates that night at dinner (assuming you could even get same day testing) is another thing entirely.

Small businesses are already exempt from nutrition data labeling laws for packaged products, so this would just extend that exemption to them in the context of a new restaurant law.

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