Comments on: Arugula and Bubbas I have known http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: hamletta http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512761 Thu, 01 May 2008 01:00:55 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512761 Of course they grow it, if they're smart. <i>It's a fuckin' weed!</i> My girlfriend once flung a branch of it into the back of my truck: "Just lop off the end, and stick it in the ground. You'll have all the rocket you could ever want!" Of course they grow it, if they’re smart. It’s a fuckin’ weed!

My girlfriend once flung a branch of it into the back of my truck: “Just lop off the end, and stick it in the ground. You’ll have all the rocket you could ever want!”

]]> by: Tom http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512715 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:12:02 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512715 I'll bet every farmer in Iowa knows what arugula is. They grow it on their farms. And the person who quoted the letter they sent to Newsweek is right on target. I’ll bet every farmer in Iowa knows what arugula is. They grow it on their farms. And the person who quoted the letter they sent to Newsweek is right on target.

]]> by: bekabot http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512612 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:21:07 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512612 What's amazing about this is that: A) We're not supposed to engage in class warfare, and B) We're not suppose to fall victim to class envy, nevertheless C) Not only are class divisions now enforced to an unprecedented extent---and through the official media at that, but D) Totally fanciful and heretofore unknown class divisions are being enforced through the same channels. And deeply implicated in the whole shebang is the supposition that class barriers ought to be irrefragable and that middle-class expendables like (Bill) Clinton and Barack Obama are not <em>supposed</em> to be able to break into the ranks of the elite---the idea that the fact they've done so proves them "inauthentic". Because, as we all know, the only authentic people are people who keep to the station in which God has been pleased to place them lifelong. What’s amazing about this is that:

A) We’re not supposed to engage in class warfare, and

B) We’re not suppose to fall victim to class envy, nevertheless

C) Not only are class divisions now enforced to an unprecedented extent—and through the official media at that, but

D) Totally fanciful and heretofore unknown class divisions are being enforced through the same channels.

And deeply implicated in the whole shebang is the supposition that class barriers ought to be irrefragable and that middle-class expendables like (Bill) Clinton and Barack Obama are not supposed to be able to break into the ranks of the elite—the idea that the fact they’ve done so proves them “inauthentic”. Because, as we all know, the only authentic people are people who keep to the station in which God has been pleased to place them lifelong.

]]> by: junk science http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512575 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:32:09 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512575 I didn't get the impression that elitist food has to be expensive. It seems to encompass anything foreign-sounding, "girly," or that would gross out an eight-year-old. "I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli." - George H. W. Bush I didn’t get the impression that elitist food has to be expensive. It seems to encompass anything foreign-sounding, “girly,” or that would gross out an eight-year-old.

“I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.”
- George H. W. Bush

]]> by: junk science http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512569 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:27:05 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512569 <i>Aw, man, now I have to go to Roscoe’s tonight.</i> Talk about elitist. I hope I never pay thirteen bucks for a waffle and a piece of fried chicken again. It's good, though. I'll miss it. Aw, man, now I have to go to Roscoe’s tonight.

Talk about elitist. I hope I never pay thirteen bucks for a waffle and a piece of fried chicken again.

It’s good, though. I’ll miss it.

]]> by: paul http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512551 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:45:14 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512551 Beer in a fancy mug? Who drinks that, Newsweek? Beer in a fancy mug? Who drinks that, Newsweek?

]]> by: Stentor http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512530 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:01:47 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512530 I'm laughing at myself right now, because I've seen that cover around on several blogs, but since the text is so tiny I assumed the story was about the hops shortage that's hurting brewers (I have no idea what hops looks like, just that it's a plant), and just skipped the post since I'm a teetotaling elitist. I’m laughing at myself right now, because I’ve seen that cover around on several blogs, but since the text is so tiny I assumed the story was about the hops shortage that’s hurting brewers (I have no idea what hops looks like, just that it’s a plant), and just skipped the post since I’m a teetotaling elitist.

]]> by: Melissa http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512491 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:12:36 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512491 So we had arugula last night, with other mixed greens, and pizza, and ice cream sandwiches, and beast beer. What does that say about our household? So we had arugula last night, with other mixed greens, and pizza, and ice cream sandwiches, and beast beer. What does that say about our household?

]]> by: Amanda Marcotte http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512486 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:59:52 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512486 JTrain: It's true. I just went to a fancy wedding that was hosted in a barn. Granted, a renovated barn, but nonetheless a barn where fancy was signified by all the wrought iron and unfinished wood. Our fanciest restaurants often just require that you wear clean jeans and your best cowboy boots, but at least it's not like back home, where men actually had their good cowboy hats to wear out vs. their working hats. I'm sure you could argue that we have elitist BBQ joints, too. But yes, we have our fair share of ostensible rednecks who you discover are card-carrying members of the ACLU. Back in the 60s, all the jokes were about how LBJ was a mega-redneck. Now he'd be called an elitist. JTrain: It’s true. I just went to a fancy wedding that was hosted in a barn. Granted, a renovated barn, but nonetheless a barn where fancy was signified by all the wrought iron and unfinished wood. Our fanciest restaurants often just require that you wear clean jeans and your best cowboy boots, but at least it’s not like back home, where men actually had their good cowboy hats to wear out vs. their working hats. I’m sure you could argue that we have elitist BBQ joints, too.

But yes, we have our fair share of ostensible rednecks who you discover are card-carrying members of the ACLU. Back in the 60s, all the jokes were about how LBJ was a mega-redneck. Now he’d be called an elitist.

]]> by: the opoponax http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512485 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:57:23 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/29/7122/#comment-512485 Regarding okra: my grandmother grew up on an okra farm during the depression. Okra was pretty much all she ate for the first decade of her life. She still can't stand the sight of it, and our family gumbo recipe is of the file genre. Of course, it's true that, with the ability to cannibalize their okra crop each year they were probably doing better than, say, the folks from the dust bowl who lost everything. <i>Yes, this is the “Roscoe’s” that’s briefly mentioned in Jackie Brown.</i> And which also plays a cameo role in that 80's classic, <i>Tapeheads</i>. Regarding okra: my grandmother grew up on an okra farm during the depression. Okra was pretty much all she ate for the first decade of her life. She still can’t stand the sight of it, and our family gumbo recipe is of the file genre. Of course, it’s true that, with the ability to cannibalize their okra crop each year they were probably doing better than, say, the folks from the dust bowl who lost everything.

Yes, this is the “Roscoe’s” that’s briefly mentioned in Jackie Brown.

And which also plays a cameo role in that 80’s classic, Tapeheads.

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