Friday, September 7

 
Crimenently! (as my mom would say)

I feel personally dumped on twice in one story, thanks to Sharon Noguchi of the San Jose Mercury-News. First, she makes some snotty comment about one daughter's tastebuds having a distinctly Midwestern bent because she builds her diet on "meat, starch, sugar, oil and salt." Like they don't eat meat and potatoes in California. Might I remind Miss California-style that a lot of the fruits and vegetables we get up here on the Frozen Tundra get shipped to us from agrifactories in . . . . CALIFORNIA!! The dirty little secret among California vegetarians is that they get to keep all the ripe-red, juicy-meat tomatoes, juicy-sweet watermelon, and lemons with considerably higher juice-to-rind ratios for themselves while they send us green baseballs and expect us to believe they're really tomatoes, and hockey pucks painted to resemble lemons. Huh!

Then, she goes on to praise the lunchbox-making art of Japanese mothers who lovingly pack artistic, nutritious lunches for their children. So, now I'm supposed to toss the Scooby-Doo lunchbox in favor of a wood-lacquered bento-bako full of sushi? Sorry - this okaasan has her hands full just getting the Little Prince out of bed and into the bathroom in the morning. Oh, here's the answer: I can BUY "obentos" -- sounds like the Japanes version of a Lunchable (and granted, those evil creations did come from that most Midwestern of all food-factories the Oscar Mayer Co.). I might not descend to the Lunchables level in packing my kiddo's lunch, but a humble peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich that gets eaten is better than a fancy obento that looks pretty.

Off to milk the cow in the backyard . . . Oh, I suppose you want the link too, eh?
posted by Unknown 10:11 AM