Pound Fir Pound
A few weeks ago when I passed through Des Moines I had BBQ at Jethro’s. It markets itself as a manly restaurant. Also a food competition type place, what’s manly about extreme consumption I don’t now. So not only am I a jerk, I am also not manly.
There’s no question that I’m a snob. I come by it honestly, quick story. At 5 the whole family had a formal dinner at a local fine dining restaurant where I grew up in Montreal. The waiter and the chef decided that, at 5, I should eat just the melon from a melon ball -prosciutto appetizer. I raised hell, and got my prosciutto. There is simply no substitute, and one must make their position known should something be unacceptable.
A few times in conversations I have been told not to, “Jew me down.” So I guess there’s that too. In any event, I suppose if you asked around to enough folks you would find a few more choice words that have been thrown around town in my direction, some based on fact, some fiction.
So yes, I’m a jerk cause I want to see an organic, and sustainable food system replace ours. I must also be a loser, cause I am losing the war against shit food, hands down-getting slaughtered. A short, little slightly over weight, snobby, plain looking, foul mouthed, loser, high handicapping —mad lib— , what did I miss?, jerk.
Now that we got out of the way.
Can we get down to what really matters, our world?
to paraphrase HDT, if yer gonna be a jerk, be the king of the jerks.
nice video.
Well, I’ve heard several things about you in this Industry of ours, I am a fan of your blog and it takes balls to be a jerk and even more to admit it. Don’t always agree with you but I believe that’s the point of putting a topic for discussion out there. Let’s keep uP with the good work, they are the JERKS for shying away of what is important.
If you are a snob, why would you eat a place that you knew that you don’t agree with the way they operate?
While I think your heart is in the right place, without defining what you mean by sustainiable its just a buzz word that sounds good, but lacks substance
Ha! “a buzz word” What silliness. Silly blog comments just for the sake of pooh poohing others, bullshit and immature. Did you have a bad day, someone cut you off in traffic?
You have no idea how much work is going into this concept. Zero concept of what goes into every decision these days.
Substantial means doing the work. Care to tour my places? Care bear witness to all the thought that goes into the process, any time.
Well actually for anyone but anonymous “JohnnyU”.
“If you are a snob, why would you eat a place that you knew that you don’t agree with the way they operate?”
When I was five? You got me good with that one.
Jerk!