Letters to the Editor
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Um....
..."Waiters with dreadlocks" is a "SHORTCOMING"?!!! WTF?!
Enough with the racism already. Of course many lovely, decent, hardworking people have dreadlocks.
Perhaps you should be dining with Don Imus.
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Nah
He was talking about those white guys with dreadlocks.
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Don Imus!
Good lord, that's topical! Someone's been watching his or her "Daily Show"! Gold star!
It's a good thing you didn't say "Don Imus and Michael Richards," duuuuude, or I might've soiled myself.
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oh hell no
dude i do NOT want my waiter to have dreadlocks. if you have dreadlocks you can be whatever you want but stay away from food.
to the guy who said that not liking dreadlocks in your food is rascist: black people AND white people and even anyone else can have dreadlocks and it will always be a gross thing that should not be near food. if you thought it was rascist then you are acting like only black folks have dreads, which makes YOU rascist. i am sorry dude this is just a fact.
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in support of dreadlocks
Look, why are dreadlocks gross?! It doesn't mean unwashed hair -- it's a style, which some people spend money and hours on in a salon, to get them properly rolled. Dreadlocks can look fantastic, when taken care of. They wouldn't be in your food anymore than any other kind of hair. In fact, since the hair is tightly rolled, probably there is less of a chance of hair falling into your food than from some long-haired blond chick. I think Onstad's comment was unnecessary.
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dang
Man, everybody is getting hung up on this whole dreadlocks thing. Some people think dreadlocks on waiters look stupid and are gross. These people are correct. Let's move on.
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Hm
Well, this article was even less amusing than the cartoon, which is pretty hard to do.
I find lots of things funny, but Achewood isn't one of em. I don't get it, but then I don't get a lot of what passes for humor or pop culture so what do I know...
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best strip on the web
Why am I not surprised that someone with the screen name "Geenius at Wrok" doesn't find Achewood funny?
Achewood is far and away the best online strip out there. Don't let the jealousy of a few haters and malcontents scare you away.
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Typecasting
"You know how some people got perfect pitch, and always like wince and complain about whatever you play on your musical instrument, or point out how the music you listen to isn't actually "correct"? And they only listen to classical music? They are like the people who worry about wine matching food. Everyone hates them."
Sez you, stereotypically. Up to that point, I was amused.
You make it sound like you are actually in the same room with a [wait for it] Classical Musician. OMG!!! OOOH, how did you manage to come out alive? And then you were the victim of stereotypical rudeness and uppityness. Oh sure. Love of ALL music is pretty much a prerequisite for being a musician. You act like "classical" musicians actually act in the way your text suggests. Oh, and, of course, we've never, ever listened to anything but Mozart. No other genres for us, no siree. Well, most of us are under 100, golleeeeeee, and actually have heard/liked/loved/played all sorts of music. So quit with the tired, stale and boring streotyping.
Get a life. Quit being a "labeler".
I bet you go for the fat opera soprano stuff, too. And horned Viking helmets. You live dangerously, don't you?
I rant, I know; but I'm tired of all this stuff. Kind of like that "Italian" or "French" music used in ads---oh yeah, like they listen to that crap in France and Italy and wherever these days. WTF decade are they describing? And where?
It is sort of an American aversion to reality. I want my Italian to come with a concertina, not an opera, dammit.
Ah, the revered, all-American typecasting. Guess we're all just too stupid to understand "we're an Italian restaurant", without the little cues, visual or aural.
I know, this is a serious rant for a light article; now think about the recent damage Don Imus has done, with stereotypical labeling.
Is is just a matter of degree?
IGNORANT TYPECASTING IS ALWAYS HURTFUL.
So think about it.
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What world does this guy live in?
You DO buy wine in boxes. You buy it because if you buy a bottle you'll drink the whole bottle at one sitting and become an obnoxious drunk. You can keep a box of wine up to four, five months after opening. And it doesn't matter what color the wine is; you keep it cold so it doesn't get moldy. I'll bet this guy keeps his bottle of catsup out, and he has to scrape the crust off it every time he wants to use it - whenever he can afford something to eat.
And this "olive oil preferred" business is just plain stupid. Have you priced it down at Winn-Dixie? It costs more than that synthetic AmsOil for your car. The difference between the price of olive oil and Real People's Oil is big enough that you might buy a half pound of hamburger, if it's on sale. That might give you protein for your meal.
You had better learn how to eat cheap, boy. Because the price of food is rising exponentially, and this yuppie crap you keep talking about is going to be beyond your means within a month or two.
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haha
Haha, if I were Onstad I'd be turning these ridiculous complaint emails into material for Pat strips.
"Dear Trader Joe's..."
m.
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Just wondering
This way your hand does not heat the wine. Yes, the situation is really that delicate. And people will notice. There is nothin' more trashy than a lady holdin' white wine by the bowl of the glass. I immediately leave the party if there is a lady like that there.
No one's going to complain that the character is being misogynistic, classist, or wasting money by drinking wine?
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Real people's oil?
Hilarious. Olive oil isn't "real" or for "real people"? I saw your letter in the other thread, too. You seem to have this notion that if someone eats anything other than Kraft mac & cheese they're a rich, yuppie food snob. Some people love food. Most of them aren't rich. Some of them love to write about it. If the thought of someone writing joyfully about the food they like and how much that food costs infuriates you so much, then stop reading it. It's just like "I Like To Watch". You have a bug up your ass about Havrilesky, but you just can't keep yourself from wanking about her week after week.