Oh, San Francisco, how I love you...
Aug. 26th, 2007 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrl...but sometimes you crack me up.
I went to dinner with friends a couple weeks ago to a restaurant called Farmer Brown's, or actually "farmerbrowns." It's on a nasty downtown block, and looks from the outside like a real dive (beat-up security gate, papered windows) but inside it's fancy and sleek, with a well stocked bar, specialty drinks, and a good-looking young mostly-black staff. There's a DJ spinning old school jazz and portraits of the usual suspects (Miles Davis, Billie Holiday) on the walls. The clientele, including us, was entirely white and yuppified, though I do take the hippie exception myself. The menu was full of southern style comfort food--the fried chicken is phenomenal, I must say! But aside from the general weirdness of such upscale cultural appropriation, the "black-people-love-us" vibe, here's what really cracked me up. I opened the menu, and the first thing on the specials list was this:
"chicken fried organic wildwood tofu po'boy"
Doesn't that just sum it up?
I went to dinner with friends a couple weeks ago to a restaurant called Farmer Brown's, or actually "farmerbrowns." It's on a nasty downtown block, and looks from the outside like a real dive (beat-up security gate, papered windows) but inside it's fancy and sleek, with a well stocked bar, specialty drinks, and a good-looking young mostly-black staff. There's a DJ spinning old school jazz and portraits of the usual suspects (Miles Davis, Billie Holiday) on the walls. The clientele, including us, was entirely white and yuppified, though I do take the hippie exception myself. The menu was full of southern style comfort food--the fried chicken is phenomenal, I must say! But aside from the general weirdness of such upscale cultural appropriation, the "black-people-love-us" vibe, here's what really cracked me up. I opened the menu, and the first thing on the specials list was this:
"chicken fried organic wildwood tofu po'boy"
Doesn't that just sum it up?
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Date: 2007-08-27 03:50 pm (UTC)I notice you quote Scarlet Begonias on your profile or your friends page. I think that's my favorite GD song. If you asked my sister or my friends which song they identify me with, they'd answer Scarlet Begonias. Actually it's tough to pick a number one favorite, but it's definitely a top-fiver for me. :-)
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Date: 2007-08-27 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-28 07:04 pm (UTC)