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Oyceter ([personal profile] oyceter) wrote2007-11-21 07:58 pm
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Things that annoyed me

  • Randomly flipping open Paste magazine to get music recs only to find people decrying a past Kanye West cover story in letters to the editor. "We don't like rap! Why do you write about rap? All this awful stuff about skanky hos!"

  • Getting the Gourmet magazine to drool over the pictures and the recipes, reading the letters to the editor on a past issue on Latin@ food and culture only to find several of them going off on how irresponsible it is for the magazine to glorify Latin@ culture when all this illegal immigration is ruining the country OH NOES!


I would just like magazines for the plane ride that don't make me want to throw something, is that too much to ask?

Things that amused me

  • The insane amount of people at Whole Foods. I always forget how crazy Thanksgiving here is.

  • The insane amount of food pre-ordered by people at Whole Foods. I goggled at the piles and piles and piles of bags and boxes.

  • Random things people left everywhere in Whole Foods because they didn't want to put them back. Included was a box of cranberries on top of a display of sodas, and a lonely yam abandoned by bottled water. It looked very sad.


Things that are happy

  • Fondue for dinner! Alas, I forgot to bring my camera for food pictures.

  • Thanksgiving plans! This year it is just me and my sister, and I think we are already planning too much, even though it's just a chicken, green bean casserole, dumplings, and mashed potatoes. I am dorkily excited about green bean casserole, which I have not made or really had before. Casseroles! So weird.

  • I am in New York!
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[identity profile] delux-vivens.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
if you're in nyc, drop a comment to [profile] faraway66.

[identity profile] veejane.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
people decrying a past Kanye West cover story in letters to the editor

Weird. And yet, now his mother's just died in as tabloidy (yet not her fault-y) a fashion as possible, the Entertainment Tonight TV shows are all about his grief and empathizing with him, etc. etc. (Yes, I watch these shows while cooking. Shut up.) Maybe it really is just like soap operas, where you can take any villain character and make her a heroine just by throwing in a big heaping dose of Suffering.

Which, makes me worried for Lindsey Lohan's mom, actually.

[identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
The rap thing is practically a white institution, "Let's whine about Black music that White people listen to", as if rap/hiphop/etc is really just about one thing (or as if any kind of pop music has a corner on saying not-so-great stuff about women).

Trashing Latin food though, wtf? Does ANYONE want a 'Gourmet' magazine just on German, Irish, and English cooking????? ("If it was good enough for the first few waves of US immigrants, it's good enough for us!"). I guess throwing Italy in there might spice things up a little bit!
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[identity profile] maerhys.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Getting the Gourmet magazine to drool over the pictures and the recipes, reading the letters to the editor on a past issue on Latin@ food and culture only to find several of them going off on how irresponsible it is for the magazine to glorify Latin@ culture when all this illegal immigration is ruining the country OH NOES!

WTF? Srsly, Gourmet is slipping big time.

[identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Post the green bean casserole receipe! My sister loves the one she does (it's the "classic" one with mushroom soup and crispy onion bits).

[identity profile] la-vie-noire.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
how irresponsible it is for the magazine to glorify Latin@ culture when all this illegal immigration is ruining the country OH NOES!

Wow... you don't have idea how this brightens my day. :/ Is the animosity towards latinos that bad there? (I'm totally not from USA so I have no idea.)

[identity profile] pinkdormouse.livejournal.com 2007-11-24 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
letters to the editor on a past issue on Latin@ food and culture only to find several of them going off on how irresponsible it is for the magazine to glorify Latin@ culture when all this illegal immigration is ruining the country

Attitudes like that puzzle me (almost as much as they depress me). No matter how rabid some sections of the populace over here (probably the ones snapping up second homes in Eastern Europe and poorer parts of the Mediteranian -- cynical me) get about immigrant numbers, I've never seen anyone objecting to all the new food styles popping up.

I'm just hoping the Random Polish Market shows up again before Christmas, because I failed to check it out last time due to being in a rush.
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