Just realized I didn't explain quite why Cafe Gratitude scares me. This is their menu: [link] It's fairly typical for a vegan restaurant menu, actually a pretty good selection, but every dish, rather than being named something normal like "Caesar salad," gets a name like "I am dazzling." And you must order by saying, "I am dazzling," and then the server repeats back to you, "You are dazzling."
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Jun 05, 2009 6:57:52 am PDT #22905 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
amych - Jun 05, 2009 6:58:52 am PDT #22906 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ewwwww. Cutesy concepts that you're required to play along with are a NO in restaurant service. Or any other kind of customer service.
Lee - Jun 05, 2009 7:01:56 am PDT #22907 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Did you all know today is National Donut Day? [link]
javachik - Jun 05, 2009 7:02:09 am PDT #22908 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Hil, totally. I went to the one in the Sunset when my cousins were visiting and was commpletely creeped out with the names and that schtick. But then, I loathe forced gaiety.
Hil R. - Jun 05, 2009 7:02:18 am PDT #22909 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Even their kids menu is stuff like "I am a winner" and "I am a star." (And looking at the actual food on their menu more closely, it's a lot more raw food than I'd noticed before.)
Trudy Booth - Jun 05, 2009 7:02:28 am PDT #22910 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Not to mention gramatically unsound. The name of the item is "I am dazzling," not "you are dazzling."
msbelle - Jun 05, 2009 7:03:03 am PDT #22911 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Wow - that makes me laugh and laugh. I would have to order an "I am not playing along" and a " You are ridiculous"
This really says it all:
Our food and people are a celebration of our aliveness.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 05, 2009 7:06:46 am PDT #22912 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Even their kids menu is stuff like "I am a winner" and "I am a star."
And what's with calling it their "offering for children"? Weird, indeed.
Gudanov - Jun 05, 2009 7:07:59 am PDT #22913 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
"offering for children"
Sounds more like something you give a fertility god in order to get divine favor in reproduction attempts.
Zenkitty - Jun 05, 2009 7:09:36 am PDT #22914 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Fertility gods are rarely vegan, though.