[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

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Well, Doug, first of all the question that I raised to which you are 
responding was whether pizza is in decline. I don't think that makes me 
the codger you mention. (The same for Chinese food on the upper West 
Side. I might add that the same laws seem to be applying to Indian food.)

As to your remark that food in the US is "a million times better than it was 
30-35 years ago": unqualified and uncomplex, this remark falls apart 
immediately. (It didn't make it here through cyberspace, so I had to use a 
secret technique to resonstruct it.) We all know the ample evidence of the 
improvement in American tastes, "slow food," New Paltz, Union Square, 
etc. But we also know about the collapse of the American diet, the quality 
of fast food, the corruption of the food supply, etc. It's hardly a 
conservative longing for some past golden age to point these things out. 
(Where do you manage to buy edible chicken?) I leave you to quantify all 
this, and to figure out how it all adds up to a million-fold improvement.

Jesse

---- Original Message ----

From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity
Date: Sat, September 09, 2006, 22:48:00

On Sep 9, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:


> This seems to me to confirm that pizza, another ethnic food, is in  
> terrible
> decline.

Be careful, Jesse. You don't want to sound like one of those old  
codgers who go on about how things used to be so much  
better...especially food in the US, which is a million times better  
today than it was 30-35 years ago.

Doug
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