So y'all can school me on this

Post #427,692 by pwhysall 2/25/19 8:24:42 AM 2/25/19 8:24:42 AM Reply	So y'all can school me on this I like negative restaurant reviews. I like to read how some arsehole with too much money comes a cropper when they charge £20 for a starter, and it's shit, and said £20-for-a-shit-starter gets into the national press. Bonus points if it's Jay Rayner doing the telling. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but whatever. Anyhoo, I was reading this here review of Montana's Trail House: https://observer.com/2014/07/montanas-trail-house-brings-morally-hazardous-appalachian-cuisine-to-brooklyn/ And whilst I get that it was expensive and it was (largely) shit, I don't really get the "morally hazardous" part. I mean, I think I have a vague idea, but can one of you natives walk me through it?
Post #427,694 by drook 2/25/19 9:35:57 AM 2/25/19 9:36:59 AM Reply	It's like blackface, except instead of poor black people it's poor white people... Call it beardface And they get it wrong, too. Appalachia is not the South. Hillbillies aren't the same as rednecks. -- Drew Edited by drook Feb. 25, 2019, 09:36:59 AM EST Expand All History
Post #427,696 by pwhysall 2/25/19 9:51:00 AM 2/25/19 9:51:00 AM Reply	Interesting There isn't an analogue over here, hence my seeking of nollij. No-one would ever set up a restaurant based on the peasant food of the West Midlands, for example, because that already exists and it's Mahmood's Shawarma Kebab House. I guess we just don't have the requisite degree of geographical separation - sleepy Rural Britain is only 20 minutes in the car from throbbing Urban Britain, for the most part.
Post #427,699 by drook 2/25/19 11:26:48 AM 2/25/19 11:26:48 AM Reply	You could fit all of Great Britain comfortably in Appalachia https://mapfight.appspot.com/england-vs-appalachian/england-appalachian-mountain-range-size-comparison I once visited friends in West-by-God-Virginia who lived 45 minutes from the nearest corner store, and they didn't consider themselves to be all that rural. There's people who live down in the holler who may not see anyone who isn't related for months at a time. "Insular" is something beyond a way of life. And a kind of poverty most people don't want to imagine can exist in the so-called first world. And Brooklyn hipsters are using it for their theme restaurant. -- Drew
Post #427,713 by Ashton 2/25/19 11:16:05 PM 2/25/19 11:16:05 PM Reply	Got 'root'? (-description) ~~Sterling~~ tin-plate deflection simply illustrates common bizness-greed; the food/environmental details do a lateral arabesque around this fact: the fare is so manifestly overpriced. It would be an ordinary greasy-spoon dump, were it priced according to low food cost [and uncaring/inept quality of (also underpaid) preparation staff]. It's just another mistrake.. in the [gawd I hate that word] framing as-if t'were some sort of 'Review?' (the proper word when matters are portrayed ~honestly). HTH? {sigh}. tl;dr then, It's not just corrupt [pols, polls, "justice systems", POLS, fucking-entrepreneurs.cha.cha.cha, car-dealers (pronounced '-stealers' over here]. I guess that "planet-wide majorities" throughout the species are now as corrupt ..as in all those magnificent portrayals of St. Terry Pratchett. Is it really any Wonder? ... that planet-wide now: some huge slice of the homo-saps are pig-ignorant of the idea, "Nazi-think" (because they ain 't got ..no historical sense of their First-run over There in Yurop ..nor any desire to fill-in that blank); No Gumption (would have to look up the slang, even). Yep, I'm Selling Short on "our" chances to address any of the lethalities beckoning broadly --> towards us lemmings. I've been seeing--not just sorta lookin-at en passant--this Play of, by, for Thuh Peepul ... over too many consecutive rePlays to doubt what I've fuckin-Seen, y'Know? ..and all the rest be just Tawk, innitr? Sincere condolences to all which made theyselves some little-Childruns, a matter not to be dwelt on very often if ya don't wanna claw out yer eyes. All this crap: illustrated nicely in the above near-Chaucerian Tale, A k-night There Was and that a werethy man.. ... (Thanks, Blighty for the Bard! too.)
Post #427,710 by boxley 2/25/19 8:58:43 PM 2/25/19 8:58:43 PM Reply	appalachians are decendents of poor scots, geordies cornishmen and irish who went into the mountains to farm or mine coal and brought their clannish fueding ways with them. pictures worht etc etc https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&biw=1346&bih=505&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=v5x0XJnTJo3ZjgSEg4l4&q=people+of+appalachia&oq=people+of+appalachia&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5i30j0i8i30l3.54203.57992..58317...0.0..0.179.1418.3j8......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i30j0i7i5i30.Ua03rDbqBP "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #428,720 by CRConrad 5/1/19 5:29:50 PM 5/1/19 5:29:50 PM Reply	Linguistic observation From the article: "burgoo, a meaty Kentucky stew" I'm betting that's a corruption of "boeuf bourgignon" (specifically, the latter part). Anyone wanna bet against? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #428,722 by boxley 5/1/19 5:52:20 PM 5/1/19 5:52:20 PM Reply	good catch, except for the wine and the road kill very similar "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman

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