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In article <10gb2off8h8cd88@corp.supernews.com>, Kenneth Crudup
<kenny@panix.com> wrote:

> In article <4103293F.364FF5F0@earthlink.net>,
> Arne Adolfsen <adolfsen@earthlink.net> says:
> 
> >Would you Bay Area assholes GET THE FUCK OFF la.eats?
> 
> You're on *crack* (again).
> 
> I'm here.
> Tim's here.
> Julian's here.
> 
> Now, while all of us at one time or another have lived in the
> BA, we're *NOW* all in the Los Angeles Metro area. Unless you
> come around with a shotgun (let me know in advance, I can give
> you the code to my security door), we're here to *stay*.

Yep, what he said. 

I first lived in SoCal in 1956, though I was too young to appreciate
restaurants (though I liked what I understood later was
Jack-in-the-Box, #2, not far from Balboa Avenue, above Mission Bay, in
San Diego, of course.). And I used to hear about Anthony's, in La
Jolla.

After leaving in 1961, I returned to the Extended SoCal Megalopolis in
1970, to attend UCSB. 

I spend time in the LA area, as my sister used to work at the
Troubador, and other places, and lived in Santa Monica (1977-88). And
my brother has lived in the LA area continuously since 1977, mostly in
Thousand Oaks, Westwood (UCLA), Santa Monica, Hermosa Beach, and, for
the past 8-9 years, Manhattan Beach. My parents lived at various times
in the LA area, mostly near Thousand Oaks.

So I visit LA a lot, and know the area. Possibly for years longer than
Arne Adolfsen has know the area...not that this matters, as "length of
time in an area" has never been a Usenet posting requirement.

And, honestly, I don't see Arnie posting independent reviews or
comments with even a fraction of the verve I see in the ba.food group.
(I moved to the Silicon Valley in 1974, to join a small company, and
have considered the Extended Bay Area my home ever since. Even so, I
sometimes get people saying that "ba.food" is for San Francisco or
maybe Sausalito or Berkeley posters, not for those living in the
hinterlands of Santa Rosa or Vallejo or Sunnyvale or Santa Cruz.)

Fact is, ba.food is for anyone who either lives in the roughly 130-mile
north-south between Healdsburg and Monterey, and inland appropriately.
Or for anyone who travesl to this area or has an interest in this area.

Ditto for la.eats, from roughly Santa Barbara down to San Diego (even
if they have have their own group, which they may) and inland to Palm
Springs.

And since I have eaten at, and commented on, various LA eateries
including felafel places in Westwood, a Russian deli in downtown,
various Cuban and Mexican and ribs places around the western area, and
even chains like Islands (which generated a long thread, longer than
most that Arnie Adolfsen has ever generated!), I am not at feeling
guilty for being off-topic. 

Finally, many who regularly post in ba.food have spent time (their
childhoods, their college years, later) in the LA area. We don't insult
them for their LA backgrounds. So you, Arnie, should take a lesson from
their playbook and stop insulting those you think are from some
contaminated northern province.

Though I sometimes kid around, and even insult, Meg, our loss in
ba.food is your gain. She will contribute a lot more reviews of LA
eateries than you, Arnie, ever do.

--Tim May