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In article <1993Jan26.172037.2804@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.120132.21873@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
>}	Going back to food, the U.S. offers some of the worst sausage
>}	it has ever been my dubious privilege to taste.  Oscar Meyer
>}	would cause riots in the streets in Poland, never mind Germany.
>
>Ah, but that is our *chief* advantage, you see. The unwashed masses
>may eat Oscar Meyer sausages, drink Budweiser beer, and eat Velveeta
>brand processed American cheese-like (not!) food-style product, but
>I don't. And why not? BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO, here in the SF bay
>area.
>
>What America lacks in the large commercial advertised arena it more
>than makes up for in small local businesses, many of them run by
>Nth-generation immigrants, where N is a small number. So I get my
>sausages at one of several local German delis, I get my beer from
>local microbreweries, and I get my cheese from local organic dairies.
>I also get my Thai food at restaurants run by Thai immigrants, my
>Vietnamese food at Vietnamese-run restaurants, and my Japanese cooking
>ingredients at a large local Japanese-run grocery.
>
>I have these wonderful nearly-infinite choices of locally-produced
>good quality foods, yet I still have the advantage of the electronics
>and clothing and myriad other consumer goods mass-produced in this
>country. So the American advantage is that the things we lack on a
>national scale can usually be made here by small businesses run by
>people who know how to do them right, whereas the things that Europe
>lacks would require huge capital investment and large factories.
>
>And, yes, Iowa is horrible, but America is so huge and diverse (despite
>the raging on-slaught of generic television and fast food franchises)
>that one can choose to live in some place almost, but not quite,
>completely unlike Iowa, yet remain in the same country.
>-- 
>Curtis Jackson			'91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
>cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com	'92 Collie/Golden "George"
>DoD #721	KotB		'91 Hawk GT	'81 Maxim 650
>"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." -- J. Buffett
At risk of being flamed off the net by all these midewest-haters, I'd like
to firmly assert that Iowa is really not too bad.
sue b.
iowa state u.