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Friday, March 10, 2023

I'd be a fantastic restauranteur

My customers would rave
this beloved community superstar
has no idea how to run the best
restaurant in town. My menu
and approach to service would
be
ostentatious:
bold and plain, minimalist
and not too elegant! Meals there
(or "here") would be intended
to occasion joy, luxury
- no complaints.

My menu (or daily specials board)
would tell it like you get:

classic burrito beans n' cheese, bacon
n' lettuce, tomato and fried beef patty
scramble with ketchup, light mayo
and light, crispy french-fried potatoes,
all wrapped up tight in the de rigueur
tortilla - "burrito style"

bowl our classic burrito, ripped open and
dumped in a bowl. Ask for our original tortilla,
moist with sauce and grease drippings, delicious
blots of melty cheese, stained to transparency and
torn in a couple places if you don't believe this
was once a burrito

Like so,
so much moreso,
though. Like a warning
in italics running up the side
of the laminate: try our famous
boiled sandwiches

- point is,
"beloved fixture and microculinary icon"
doesn't even cover it. The Savage Bistro,
I was going to call it years ago, decades
now, but

I talked it up too much, and put it into
Google so many times “just to check”
no doubt they found out about it, or
somebody did, and I've been ripped
off since,

I bet

so forget it
bad idea

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