| Re: Not sure exactly what you're driving at, but will try to answer -- RichAndPretty | |||||
| Posted by Galahad , Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:18:10 | Top of Thread | Reviews by Galahad | Archive | Main BigDoggie.net site | |
In my past I spent some time in New Orleans and during my time there I had a good friend whose family owned not only a small fishing fleet but also a restaurant which specialized in seafood.
On the menu was a dish "Fruits of the Bayou" and my friend always told me never to order it in their establishment. Most people think it is shrimp, crab, maybe a little fish. Never had it myself since I know enough when a restaurant owner tells you not to eat something to keep it away from your mouth.
Anyway a few months later I was headed home to the Midwest and wanted to take some fresh seafood with me so I went out on the boat and spent the morning (as a side note I learned I never wanted to work that hard for a living)on a fishing/shrimping boat.
When you drag the shrimp nets anything in the water, anything which is attracted to the same bait as shrimp comes onto the boat.
When the net is emptied you have frogs, turtles, fish of all sorts- including some which typically are not edible and some even less desirable creatures of the swamp. I learned that day what "fruits of the bayou" consisted.
So if Loquitor wants to call biased news reporting a commodity he can, if he wants to eat a snake head and a muskrat and think they are shrimp he can do that as well.
Like you stated if there was a void- if the only dish this restaurant served was FotB there would be such a void and something else ( another establsihment) would eventually appear and take its place. The key is one recognizing distortion when you see it (or in my case taste it) but you need to know a bit, be educated before you can make that determination.
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