texaslion's blog post - An interesting conversation

I had an interesting conversation today, although it was brief it was very telling. In fact, I think I discovered a new term or group for sociologist to use. The term is Global Provincialism.

The conversation was with a world traveler and it was about food. Well when the person revealed they like tuscan food I mentioned that there was an excellent tuscan restaurant locally here in texas. Well now the first reaction was: In Texas?

So later I asked the person if they had seen the link. They responded yes and started to laugh by saying ... "you can't even buy a bus transfer ticket for those prices." The tone and the phrasing itself suggested the only good restaurants are the really the over priced ones. Now honestly, it is all about the food first and perhaps good food at an affordable price is something you don't see the merit in but hey that is more a statement of you than of me. So you can throw your money away on the over priced chic and I will invest mine in the delicious and wonderfully cooked, presented food at the local tuscan restaurant. Culinary snobery at its best, lol. I was about to say their loss but in fact it is the others patrons gain. So maybe it isn't a bad thing after all.

Bon apetite.