The little town in which I live is celebrating the “Slow Food” movement (Cittaslow”) this weekend. The movement began in 1986 as a protest against McDonalds opening a unit near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Today, there are chapters in 150 countries and over 300 Cittaslow organizations in small towns in Italy. “Slow” does not refer to service…it refers to a lifestyle of: Relaxed, Natural, Healthful and Taste. You won’t find ‘Processed Foods’ on the Cittaslow menu. Since its inception the Movement has strayed, (as Movements will) into such aberrations as trying to save the bees and the farmers and things like that. I imagine the Big Ag people in the U.S. would accuse this group of being members of: Antifa, (Question:where is Antifa? Who is its head? etc?), or Commies, or Woke Nut Jobs.) But I see a lot of Americans down there in my Piazza today, enjoying themselves with all the Nut Jobs and Woke food eaters. I know the ones who are American because they are eating the Slow Food as fast as they can. Probably 50.4 % of them are MAGAs and they don’t even know what they are eating.
Some Quores:
- “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French Lawyer, -1826
- “Der Mensch ist, was er ißt.” -[“Man is what he eats”] Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach -1863
- “You are what you eat”. -Victor Lindlahr, American nutritionist, 1942
- “Never eat more than you can lift.” -Miss Piggy
- “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” -Sophia Loren
- “If I’m going to eat fast food, I’m going to McDonald’s. I don’t need to pretend.” -Chrissy Teige
- “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” -Fran Lebowitz“
- “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” -Ronald Reagan (I wonder how DJT eats his jellybeans…I really don’t want to know.)
