Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso
and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a
pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close
to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian
friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in
the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF!
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:53 PM, Richard J. Williams
<pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
You really made the TMers in Fairfield look stupid today, with their
'Immortality' courses', although you fibbed about it, good work!
Did anyone notice that Barry didn't deny he was living in a food
desert most of the time? Why do you think he spends so much time
in cafes instead of at grocery stores? LoL!
On 10/19/2013 1:21 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>I love these. Yelp is often the "lowest common denominator,"
>which is not always a bad thing. I think it's good for
those who
>consider themselves above the masses to find out what the
>masses think of them and their taste.
>
>You should see some of the reviews of some of the
supposedly
>swanky places to eat in Paris. :-)
>
>Written by food cretins, admittedly, but still...funny
food cretins.
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote:
>>
>> I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp.
This set of
>reviews is hilarious:
>>
>> Thai Deli
>> 120 West Broadway
>> Fairfield, IA
>>
>> Review from Mango D.,
>> Las Vegas, NV
>> 9/16/2006
>> 5.0 star rating
>> This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make
sure you come in
>when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough
of the creamy
>coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well.
They both go
>great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good
sparingly when
>super fresh.
>> I cannot find anything like this in California.
Sigh... Fairfield,
>must you taunt me so!
>>
>> Review from Nicholas J.
>> San Francisco, CA
>> 1/12/2010
>> 1.0 star rating.
>> The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like
this in
>California is because you can usually find actual Thai
people
>voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country,
and very few
>of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the
watered-down
>Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to
pass off as
>an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain
their longevity,
>I would have to say that I believe they remain in business
primarily
>because of the cult school up the road--an institution
which seems to
>supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews
fans, all of
>whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a
map after
>hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes
their hippie
>parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a
dream.
>>
>> Review from Max S.
>> Fairfield, IA
>> 5/24/2009
>> 2.0 star rating
>> It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow.
>>
>> Review from Will M.
>> Seattle, WA
>> 7/23/2010
>> 1.0 star rating
>> They nickname this place "Thai Smelly". It's small
town Midwest
>buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's
dirt cheap for
>a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place
survives - I
>wouldn't eat here if it was free.
>>
>> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
>wrote:
>>
>> Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on
Tuesday. It took
>you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a
food oasis?
>>
>> It's funny, because even though I don't live in
Fairfield, it would
>have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a
food oasis.
>>
>> Share wrote:
>>
>> > Richard, I've been thinking about this concept
of food deserts
>since you first
>> > posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF!
I could definitely
>walk to our
>> > local health food store though it would take
about 15 to 20
>minutes. There is
>> > another one on campus just outside the women's
Dome so that's also
>a
>> > possibility. We have a locally owned convenience
store/gas station,
>Logli's
>> > and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh
and Farmers Market
>> > twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local.
Yay Fairfield!
>>
>
>
