Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
We looked at this place today - it needs a little fixing up. [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away -- it's 10 miles in rural areas -- and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert [image: Inline image 1] Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL! [image: Inline image 1]
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You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. If you have to walk more than a mile to get some groceries, it would be a good thing to stay awhile and talk while you do your shopping. Make sure to bring along some nice eco paper bags to put your stuff in. LoL! FYI: The three most popular items at most small stores and where 90% of profits are: 1. Marlboro cigarettes 2. Budweiser beer 3. Coca-Cola [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. [image: Inline image 1] Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert [image: Inline image 1] Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: ** You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL! [image: Inline image 1]
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So far you haven't done anything but confirm my opinion of Texas and those who dwell there. You have to admit it's kind of fun to poke people in the eye with where they live. Good work! On 10/21/2013 8:50 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Yeah, you really poked the Fairfield vegie health nut cultist TMers in the eye with that story about eating the pigs and hog skins where you're from. Good work! But, everyone knows they raise lots of hogs in North Carolina and up there in Iowa. And, everyone knows they eat cow heads down in San Antonio. So what? The only question is, do you eat GM hogs? LoL! Richard, you're such a goink. You laugh at the stupidest self-made 'jokes'. Talk about a waste of band width or whatever it is you're concerned with. So far you haven't done anything but confirm my opinion of Texas and those who dwell there. On 10/19/2013 3:46 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote 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 is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto: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!
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Richard, so far, according to FFL, the bad places to live are Texas, New Jersey, FF, South Carolina, Paris and expensive places on the US east and west coasts. What we need is a competent location jyotishi to tell us where the good lines are for FFL (-: On Monday, October 21, 2013 8:56 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: So far you haven't done anything but confirm my opinion of Texas and those who dwell there. You have to admit it's kind of fun to poke people in the eye with where they live. Good work! On 10/21/2013 8:50 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Yeah, you really poked the Fairfield vegie health nut cultist TMers in the eye with that story about eating the pigs and hog skins where you're from. Good work! But, everyone knows they raise lots of hogs in North Carolina and up there in Iowa. And, everyone knows they eat cow heads down in San Antonio. So what? The only question is, do you eat GM hogs? LoL! Richard, you're such a goink. You laugh at the stupidest self-made 'jokes'. Talk about a waste of band width or whatever it is you're concerned with. So far you haven't done anything but confirm my opinion of Texas and those who dwell there. On 10/19/2013 3:46 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote 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 is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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
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Bhairitu, Thai Deli is owned by a young, very sweet couple from SE Asia. Previously it was owned by her father and step mother. But then the older couple started another Thai restaurant. And the step mother was an excellent cook. A few years ago, the older couple sold to an Indian family and moved away so that she could be close to her family. I think they're in Chicago or Des Moines. The Indian family has kept some of the Thai recipes and they have also gone organic: Green Gourmet. Back to Thai Deli, over the years the young couple has done a lot to improve the restaurant ambiance and food. They are a dear part of the community. I can think of three Indian restaurants in FF and they definitely range in quality. One also has a restaurant in Iowa City and the food there is spicier than what they serve in FF. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant which indeed reminded me of many of the pasta restaurants around here except for the ones run by expatriate Italians. We have one really good Trattoria about 2 miles from here that I like to take out-of-town folks to. On 10/19/2013 10:16 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto: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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto: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!
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Yeah, you really poked the Fairfield vegie health nut cultist TMers in the eye with that story about eating the pigs and hog skins where you're from. Good work! But, everyone knows they raise lots of hogs in North Carolina and up there in Iowa. And, everyone knows they eat cow heads down in San Antonio. So what? The only question is, do you eat GM hogs? LoL! On 10/19/2013 3:46 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote 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 is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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!
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There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. [image: Inline image 1] Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert [image: Inline image 1] Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: ** You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL! [image: Inline image 1]
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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! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:37 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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!
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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!
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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!
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Oh, that is kind of funny. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: 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! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
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Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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!
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Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant which indeed reminded me of many of the pasta restaurants around here except for the ones run by expatriate Italians. We have one really good Trattoria about 2 miles from here that I like to take out-of-town folks to. On 10/19/2013 10:16 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 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!
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that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote 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 is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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!
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Every town and village is interesting but most cities like Paris suck - if you live downtown you're probably living in a food desert. The existence of numerous cafes and restaurants notwithstanding. Most poor people, which is almost everyone who lives in a city, don't eat their main meals at fancy, expensive restaurants. Let's review the definition of a food desert: A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, especially those who do not have a means of transportation like a car. There are food deserts in rual areas and in cities where low-income communities don't have access to supermarkets so they can get their food at reasonable prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert On 10/19/2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: 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! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
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Yeah, there's a fave about three blocks from here. Lots of Buddhist art and really good food. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant which indeed reminded me of many of the pasta restaurants around here except for the ones run by expatriate Italians. We have one really good Trattoria about 2 miles from here that I like to take out-of-town folks to. On 10/19/2013 10:16 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto: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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto: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!
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Isn't it spelled with a 'C'? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:37 AM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL!
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Cracked me up! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote 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 is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto: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!
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Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert [image: Inline image 1] Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: ** You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL! [image: Inline image 1]
