- Thought it was time for another good and
light editorial comment....
- When
you go into a restaurant and order your food, ever notice the
garnishments such as parsley, sage, pretty lettuce, etc? What do
you do with these garnishments? Yeah, I know that there are a few
strange folk that eat them, but for the most part, people just
chuck em' and forget em'. Can you imagine the emotional distress
that these plants go through, knowing that not only are they to be
killed for the simple value of being decoration on a plate, but
that they won't even be appreciated as plate art, and will be
simply cast aside in their final moments, only to see the smelly
bottom of some dumpster behind the restaurant, and then destined
for a fast trip to the dump.
- It's time for this slaughter to end!
Demand that restaurants cease this waste of vegetable matter. I
hear from vegetarians that they refuse to support the killing of
animals for purposes of meat and leather, as a non-vegan I must
believe that even vegans can't support the killing of vegetables
for the purposes of art. Especially bad art. How many chef's
genuinely have a knack, talent, or even desire to use green matter
to create art? I submit that most chefs simply throw the
garnishment on the plate, without a second thought as to the
'architecture of the plate' as it's known in France. I submit that
most chefs simply view garnishment as a pain in the backside. I
submit that most chefs, cooks, and laborers at the local Denny's,
Village Inn, TGI Friday's would just simply be happier people if
they didn't have to deal with the hassle of 'decorating' plates
and simply serve good, solid, and tasty food.
- More importantly, if allowed to live,
these plants give off valuable oxygen, reforming carbon dioxides
into oxygen needed to sustain life. Studies will show that the
rise in attendance at mid-level food restaurants, the greatest
abusers of this vegetable life form, is directly related to the
decline in the ozone layer and global warming. I know I read
something along these lines written by Al Gore or someone like him
at one time.
- Slaughtering these plants for more
attractive meals is akin to painting a cow so the cheese tasts
better. Now, I know you are laughing at this point, because the
idea of painting a cow is so incredibly silly, that no one in
their right mind would do such a thing. (who said I'm in my right
mind?)
- Aside and apart from all this, if
patrons of such restaurants MUST have these decorations on their
plates, (why, I could never be convinced to understand) then I
support the use of plastics for this endeavor. It may be rewashed
after each meal, along with the reusable knives, forks, spoons,
plates, and paper napkins.
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme were meant
to be sung about, not killed for the purpose of art. Art is meant
to inspire, to give breath to life, to create thoughts otherwise
unthunk. Is any one really inspired by a limp, dead piece of
parsley? If so, to you I say, "Get a life!"
- Write your local congressman and senator! We must ALL work
together to end the senseless slaugher of vegetable matter for the
sake of 'plate art!'
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