WALTER BRASCH: Food for Thought

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Food for Thought

July 13 2006
Counterbias.com
WALTER BRASCH


Let’s pretend it’s dinner time, and you’ve just developed a sudden craving for Mexican food.

Yesterday, it was Chinese. Tomorrow it may be Italian. But today, it’s Mexican.

And, while we’re pretending, let’s pretend that a four-star Mexican restaurant just opened around the corner.

You walk in, and the red-haired hostess politely greets you in impeccable British Standard English, seats you, and hands you a menu. At the top is a grilled American cheese sandwich. You can order it plain or with tomato (75 cents extra). Below are other specialties of the restaurant—pot roast, chicken pot pie, and fried liver with onions.

Thinking you got the wrong menu, or at least went to the wrong restaurant, you ask the blond-haired waiter to give you the Mexican menu.

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