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Dominos, Orwell and Bloody Pizza Sauce
In just a few days we’ve seen a couple of dimwitted scumbags erode the brand’s credibility faster than you can say “Get the door, it’s Dominos.”
Unfortunately, George Orwell’s rule of thumb (”roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it”) never applied to pizza franchises.
As the backlash against the two coworkers guileless enough to upload videos of their back-room chicanery continues (now, to the point of Dominos apologizing and the duo facing felony charges) I’m reminded of his classic Down and Out in Paris and London and one of its themes, that the working class and poor have a special code amongst themselves binding them to reverence and respect when they’re in a service role for those at or equal to their station.
Of Barack and Burger King
Hope in the Jungle, originally uploaded by nparish.
Early last month, as the historic nature of our presidential election set in and the national night light grew a little brighter, images and stories of people celebrating all over the globe flooded in. I got to wondering.
How many people around the world DON’T know Barack Obama was elected president of the United States?
om nom nom
om nom nom, originally uploaded by nparish.
While I’m mid-chew at this week’s five borough-sourced dinner, Jeff sez: can you believe the sea salt isn’t locally sourced? Frakkin’ travesty.
Read more on the event at Creativity Online.
(And no this isn’t turning into an ego-tripping Tumblog; something of substance soon I promise.)
Video from the evening if you click through…
