SOUPS AND SOAPS SHOULD MAINTAIN A RESPECTFUL DISTANCE!

By: J. Friendly

In the course of my occasional dining binges, I like to use "clean-tasting"
as a standard descriptive phrase as part of my running commentary for others
at the same table. This adds a little class to my connoisseur act and it
works especially well in restaurants that are notably precious.

But now there's a store called Lush that seems to get cleaning and tasting
totally confused. According to The New York Times (February 22), the newly
opened shop in New York's Herald Square stocks

"a selection of handmade,
preservative-free hair and skin care products packed with a grocery list of
fresh ingredients: grapes, papayas, ground almonds, olive oil, yogurt, honey
and mushrooms."

The Times continues:

"Handwritten signs, set amid fresh-cut soaps piled high
like blocks of cheese, list each ingredient. Products are marked with use-by
dates."

OK, OK, we get the idea!

But hold everything--this just in from the Twilight Zone News Service
(TZNS): "If Lush draws enough suckers--that is, paragons of good taste--to
pay inflated prices for this stuff, its investors hope to launch a chain of
less pricey stores out in the hinterlands. There, the 'grocery list of fresh
ingredents' will take a more down-home turn, as exemplified by bacon grease
and cream gravy. And toadstools will stand in for mushrooms on the theory
that these hicks don't know shit from shiitake (in sharp contrast to their
savvy and sophisticated urban counterparts)."

Comments

[Mr. Oi]

Ok after reading that post I can't write. I suck!