I was thinking more specifically about the activities of the
waitress/waiter, cooks, bus people. WHY do waiters and waitresses carry our
orders to a cook, bring us our food, take our money, clean up after us. It
provides work and an income, of course, and allows customers the experience
of being "waited on", but as a means of consuming food, whether alone or
with others, its a damn silly way to do it.
Kind of like modern classrooms. If I were TRYING to design an inefficient
and ineffective means of schooling children, I don't think I could do better
than what we have today......djc
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Hodges [mailto:dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:00 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Eating in restaurants
anthropologically speaking, eating together has always signalled a kind of
ritual or celebration,
that urban folks do it wih strangers and intimate friends or lovers
doesn't,
i don' t think, remove the value of ritualized eating. rural diners are
as much a social gathering place as they are a convenient eating place.
diane
"I want you to put the crayon back in my brain."
Homer Simpson
diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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