A decent meal was had today and there were these leftovers at the bottom of the rice pot. In a tradition passed down from certain old Puerto Rican matriarchs, scraping out the bottom yielded the most flavorful and crunchy section of the meal. I thought what a great idea it would be to open a place feeding the poor and hungry these scraps.
We’d make them deliciously attractive with a little culinary magic. Yea, and instead of charging more for the magic, we charge less and make up for it with the volume of consumers. That’s when it hit me.
Point by point the idea was refining further as I was chowing down on these scraps. But idea was going absolutely nowhere because the folks I was talking to were very busy watching Everyone Loves Raymond.
This is the trend I picked up, at the microcosm of some makeshift dinner table in a low in come neighborhood, for 2012. A not so small part of American society will go or remain broke and hungry. And the rest of us will be drifting blindly, carelessly, without much resistance to some real bad (but “surprising”) story as we all kind of cling on to some regularly scheduled program.
In the meantime, here’s some folks who are making something out of those scraps. I’m glad I wasn’t just crazy. I’m prone to have a cool idea or two.
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