{"id":27234,"date":"2014-08-06T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:29:31","slug":"qotd-the-shame-of-the-american-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/qotd-the-shame-of-the-american-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The shame of the American breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a fine summer day, kind and blue. What shall I feel guilty about today? I know! Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>I had raisin bran. Wonderful, nutritious, unsustainable raisin bran. It was an old box, so most of the plump, unsustainable raisins had moved to the bottom. I also had sliced bananas, to indicate my complicity in global despoliation; juice from oranges whose existence should make me grey with shame; and milk saturated with the moral turpitude of immoral farm practices. And yet I ate it all, washed down with coffee that should have had UNFAIR TRADE stamped on the package, with a picture of Juan Valdez bent under a foreman\u2019s whip.<\/p>\n<p>At least the sausage was high-minded: I slaughtered the hog in the backyard and dressed the carcass, my arms bloody to the elbows; I ground the meat, noting with grim pleasure how the salt of my sweat would spice it. I packed the results into tidy patties, then put it in a box that said JIMMY DEAN and hid it in the grocery-store freezer, where I picked it up later. Really! If anyone asks, that\u2019s my story.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary to have a qualified defense of your breakfast, because there are people who are annoyed by it. Worried. Angered. YOU HAVE BANANAS. YOU SHOULDN\u2019T HAVE BANANAS.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/384185\/locavores-lament-james-lileks\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Locavore&#8217;s Lament&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a fine summer day, kind and blue. What shall I feel guilty about today? I know! Breakfast. I had raisin bran. Wonderful, nutritious, unsustainable raisin bran. It was an old box, so most of the plump, unsustainable raisins had moved to the bottom. I also had sliced bananas, to indicate my complicity in global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humour","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-75g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27235,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions\/27235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}