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Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:21:21 -0500

I used to eat at Zocalo literally every other day. (It's just down the street from my apartment.) Then I found out that one of the bartenders is a Bush supporter, and I haven't been there for a month. (The thing he said that pissed me off the most was, "Well, I'm entitled to my opinion." As in, "I'm entitled not to listen to contrary facts and arguments." Yes, you're legally entitled to be an idiot and a terrible citizen and still vote, but I'm not going to support people like that. And I was frequently the only customer there in the afternoon, not having had time to eat lunch prior to class.) Nonetheless, I've been a little silly about all this, and I should start going back... but I'm not eating at the bar if that guy's tending. (It's not that I hate all Republicans, or even all Bush supporters. Some annoy me more than others.) I've never tried Copabanana, or whatever that place is. Though at my prior Philly apartment I lived just a few blocks down from a renowned (multi-best-of-Philly-awards-winning) cheap Mexican place. As well as Philly's most renowned cheap sushi place (which I was a little more ambivalent about... though it was great that I could pick up mochi just down the street).) As a teenager one of my favorite restaurants was a haute Mexican place in the suburbs---they claimed to serve the French-Mexican fusion cuisine developed during the French occupation of Mexico. They had incredible flan. Odd how hard it is to find, say, tilapia tacos around here. Or lime soup. But Philly's a pretty good ceviche town, between Pasion! and Alma de Cuba and the rest (though these are not Mexican...).

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