Halls of the Dark Muse

I am sure that it would come as no surprise considering my environmental consciousness that I have taken on the practice of replacing many of the old products and brands I used to use more and more when organic alternatives whenever possible, as organics are better both your ones personal health as well as the environment.

While I was eating dinner I had the idea come to me, though it is a purely hypothetical idea, that if I were to open my own restaurant, it would in fact be an all organic restaurant and all food products served within would be organics. Though of course I could never actually run my own restaurant as much as I enjoy dealing with the public, and as patient as I am with the public, and as good as I am at withholding my opinions. I know just from my personal experience as a patron in restaurants that restaurants in particular seem to often draw a patricianly annoying and obnoxious brand of people.

There have been times when just listening to people at a table next to mine, when I don't even have to personally deal with them, I have been tempted to just turn around at yell at them. "You ignoramuses why don't you just read the menu for yourself, is that too complicated for you to handle?" So if I had to deal with that on a daily basis and have it directed at me, it would not be long before someone ended up with a jug of water dumped over their head at the very least of it. And even people who have a passion for the culinary arts, and that is their calling, strongly advise against anyone getting into the restaurant business. So it is not something one could just do on the whim because of a personal fancy.

Though one of the things that helped sparked the little fantasy, is the fact that one of the changes I have made was to using only organic ketchup. For the obvious health and environmental benefits, as well as the fact that Heinz (though there are other brands, that is the most common one and the one I formally used) does in fact have poor social and environmental practices. I have this little consumers guide book that grades companies, for just about every kind of product there is, on a scale of A+ to F- based on their social and environmental records, and Heinz as D-.

Also I can say, (and this surprised even me) that organic ketchup really does taste better than the processed stuff, I am not a big fan of tomato and I thought that without all the fake chemicals it would just taste really tomatoey but it really does have a great flavor, so even taking everything else out of the picture, I would prefer the organic for purely taste reasons.

But I love french fries, they are my bane, and so anytime I go out to eat and order a sandwich, or some other dish that offers french fries as possible side, of course I have to go with the fries, but of course, all restaurants use Heinz ketchup and I know they do it for cost efficiency, but because of this I just can't just ketchup anymore when I go out to eat, and I always think how cool it would be to go somewhere that actually had a bottle of organic ketchup sitting on the table and that got me thinking that an all organics restaurant would be awesome.