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It is the 18th of October, A.D. 2018, 4 PM Mountain Standard Time. I am just south of Indian School Road on Central, at Yoshi’s, a little fast-ethnic-food restaurant whose slogan is “Have a Rice Day.” I’ve just had their Dragon Bowl in the Beef incarnation, so I am full of spicy roast beef and rice and carrot slivers and onion rims and bell pepper chunks, plus thin-sliced marinated ginger which is one of their offered condiments. I washed it down with Pepsi from the fountain.

Here in the American Southwest, if you say “Omma go get some neat,” you think you said “I am going to get something to eat.” So today my double acrostic pokes fun at my Southwestern accent.

Some Neat

Sí is Yes & No is Nein

One may say I’m hai to dine

Minor Food Gods, hear my plea

Elevate me to a T

Sí is Spanish for Yes, Nein is German for No, and Hai is Japanese for Yes. Hai is meant to be a pun on High as well. To be High is to be elevated with the help of chemistry, or romance, or life’s pleasure.

The library is closing in 15 minutes, so this will be brief. Four weeks ago I became employed by a corporation that manages several restaurant chains. In the course of my employ I’ve been on my feet every working minute, and have not only lost several pounds but have also had a good insider’s look at what happens in a quality restaurant. When a customer spontaneously says “It was wonderful” or “That’s the been airport food I’ve ever had” on her or his way out, and that’s happened many times in these weeks, it means much more than that they had a good meal. They traded a segment of their irreplaceable lifetime and were happy with value received, even though they could have saved money and time with alternative sources of nutrition. That well-being will improve their digestion, their outlook on life, and (given that we cook from scratch with fresh, top-of-the-line ingredients) their very bodies, incorporating the ingested nutrient into their cell structures. Win-win-win–almost Zennish.