Comments on: Slow Food Nation Tries Not to Be So Bourgeois http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/ DISCOVER covers environmental news from every content of the globe and every corner of the blogosphere. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:47:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cheap Broadway Show Tickets http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-4730 Cheap Broadway Show Tickets Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:09:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/#comment-4730 <strong>Cheap Broadway Show Tickets</strong> What a great ticket resource. Found last minute tickets to Nemo on Ice and they were sold out! Great alternative to nasty old Ticketmaster! I think they sell concerts and sports tickets too. Cheap Broadway Show Tickets

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]]> By: Cheap Broadway Show Tickets http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-4731 Cheap Broadway Show Tickets Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:09:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/#comment-4731 <strong>Cheap Broadway Show Tickets</strong> What a great ticket resource. Found last minute tickets to Nemo on Ice and they were sold out! Great alternative to nasty old Ticketmaster! I think they sell concerts and sports tickets too. Cheap Broadway Show Tickets

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]]> By: Erin Davis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Erin Davis Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:52:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/09/01/slow-food-nation-tries-not-to-be-so-bourgeois/#comment-1159 Slow Food Nation might get support for "more farmers working less efficiently" if they're big show had been a little more efficient. All I learned from the Taste Pavilions is that slow food is a rip off. I will gladly pay for food that is sustainable farmed and harvested by workers making a living wage. What I will not ever again gladly pay for is the opportunity to enter a disorganized event centered around standing in line. The Slow Food Nation event at Ft. Mason was awful. The "slow dough" was never advertised -- the original tickets made it seem like you would have the opportunity to taste everything. In the end for us, though, the limits from the slow dough didn't even cause the biggest problem. We had plenty left over after spending 3.5 hours to visit 4 pavilions due to the lines. And worse yet, the lines were not marked nor was there anyone there to direct you. At our last tasting pavilion, ice cream, we waited around thinking we were going to blow our last little slow dough circles on a bowl, only to find out we had entered the free taste line, where all you got was a little spoonful. And of course, showing our tickets and asking the worker to just go ahead and give us a bowl didn't work. Now, we would have gotten in other line and done some more waiting at this point (we were pros by this point in the evening!), but even though it was 8:55pm, they had closed down the line. I will spend the rest of this week making sure everyone I meet knows to never support this organization again. I thought we were supporting slow food. Instead, we were supporting a bunch of rip off artists. Go to the farmers' market, go to Whole Foods, plant a garden. Do anything but support Slow Food Nation is you want anything other than to waste your money. Slow Food Nation might get support for “more farmers working less efficiently” if they’re big show had been a little more efficient. All I learned from the Taste Pavilions is that slow food is a rip off. I will gladly pay for food that is sustainable farmed and harvested by workers making a living wage. What I will not ever again gladly pay for is the opportunity to enter a disorganized event centered around standing in line. The Slow Food Nation event at Ft. Mason was awful. The “slow dough” was never advertised — the original tickets made it seem like you would have the opportunity to taste everything. In the end for us, though, the limits from the slow dough didn’t even cause the biggest problem. We had plenty left over after spending 3.5 hours to visit 4 pavilions due to the lines. And worse yet, the lines were not marked nor was there anyone there to direct you. At our last tasting pavilion, ice cream, we waited around thinking we were going to blow our last little slow dough circles on a bowl, only to find out we had entered the free taste line, where all you got was a little spoonful. And of course, showing our tickets and asking the worker to just go ahead and give us a bowl didn’t work. Now, we would have gotten in other line and done some more waiting at this point (we were pros by this point in the evening!), but even though it was 8:55pm, they had closed down the line.

I will spend the rest of this week making sure everyone I meet knows to never support this organization again. I thought we were supporting slow food. Instead, we were supporting a bunch of rip off artists. Go to the farmers’ market, go to Whole Foods, plant a garden. Do anything but support Slow Food Nation is you want anything other than to waste your money.

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