"Goodbye to the Average American Eater"

[Dakki]

Link to "Goodbye to the Average American Eater"

tl;dr

-Ethnic and cultural composition in America has changed and fragmented to the point where restaurant owners can no longer cater to a mass market and must narrow their focus.

-"Average american" cuisine is disappearing ("average american" cuisine is, apparently, "roast beef and twice-baked potatoes and lobsters served with melted butter and a nutcracker"). This is bad.

-Alongside (or due to or maybe a totally unconnected phenomenon - the author is not really clear) this, there's a clear-cut dichotomy between people who eat offal and entrees arranged with tweezers on the one hand and people eating $1 cheeseburgers at the fast food chains on the other.

I have all kinds of problems with this article but I'll have to think about what I want to say before posting. Just putting this up for now so interested people can discuss it.

[lesliec]

From this distance I can't comment on whether the Average American Eater is an endangered species, but certainly apostophe abuse isn't:

... there were no more Lucy's or Dino's ...

I would hope that Time could do better.