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I had the good fortune to grow up when Have Gun Will Travel was first broadcast. One of my favorite episodes was Gun Shy, where Paladin travels to Montana and v
by Stratoscope 10y ago
I had the good fortune to grow up when Have Gun Will Travel was first broadcast. One of my favorite episodes was Gun Shy, where Paladin travels to Montana and visits Ma Warren's boarding house.
Ma's house was famous for its food. Paladin lived in San Francisco and enjoyed the city's finest, and he was surprised and delighted with what Ma Warren prepared in this remote area. She was obviously a talented cook, but Paladin wondered how she got such a variety of quality ingredients. She explained.
Ma knew all the local farmers and ranchers, and they would bring her their best produce and meats to serve in her boarding house. In return, she cooked for them too!
Ma didn't have a reputation for poisoning her customers.
I wonder if Chipotle's problems had to do with being a big nationwide chain trying to be hyper-local, instead of just being someone who knew her neighbors and what they grew?
- twoodfin 10y agoI'm pretty sure that health incidents due to food-borne pathogens have declined dramatically in the past 150 years. Eating at Chipotle is probably an order of magnitude safer on average than eating at the real "Ma Warren's" of 1875.
- akiselev 10y agoAbsolutely. We've learned a lot about cleanliness and transmission vectors in that time, especially after there was a whole progressive reform movement on food safety sparked by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (ironically, a book about the living conditions and exploitation of immigrants).
- dnautics 10y agoThere's also this effect that you hear when there's a chipotle incident anywhere in the country, but if there's a local grocery incident, it will either be local, or, not at all (because the victim count will be so low).