Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Politics of Dining

a shoutout to happyhead, thanks for this:

Anarchy: All the food is piled in the middle of the room and it's every person for themselves.

Theocracy: Your Pastor invites himself to dinner with you on Friday and forces everyone to eat fish.

Dictatorship: A single customer and his goons overthrow the restaurant and take control over the food. People that join or support them get better food. Those that don't, starve or get crappy food.

Monarchy: A family run restaurant that has been passed down through the generations. Every generation the restaurant is different. Some owners were kind and fair, charged reasonable prices for good food. Other owners were tyrants that overcharged the customers and served them slop. Some were just horribly inept or insane and pretty much ruined it.

Fascism: The restaurant rules with an iron hand. You eat whatever they decide to serve or you "leave".

Communism: Everyone gets the exact same meal (but if you hand the waiter a $20 he will bring out better food and dessert).

Oligarchy: The management is from a different restaurant chain. So that's why you see tacos and refried beans at a Chinese Buffet.

Republic: A party of customers votes on which one of them goes up and orders the food for the entire table.

Democracy: A party of customers all vote and argue over what dish ALL of them will have to eat. Two hours go by and they still haven't decided.

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