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It is August. This is when snoburbia clears out and heads for other snoburbias in more beautiful settings - beaches, mountains, deserts.
First, you must arrive at an airport and slum it with everyone else. You will rent a car and drive for many moons through towns with Walmart and Family Dollar.
With great relief, you will know you finally have arrived at vacation snoburbia when you go into the local cafe and it lists a "quinoa* wrap with pesto and spinach." Thank God - normal food!
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*If you do not know how to pronounce "quinoa," you are not from snoburbia.
You always nail it so well! If you don't know how to pronounce "quinoa", well then, just go eat at Subway.
Posted by: kate | August 08, 2012 at 05:18 PM
I know how to pronounce it--keen' wah. That doesn't mean I want to eat it. And I LIKE Subway (we do here in Outer Snoburbia)!
Posted by: Doris | August 09, 2012 at 06:43 AM
Everyone knows how to pronounce "quinoa" from watching the Whole Foods parking lot video:
http://www.fogandsmog.com/whole-foods-parking-lot/
Posted by: yamster | August 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Actually I learned to pronounce it watching Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels! She may eat it; I won't.
Posted by: Doris | August 12, 2012 at 04:40 PM
But quinoa tastes so good! And it is a seed, not a grain, so it is high protein. That makes it a good carb side dish substitute for diabetics and other people who limit their carbs. Win-win!
I am so not snoburbian in many ways, but on food I fall right in line. I can slum it at Subway, but a quinoa, spinach, and pesto wrap sounds much better.
Posted by: Queen of the Weezils | August 13, 2012 at 06:03 AM
Ha ha! So accurate! Would that we had such wraps here in Wheaton.
Posted by: Eve in Slumburbia | August 17, 2012 at 08:40 AM
Aren't grains seeds?
Posted by: Doris | August 19, 2012 at 03:12 AM
Quinoa tastes good if it's prepared well, you can find many recipes to make a fantastic dish.
Posted by: imageden kris | August 29, 2012 at 05:42 AM
Your blog starts "It is August." Well, now it is October. Time for a new blog. How about the Nationals going to the playoffs as a topic? Not Snoburban enough? Of the 30,000 plus fans at each game, surely some were from Snoburbia. Ryan Zimmerman lives in Snoburbia!
Posted by: Doris | October 03, 2012 at 02:51 AM
Missing your blogs! Need it to keep my sanity while living in a *gasp!* 2br condo in Bethesda.
I am so tired of the cell-phone yacking, big ass SUV driving snoburban moms. And yet, I live on their turf.
Pleeeeease more blogs, merci!
Posted by: Flo | October 11, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Quinoa catching on with gringos has had both good and bad results. The good results: the price goes up, and farmers are getting more for their crops. The bad:
"Yet the higher prices quinoa is fetching have had an unanticipated impact where the grain is grown. Some local children are showing signs of malnutrition because their parents have substituted rice and noodles for quinoa in the family diet, said Walter Severo, president of a quinoa producer's group in southwest Bolivia."
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/01/07/quinoas-rising-popularity-means-boom-bolivian-farmers/#ixzz2EIBogeyp
Posted by: mistah charley, ph.d. | December 06, 2012 at 09:07 AM