two-thirds spiked with some
Sunday types. All priced at
faunting. We ordered a frothy
more popular strawberry
b experience volume dining.
Victoria. It was well-stocked
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fourses, Bonanza and Ponderosa.
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Bame single-minded quest.
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plate in hand. Stacking more
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more. I wondered if it was
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practice a Roman feast in the 90s. The Roman approach was to —_ Grant Black is a Douglas College Print Futures student who recently finished a

simply vomit to make room for more.

Allaround me, people shovelled Cantonese and not-so-Can-
tonese food into their greedy maws. This was conspicuous con-
sumption in its most base form. Sure, they could have brunched
at a restaurant with perfect portions, weighed on a kitchen scale.
But that would leave out the huge variety factor, the ability to
make a greater number of conscious food choices. I was a partici-
pant in the freedom of choice. And I made a choice to bea pig. I
felt sick.

North America consumers, in fact the whole world, have
discovered more nice things to buy, to enjoy, to covet; manu-
facturers and marketers have most people figured out
by now. Hyper-consumption, fuelled by uncer-
tainty, hurtles us toward the millennium, the
march into the 21st century. That Sunday, out
for a simple brunch, I found the stomach
version of Costco.

Consume and you will find your per-
sonal utopia in the Brave New World. All]
found wasa place full of dull-eyed, bovine
troughers. Worst of all, I jostled
amongst them.

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