Forgotten Goodness - CAFÉ FUSION (426 hits)
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Submitted by <Calios> (View user info) at 2005-03-25 20:47:56 EST
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This is not my work, I found it on a backup tape
from a few years ago. I think it may be from www.notmydesk.com
but I cant be sure. Either way, I think it's pretty cool
and I hope you like it.
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Every few weekends, I'll actually wake up before
2pm and get myself a decent breakfast. I don't
mean "decent" as far as nutrition goes, I mean
decent as "something better than cold pizza."
Usually, I'll hit a place a few blocks from
me called "Happy Wonder Burger Coffee Shop",
which is your basic greasy spoon: blank white
walls, crappy chairs and cheap tablecloths, etc.
It's run by a pleasant but tired-looking old
Asian couple, and its menu features items like:
Two Egg Scrambles Make With Cheese: $2.50
Pancake with Bacons OR Sausage AND 4 Toast Piece: $3.99
Coffee Free Re-Fill, OJ Juice, Milks: .99
You've probably eaten at places like that. A
nyway, it's good for a hot, fast,
artery-hardening yet tasty breakfast,
and it's generally not crowded.
Sunday morning, however, I got up early,
and headed over to Happy Wonder Burger Coffee Shop
and found, to my surprise, that the sign no longer
said Happy Wonder Burger Coffee Shop. Instead, it said:
CAFÉ FUSION
Café Fusion? What the hell?
Had Happy Wonder Burger gone yuppie?
It wouldn't be too surprising.
A few years ago, there were plans in my quaint
little town to wipe out a couple blocks worth
of retail shops and small restaurants, and put
in places like Pottery Barn, Gap, and a multiplex.
I wasn't sure how I felt about this; I mean,
I'd love to have a movie theater nearby (there are two,
but neither of them are operating), but I do like the
quaint nature of the town, and the parking is already
bad enough as it is. Plus, this was all slated to happen
about a block away from my apartment, so I'd have
to live with the daily construction racket. In any case,
the plans were vetoed by the city council or zoning board
or whoever votes on these kinds of things.
But Café Fusion? Were corporate interests making another
attempt to infiltrate the town? Subversively this time,
whacking out the Wonder Happy Burger Coffee Shops and their ilk,
one by one, sapping them on the back of the head and dragging
them off into the alley? Was Café Fusion a spore of the
conglomerate, wafting gently and innocently in, nonchalantly
finding purchase, and sitting there unnoticed for a while,
before sinking its roots in, multiplying, and finally
spreading like a black merciless unholy yet extremely
fashionable cancer across my town?
Well, who gives a shit? I needed some French Toast, stat.
I went into Café Fusion, and found the same blank walls.
The same crappy chairs and cheap tablecloths.
The menu had the same sort of items:
Eggs Ommlett makes with Ham OR Cheese AND Bacons: $3.99
The only difference? A slightly older tired-looking
yet pleasant Asian couple was running the place.
I guess they just thought "Fusion" sounded good.
And it does! I'm actually thinking about making up
some flyers for Café Fusion, hip, trendy-looking flyers,
and posting them all over the San Francisco Financial District.
There's a bench across the street, and it might be fun to sit
out one morning and see the BMW's and SUVs pull up, crammed with
yuppies, and watch them go into the place with their cellphones
and laptops, expecting tofu and smoothies and frappuccinos, and
instead, getting a nice plateful of Eggs Ommlett makes with Ham.
OR Bacons.
User Reviews
Submitted by J4M3S (user info) at 2005-04-20 09:45:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
LOL! I know a place like this.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-25 21:51:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
WTF I'm not reading all of that.
But have a +2 for no reason!
Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2005-03-25 21:41:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Marge, you're my wife and I love you very much. But you're living in a
world of makebelieve. With flowers and bells and leprechauns. And magic
frogs with funny little hats...
-- Homer Simpson
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Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2005-03-25 21:19:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Joemama (user info) at 2005-03-25 21:06:53 EST (#)
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