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	<title>Comments on: Food and the Search for Authenticity</title>
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		<title>By: Billy W</title>
		<link>http://www.awh.org/2009/02/21/food-and-the-search-for-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-336</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, at least we Americans got the Australian authenticity down with Outback Steakhouse ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, at least we Americans got the Australian authenticity down with Outback Steakhouse <img src='http://www.awh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
		<link>http://www.awh.org/2009/02/21/food-and-the-search-for-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-319</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 13:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, nice blog.  I&#039;ve had similar experiences, even around Kanagawa (which has lots of foreigners, so you&#039;d think they&#039;d be better about this sort of thing).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, nice blog.  I&#8217;ve had similar experiences, even around Kanagawa (which has lots of foreigners, so you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d be better about this sort of thing).</p>
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		<title>By: freedomwv</title>
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		<dc:creator>freedomwv</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>atmosphere is important  for that kind of place. Maybe they were trying to do wild west pizza so something. Actually, today is my last day working at Nerima. If I return it will be to do management stuff. I will miss the place. The people are nice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>atmosphere is important  for that kind of place. Maybe they were trying to do wild west pizza so something. Actually, today is my last day working at Nerima. If I return it will be to do management stuff. I will miss the place. The people are nice.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonadab the Unsightly One</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jonadab the Unsightly One</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;stick random stuff on the walls&quot; school of restaurant decor is very popular in the States.  

The Subway restaurant in Rittman, OH (population: a few thousand) has enormous black-and-white historical skyline photos of some really big city (might be NYC, not sure) covering all the walls from floor to ceiling.

I&#039;ve seen a restaurant that served (Americanized) Italian food, but the decor was decidedly Early American.  This was in Ohio, so really neither of those things would generally be considered foreign.  I found it slightly odd, but at least the decor was consistent with itself.  

Sometimes you&#039;ll see things that don&#039;t seem related at all, like mechanical stuff on one wall and vintage glassware on another.  In extreme cases each thing on the walls seems totally unrelated to most or all of the others, e.g., you might see a tin washtub, a mosaic depiction of the Acropolis in small ceramic tiles, a summer-camp T-shirt, a lobster trap, and a garden rake, all on the same restaurant wall.  I just made up this specific example out of whole cloth, but I&#039;ve seen restaurant walls that were just about that mixed up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;stick random stuff on the walls&#8221; school of restaurant decor is very popular in the States.  </p>
<p>The Subway restaurant in Rittman, OH (population: a few thousand) has enormous black-and-white historical skyline photos of some really big city (might be NYC, not sure) covering all the walls from floor to ceiling.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen a restaurant that served (Americanized) Italian food, but the decor was decidedly Early American.  This was in Ohio, so really neither of those things would generally be considered foreign.  I found it slightly odd, but at least the decor was consistent with itself.  </p>
<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll see things that don&#8217;t seem related at all, like mechanical stuff on one wall and vintage glassware on another.  In extreme cases each thing on the walls seems totally unrelated to most or all of the others, e.g., you might see a tin washtub, a mosaic depiction of the Acropolis in small ceramic tiles, a summer-camp T-shirt, a lobster trap, and a garden rake, all on the same restaurant wall.  I just made up this specific example out of whole cloth, but I&#8217;ve seen restaurant walls that were just about that mixed up.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamaipanese</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamaipanese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this post reminds me of a Thai restaurant I went to in VA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this post reminds me of a Thai restaurant I went to in VA</p>
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		<title>By: Rocking in Hakata &#187; Foreign Food Matsuri</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rocking in Hakata &#187; Foreign Food Matsuri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] at Alpha Whiskey Hotel searches for authenticity in restaurants around Japan. This theme of this post was one of the reasons I chose the foreign food theme, [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Deas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the entry! :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the entry! <img src='http://www.awh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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