Burger Joint

There’s a burger joint in town that people really like. There’s enough of a following that they opened a second and third (and I believe a fourth) one recently. While I was waiting for my order, I heard not one or two, but three people remarking on how good the food is.

The fries are terrible. Thin, limp, and almost certainly bought frozen from a generic wholesaler.
The onion rings are worse. Uniform, tasteless, and under-battered.
The burger? No comment.

We have an appetite problem. Limp, tasteless, and uncreative have become acceptable, even delicious. Average has become great. Good enough is excellent.

This goes for the industrial (tasteless), petro-chemical based (unhealthy), mono-crop (unsustainable) food system we uncritically support, but it also applies to life in general.

People like us expect more.
People like us hunger for better.
People like us who are unwilling to continue with the way things are need a good burger joint—literally and figuratively.