Frankeneinstein
Gold Member
It must be sincere chi-co, if it weren't it would have a metric ton of text trying to explain it blaming everything on the planet except you.Ah, good poster Frank-2, I mean it.
Sincerely.
Ahhhh the classicsYou are simply trying too hard here.
What, no Kumbaya? No quilt knitting? no sit-in?Do this: Calm. Breathe slowly. Look inward for your inner zen center.
And consider the long-term reputation of your poor avatar.
You are making him/her look bad.
Now it's the corned beefs fault!Now, as far as your hyperventilation over the young me eating a really good corned-beef hash at a famous German restaurant in Chicago's Loop 6 decades ago, well, with that too, please settle down. Breathe. Calm.
It was only corned beef.
You are getting overwrought.
Don't do that. It makes your avatar look bad.
and yet you recall it fondly, it is the urban equivalent of the old souths water fountain.BTW, Frank-2, me going to that restaurant 60+ years ago when the establishment wouldn't serve women (for lunch in the upstairs streetside bar) has really really burdened my conscience over all those years.
And I'll bet you view that self-forgiveness as an act of benevolent kindness on your part...what a guyBut, as a testament to my resiliency and forward thinking -----I long ago reconciled myself that eating corned beef for lunch with a bunch of guys in a famous German restaurant* in Chicago's Loop was probably the most despicable thing on my resume. And I forgave myself. Mea culpa, mea culpa.
I hope you see what has happened here...it takes so much more text to try and cover ones tracks than to just own up to the offense...Gloria spotted it and did something about it, where as you were perfectly comfortable joining in...*by the way, the Berghoff is still a highly successful restaurant And if you are a fan of creamed-spinach, well, you will never.....ever.....find a better one than at the Berghoff. Trust me. Also, the Berghoff for a long long long time, certainly while I worked in the Loop, ONLY had male waiters. I don't know when that changed. But change it did. (the famous Chicago Greek restaurant on Halstead, The Parthenon, was the same way. Only men served the diners. That changed.)
** BTW #2. You might find this of interest: (from Wicki)
"The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark.[1] In 1999, The Berghoff won a James Beard Foundation Award in the "America's Classics" category, which honors legendary family-owned restaurants across the country.[2]
The restaurant opened in 1898 as a saloon, but during Prohibition, when serving alcohol was illegal, it became known for its characteristic German food, such as sauerbraten, wiener schnitzel, creamed spinach, and apple strudel. The Berghoff was also known for its waiters, who were professionals, with formal cloth aprons, and remembered orders with no need to write them down. The restaurant followed a European system under which waiters purchased food from the kitchen via a token system and resold it to the customer. For much of its history, the Berghoff maintained a separate men's only bar. The segregation ended in 1969, when seven members of the National Organization for Women, followed a little later by the organization's head, Gloria Steinem, stood at the bar and demanded service.[3] [4]
in any case this isn't about any of that camouflage, it's about you and your blindness...
...as an aside, I met Gloria Steinem not too long ago at a commencement ceremony for my son...she's no longer spry but still able to occasionally attend events like this.