An Apology
posted by Sarah Lawsky
Oatmeal raisin cookie, you are much loved, by many, many vocal fans. Please, oatmeal raisin cookie, accept my apology for suggesting that one could ever write a paper that indicated otherwise. O, oatmeal raisin cookie, is any cookie loved as much as you?
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August 7, 2008 at 10:52 am
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Justinian Lane - August 7, 2008 at 11:09 am
“O, oatmeal raisin cookie, is any cookie loved as much as you?”
No.
Jeff Lipshaw - August 7, 2008 at 11:22 am
Oatmeal raisin is a mere pretender compared to the far more cosmopolitan, elegant, chic, and tasty oatmeal dried cherry.
shg - August 7, 2008 at 11:35 am
Lipshaw must be a metrosexual. Oatmeal raisin rules the trenches.
Mack O'Roon - August 7, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Not all cookie love is equal; it’s just like the evil oatmeal raisin cookie to inspire an outpouring of twisted passions. To quote:
Oatmeal raisin, you’re the worst
You’re cookie city’s Bensonhurst
A blazing passion let misshape
And insolate the tasty grape.
I applaud your courage in speaking out.
Mack O'Roon - August 7, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Not all cookie love is equal; it’s just like the evil oatmeal raisin cookie to inspire an outpouring of twisted passions. To quote:
Oatmeal raisin, you’re the worst
You’re cookie city’s Bensonhurst
A blazing passion let misshape
And insolate the tasty grape.
I applaud your courage in speaking out.
Sarah Lawsky - August 7, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Mack O’Roon: Who wrote that? It is sheer genius. Please refer me to other work by the same author.
Daniel S. Goldberg - August 7, 2008 at 1:51 pm
To paraphrase Seinfeld when discussing the merits of carrot cake, ‘Oatmeal — why is that a cookie?’
I like oatmeal as oatmeal, as porridge. Why that belongs in a cookie — with raisins, no less, which are the root of all evil — is mystifying to me. Chocolate, brown suger, butter — these are a few of my favorite things.
Begone, oatmeal raisin cookies.
Mike O'Shea - August 7, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Those are some nice looking oatmeal raisin cookies in the pic. There’s a distinctive pleasure to the well-made oatmeal raisin: the satisfaction of an unglamorous task carried out with due thought and care.
All that said, yeah, I reach for the chocolate chip first.
Here’s another example of a good with the characteristic Sarah was thinking about in her original post: a desirable choice that is typically presented in a context where it is the least desirable of several options.
Fun size Almond Joy candy bars. My old law firm had an annual Halloween trick-or-treat event: people’s kids would dress up and go office-to-office on each floor. Very cute, and since it was a big firm, the kids ended up with LOTS of quality candy. (Seriously, I was kind of envious on behalf of my younger self.)
My offering was fun size candy bars. I learned that the Kit Kats, Reeses cups, Heaths, etc., would all disappear while most of the Almond Joys were still untouched. But by the end of the afternoon the bowl was empty.
Mike O'Shea - August 7, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Those are some nice looking oatmeal raisin cookies in the pic. There’s a distinctive pleasure to the well-made oatmeal raisin: the satisfaction of an unglamorous task carried out with due thought and care.
All that said, yeah, I reach for the chocolate chip first.
Here’s another example of a good with the characteristic Sarah was thinking about in her original post: a desirable choice that is typically presented in a context where it is the least desirable of several options.
Fun size Almond Joy candy bars. My old law firm had an annual Halloween trick-or-treat event: people’s kids would dress up and go office-to-office on each floor. Very cute, and since it was a big firm, the kids ended up with LOTS of quality candy. (Seriously, I was kind of envious on behalf of my younger self.)
My offering was fun size candy bars. I learned that the Kit Kats, Reeses cups, Heaths, etc., would all disappear while most of the Almond Joys were still untouched. But by the end of the afternoon the bowl was empty.
Jeff Lipshaw - August 7, 2008 at 6:15 pm
This was on my e-mail today from the Association for Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
CFP: Food, Culture, and the Law
The field of food studies has grown enormously over the last
decade, as evidenced in part by the steadily increasing number
of academics and professionals in the humanities, social and
nutrition sciences, culinary arts, and hospitality studies who
have become engaged in cross-disciplinary conversations about
food. Operating in tandem with the explosion of popular
fascination with food, these conversations have been joined of
late by academics, attorneys, and activists who are
particularly concerned with the question of how our
relationship to food is, has been, and should be, mediated
through law. In response to this emerging area of inquiry, we
are soliciting both conference papers and publishable essays
that integrate multidisciplinary scholarship in food studies
with legal scholarship related to food in existing fields such
as agricultural, constitutional, criminal, administrative,
tort, intellectual property, and international trade law.
Among the questions we hope to answer are: How might one
account for the law’s varying treatment of food over time
and/or cross-culturally? What role does law play in shaping
cultural ideas about food production, trade, and consumption?
And, inversely, what role does food play in shaping ideas
about the law?
Initially we seek papers written from a variety of
perspectives appropriate for presentation at one or both of
the following conferences: the Association for the Study of
Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law
School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the
Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA
on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as
a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we
are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from
potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH
or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for
publication with an established university press and
reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of
scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and
humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
Topics can include, but are not limited to:
Intellectual property rights in food and recipes
Prison food, e.g., hunger strikes & force feeding, Nutraloaf
Last meals
Food torts, e.g. exploding sodas, fingers in chili, coffee in
the lap
Regulation of food, alcohol, and/or obesity
Dietary laws and regulations in different cultures
History of dietary laws and regulations
Geographical indications of origin
Farm subsidies and international trade law
Linguistic classification of food, e.g., kosher, 1st Growths,
Organic
Sumptuary laws
Famine and famine aid
Labeling, packaging, and branding
Rationing
Food stamps
Ethanol production and the food supply
Illegal food production, commerce, and consumption
Agricultural nuisance and zoning law
Food and environmental law
Please submit a paragraph author’s bio and an abstract of no
more than 500 words to Doris Witt (doris-witt@uiowa.edu),
Chris Buccafusco (cjb@law.uiuc.edu), AND Amy Dillard
(adillard@ubalt.edu). Abstracts for ASLCH are due by Oct. 1,
2008; abstracts for ASFS or for the essay collection alone are
due by Jan. 15, 2009. Please indicate clearly whether the
abstract is for ASLCH, ASFS, the essay collection, or some
combination thereof. Finished essays should be approximately
10,000 words in length and will be due on or before January 1,
2010.
In advance of submitting an abstract, please feel free to
contact Doris Witt, Christopher Buccafusco, or Amy Dillard
with any questions about the conference panels or the essay
collection.
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