Chowhound's Los Angeles Area Message Board
Subject:     "Upscale" chains the marketer hath wrought 
Name:        ironmom
Posted:      September 09, 2001 at 13:23:56
 
In Reply To: "Upscale" chains  (longish, rambling)
             Posted by R Gould-Saltman on September 09, 2001 at 10:20:21

Message:
My parents in FL live near one of those planned developments that sprang up absolutely in the middle of nowhere. There's a downtown area that makes you feel like you're in a Holodeck. Everywhere you look everything is artificial and something is a little bit wrong, and it gives you the creeps.
 
She loves the whole thing. I think the masses are waiting for corporate America to simplify and homogenize all this new strange stuff for them so that it'll be safe to try some of that authentic cuisine. 
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