Fuck Michael Pollan #5: Breaking the Food Rules at "Winter Blows" Swap Meet & Bike Show

Feb 9, 2011 at 9:00 am

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One woman, whose husband's orange chopped trike featured a wooden flatbed for hauling supplies, slumped in a lawn chair nibbling halfheartedly at a piece of snow-white dough plucked from the interior of one of those pretzels, more out of boredom than hunger, and so violated two Food Rules at once: Rule #47, "Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored"; and Rule #37: "The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead."

Jesus rode a Harley. | Gut Check photo
Jesus rode a Harley. | Gut Check photo

​Bikers have an "Eater's Manual" of 69 statutes all their own, which, rather than being bound in a book, are exhibited openly in the form of patches -- as befits a group that advocates above all the legalization of liberty. The gentleman pictured above, who manned a booth dedicated to sewing colors onto black leather, is sporting 2 of said 69.

Can you discern which? (Click here for a closer peer....)

Michael Pollan's 2007 best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma documented the industrialization of the world's food supply and whipped the foodie vanguard into a self-righteous froth. His encore, the "Manifesto" In Defense of Food, revealed the author as a proselytizing zealot/minimalist poet ("Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."). Then, in 2009, came Food Rules, an "Eater's Manual" of 64 pedantic edicts whose presumption will cause angry boils and cuss words to flare up in those who resent cultural fascism in any form.

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See also: - Breaking the Food Rules at Jay International - Breaking the Food Rules at Hit-N-Run - Breaking the Food Rules at Crest Bowl - Breaking the Food Rules at Old St. Louis Chop Suey