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It's Friday May the 11 around 6:17AM and

To Foodie or Not to Foodie?

Andrew Morrison sums up Kits in his latest Westender piece with delightful zest: "On any given day of the week, a stroll down West 4th sees the two generations morphed into one master demographic of Capers-loving, Goretex-wearing, Starbucks-loathing, mountain bike-riding, dog-walking, and restaurant-going shopaholics with more money than sin and equal appetites for self-indulgence and fitness."

But even after that you totally want to read on about The Noodle Box, Gastropod, Fuel, Bistro Bistro, and Hapa izakaya.

All this "foodie" talk, but I have to say I'm with Keith Talent at Urban Diner on the word: "I can’t stand the word foodie. It’s overly simplistic and calculatedly lowbrow so as to offset the pretension of calling someone a “gourmet”. It’s sort of a Rachel Ray vs. Paul Bocuse question."

At anyrate, it's really no wonder I'm scared to cross the Burrard St. bridge most time to say nothing of coming face to face with those Kits eco-robots scare me. In a related piece of news I'm meeting some of my oldest and trusted friends for lunch today at Guu. Apparently I'm so awash with cash I'm paying, but I hope my 'green-y' friends bought this excuse. Feel free to try it yourselves:

"All of my cash is tied up in unethical weapons manufacturing stocks, and oil companies and otherwise in offshore accounts.
Gotta run, my Hummer has been running all day long down in the parking garage and I need to refuel it. See I'm doing my part to support global warming. Aren't you proud?"

I'm sure one of them will still try to sell me some sort of ethical investments anyway.