People With Whom I Share A City
By Mitch Berg
Chino Latino is an hYpStR restaurant in Minneapolis.
I’ve never been there, but pretty much everyone I’ve ever known who clamed to be a regular seemed like the kind of person that’d be on Molly Priesmeyer’s speed dialer, if you know what I mean.
But I saw this, and almost wished I could be regular…:
…just so I could stop going in a loud huff.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Oh, come on. It’s kind of funny.
How about the Daily Show billboard? Funny?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Sure Jeff. Liberal racism is always a hoot.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I can’t remember what the billboard said, but I saw one in Minnetonka that just made me go “ewwww….” a few months back.
If you know what I’m talking about, please don’t remind me. I don’t need to know.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I shall go there and steal something from them. I think everyone should dine and dash at Chino.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Illegal protest marches? Commenters encouraging theft? What has this place come to, Mitch?
August 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Last time I ate at Chino Latino, I had a very bad case of DiscordianStool.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
They seem to have a fine selection of Filipino delicacies. Ask for the balut!
Since this must be a non-profit restaurant, I expect the won’t mind if you dine-n-dash.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Let’s surround the building and while chanting “Love, Peace and transfat grease”, use transcendental meditation to lift and shake some unpaid for food out of this joint. Stop bathing and washing your clothes, now. It’s the democratic way. (Or is that capital “D”?)
August 27th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Ok, wait. Your saying a business is advertising for more business by offering a capitalist pig roast? Interesting. Are the meals free? Or at least served at cost, right?
August 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I bet the place is run by faux-hemians.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Lake and Hennepin. Ground Zero of the Lakefront Liberals.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I have no idea who the owners are, but they are brilliant capitalists. Uptown, where Chino Latino is located, is pinker than a rash. Dissing capitalism to get business is good business and pretty funny to boot. Plus the food isn’t bad.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Each to his/her own; I think it’s kind of funny. For once, I’m with Jeff “Not the Gun Guy” Rosenberg, as I find the Daily Show billboard funny, too.
By and large, I find it’s the left that just doesn’t get or do the self-deprecating humor thing; conservatives, generally, seem to enjoy making fun of conservatives, no matter who is doing it, as long as it’s well-intentioned.
(Digression: am I the only one who remembers Al Franken’s White House Correspondents dinner speech during the Clinton administration? He took shots at everybody, and it was probably the last time the guy was funny.)