Omnivore - Gazing out Grant Park Coffeehouse’s window

Old times there refuse to be forgotten

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Okay, it’s a stretch to connect this photo to food. But I did glimpse the guy out the window of Grant Park Coffeehouse. He’s been jogging around Grant Park, waving the Confederate flag, for years. I caught this shot of him last winter in front of the Cyclorama, the city’s longtime kitschy monument to the Battle of Atlanta, next to the zoo.

At the time, I asked one of the multi-racial staff if he took offense at the guy. He said he didn’t particularly, but that he had seen people at the bus stop across the street, many of them zoo employees, yell at him, even chase him angrily. “One of them came in the next day and said he’d actually talked to him. He said he was a nice guy, after all. So who knows?”

Oh wait. Here’s a connection to food, from one of the verses of “Dixie”:

Dar’s buckwheat cakes an Injun batter,
Makes your fat a little fatter;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

If only we could look away - way away.