Hypothesis:

Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.

Thus making prices go up by forcing teams to scale up their operations and take up more space. The United States is capable of restaurants where quantity of sales, rather than quality, makes a business profitable—see the automat and the diner—but this kind of business has faded away in recent years.

let’s talk about the assimil-asians

I am sensing a powerful synergy.

over the years, meat-based dishes like jerk chicken and curry goat have become synonymous with Jamaica and a beloved part of its national menu. In more recent years, with global fast food chains serving fried chicken and burgers populating Jamaica’s cities, ital eating has been pushed further to the fringes. In spite of this, many Jamaicans still choose to shun animal products, deeming meat to have been introduced by imperial powers and with no place in a traditional Jamaican diet. For others, the negative health impacts of meat have prompted them them to turn back to Rastafari food preachings.

This is a very practical kind of veganism. Go black diaspora!

via: https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2025_07_flatpack/