[PLUG-TALK] Open-Source Restaurants

[David Mandel]

Many or most Japanese and Japanese Americans interned during World War
II lost their real estate and other property.  Indeed, way back in the
1960s a slam used against a rather famous Los Angeles mayor was that
he or at least his family got their wealth by purchasing farms
confiscated from Japanese and Japanese Americans for pennies on the
dollar.  However, there were exceptions to this.  Residents of the
Blue Town district of Sherwood tell a story about a Japanese family
living in the area who was interned.  Their German immigrant neighbors
took their farm over and returned it to them after the war.  I'm sure
their German immigrant neighbors didn't pay much for the land as they
were expecting to be interned themselves, but weren't.  Moreover,
although I have heard this story from multiple sources, I haven't been
able to verify it as no one has given me the names of either the
Japanese family involved or the German-American families involved.
Still, I suspect events like this did occur.

David

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> wrote:
> On 2016-04-29 08:29, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> Chinese restaurants outside of China, and especially in the US, are the
>> restaurant equivalent to linux while McDonald's and the other chains
>> are the
>> equivalent of Microsoft's Windows.
>
> Interesting perspective.  I can see how the nature of immigrant
> communities (somewhat insular because of social/language barriers, with
> a strong ethic of information exchange and mutual support) would lead to
> a similar result (emergent standardization.)  Same thing happened with
> "Mexican", Thai, Vietnamese and "Teriyaki" (Korean?) restaurants.
> It happened pretty early.  The Canton Grill by my house opened in 1943
> as a standard-issue Chinese restaurant (same year my house was built)
> and "Comidas Chinas" has a long history in Mexico.
>
> Unrelated, my first thought was of how Gigantic Brewing publishes all
> their recipes.  Home-brewing is very open-source-ish, but commercial
> brewing less so.  I think Gigantic does that to flaunt their "never the
> same beer twice" ethos.
>
> More blather: my general neck of the woods (Montavilla and surrounds)
> was mostly farmed by Japanese immigrants until the Internments.  Bought
> my house from the estate of a dear old Japanese woman.  Don't know how
> she and her husband had bought the place a few years after they were
> released, but I have great admiration for them.
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