The Foodie Bernardine Dohrn

artistic rendering of Bernardine Dohrns "Wanted" poster

We’ve posted before about the jawdropping pronouncements that come from the Twitter feed of Chicago pastry chef Natalia Zarzour. Previously her main focus seemed to be rival chefs and customers, but now she appears ready to lead an uprising, with “junk food” as her stealth weapon of killing off undesirables and the enemy being those who work in part of the food industry she disapproves of:

how do democracy, (in which each person is granted equal power) and capitalism, (in which more $$$ = more power) coexist? Hmm…

voting doesn’t happen on election day: that is just a trap for fools. you vote every day for what you want, with every dollar you spend

the person making products available to you faster & cheaper is not your “friend.” rather, that is the very person ripping you off

maybe one day we will free ourselves from our self-made prison of worship to the industry of marketing & advertising

when the people lead, the leaders they will HAVE to follow. you got to fight, fight, fight, for your mind, mind, mind

everything is everything, and nothing is unrelated. whether we make this ship SAIL or SINK – it’ll be because of us all.

I have found peace with “junk” food. It’s just nature’s way of killing off the people who refuse to grow out of the old ways….

We generally support any liberation movement. But junk food as eugenics? Maybe not.

“Let me be very clear, I do not drink, I am not an alcoholic and I did not have a nervous breakdown!”

The above quote is from one Amy Bouzaglo of ABC Amy’s Baking Company in Phoenix, Arizona, who was totally in control when she wrote a 500-word tirade on Yelp, directed at a guy who gave her restaurant a bad review. Here’s Amy:

It is blatantly obvious to me why you were ALONE on a Saturday night!
Read any of the reviews that have been written about us and you will see that EVERYONE loves us!! The only people that don’t  is our “Competition”. We knew you had been sent by another restaurant before you even ordered your $14.00 Pizza.

It is summertime in ARIZONA MORON!!! Only TRAMPS and LOSERS want to sit outside in 110 temperatures!!!!

And as for the overpriced menu items if you think that $12.00 is too much for an ENTRÉE sized ORGANIC Salad or $14.00 is too much for an AMAZING Pizza then perhaps you should go to the PITA JUNGLE that is just a stone’s throw away. And if you get lucky maybe you can even dig up someone up to take with you so you can share a $5.00 Falafel.

Do US a favor and keep your ugly face and you ugly opinions to yourself and go back to the restaurant that you really work at!!

It was removed from Yelp, but posted on the Phoenix New Times website, where the commenters have rallied to defend Joel, the reviewer and demand that she apologize. They are well worth reading, if you enjoy such things. Some of them even dug up some alleged felony convictions! For me, I’d just like to remind you all that Arizona completely sucks, and maybe we should get Amy together with Natalie Zarzour over one of ABC’s  Wicked Spiced Ginger Chocolate Martinis.