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Cafe Gratitude North

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How Happy Is Your Food?   So, now that you have found a vegan restaurant with great salads and smoothie bowls for 16.00-20.00$ ...why is it wilted and brown and thrown together in a box and shoved in my face with a sneer? I fucking hate cisgendered humans!!! So here we are in a major urban city centre like Toronto eating at a vegetarian restaurant where the vibe is akin to a militarized zone of overworked ,underpaid, extremely bitter and painfully obvious societal misfits. Front of house or back of house , a certain new type of social pressure has found its way into  basic jobs at the entry level of cooking and serving. If you have no experience on a line at restaurants in Toronto then some of the following aspects of your job requirements may seem foreign. First of all if you are observant, you may see the pressure release of a stigmatized sector of society that is sometimes referred to as the LGBT movement or ‘pink mafia ’ to others. This group has become a highly visible an

Sanitary Sanitizer Sanitized Sanity= BLEACH MAFIA

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WE ARE WHAT WE EAT !!!  A plastic fish with bleach white eyes and a green algae turtle...apt representatives of a water planet gone toxic, while under the stewardship of a Chemical alchemy of primates, never aware of the subtlety of carbon based life on this blue marble we call Earth.  I digress, the bleach Sanitizer and chlorine based cleaners used in most commercial dishwashers is left on your plates, cups and cutlery for you to ingest in near heroic doses. As you may or may not suspect from the smell of such eating utensils, if you can smell it.... (HELL YES )  you can taste and are eating it!!!! (Simple rule of life by the way, and a good joke about bathroom etiquette.)  So let’s look at Toronto or ’T-Rot’ as I like to refer to this decaying Great Lakes Basin land fill. 100-150ppm of Chlorine is needed in Ontario, whereas in Quebec it is 80, British Columbia - 60 parts per million just to maintain water purity, T-rot has to up the chlorine to near pool water level, and this is