Steve Jobs, hes no Edison

[Zirak]

You could say that but you would be dead wrong in one sense. Having lived in Georgia, Tennessee, California, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania and New York and I travel about 100 days a year I think I have a pretty good perspective on the food thing.

While I was generalizing my comments on the south are accurate.

Then I'm not sure what city/towns you lived in in the South or what kind of blinders you had on but as someone who has lived in the South for almost my entire life and has experienced the North, West, and East of the US through business travel I honestly see no difference between the regions in the availability of both fast food and specialty food in eateries. In fact, I did a count this morning for my own small town and there are more family owned small eateries, all of some ethnicity, than there are chain restaurants. The closest large city has a wide range of ethnic places to eat including Mexican, Chinese, Brazilian, Thai, Japanese, Mongolian, Russian, Greek, Italian, French, English - as well as various American ethnic eateries such as Soul, BBQ (Memphis BBQ is the best BBQ in the world), and Cajun. And many of these run the gamut of inexpensive, quick, and tasty to really expensive, slow, and delicious.

In addition, high price != quality. I have been to many high priced eateries in my travels whose food bordered on being awful.

I will grant you that it is easier to find good food of certain ethnic backgrounds depending on what region of the country you are in but that does not mean that the option is absent in the other regions or that when you do find the option in another region that it is automatically bad. The Greek restaurant I went to in Chicago on a business trip many years ago was better than anything I have found locally but the local stuff is still good - just not as good.