Post Food.inc

Thursday morning, after finishing Food Inc, I was over come with a desire to eat better. As I was about to leave, my fellow classmate Ivy stopped me and changed my morning. First she asked if I wanted to go get some breakfast off campus (always a game changer for my morning), and then she told me about this amazing place, The Breakfast place. She described how this place specialized in locally sourced, grass-fed meat, as well as locally grown veggies and coffee(fyi, some of the best coffee I have ever had, no bitter after taste) I had been going to Wheaton for 4 years, considering myself a well informed eater in the area and I had never heard about this place. This place is a hidden gem tucked away in the corner of a small building in attleboro. Unassuming from the outside, and one of the most down to earth places on the inside. The walls are strewn with chalkboards showing amazing seasonal specials and their locally sourced Razzo's coffee. 

Outside of their ingredients, it was not much different from any other diner I had ever been in. It had the same feel, same affordable prices, and the same adorable down to earth conversation you can expect in any diner. It was refreshing to see a business catering to all manner of people, from college students like myself to individuals, for example when I was there, wearing work boots and pants, covered in many different stains I can only assume came from a hard job of physical labor. Even the people who worked there expressed to me an interest in being a hair dresser outside of working at the diner. The Breakfast place successfully brought together individuals of different classes and backgrounds over a meal they could be proud of. Especially in a time when foods such as grass-fed beef and locally sourced veggies are considered an upper middle and upper class diet by most, it was nice to see the food not commodified, but made accessible to everyone. Similar to Stoneyfield's message, the food was accessible, and made for everyone. It wasn't some fancy over blown, place with fancy items on the menu, it was the Breakfast Place, with steak and eggs, eggs benny, corned beef hash, and waffles and french toast that would blow your mind. No what I had, was special, grilled tomato, with an herb hollandaise sauce, and locally sourced uncured bacon. Especially after watching a movie like Food Inc. This place was a refreshing change from the foods I, as a college student usually have access to in neighboring areas.