Earlier this week, we discussed a civil war brewing inside Occupy Wall Street, between those who are pro-drum circle bangings and those who are decidedly not, preferring their brethren pipe down, lest the neighbors be furthered annoyed by the racket. Now, according to the Post, the protesters are fighting another internal battle, this one over food. Specifically, the cooking staff has had it with the “vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day” for the free breakfasts, lunches, dinners and sometimes snacks. Yesterday, kitchen volunteers “refused to serve any food for two hours” (and served sub-par offerings at other times), after Rafael Moreno charged the group with “limiting the amount of food we’re putting out to curb the influx of derelicts” and starting tomorrow, they’ll be really cranking up the heat.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad. Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out — so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals. Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.
If this weekend’s initiative doesn’t prove effective, the cooks are prepared to take more drastic measures. “We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said.
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders [NYP]
Time to find a new lunch spot…
And now we see the violence inherent in the system!
That is my kind of justice.
-A Poet
OWS & Wollensky
being a OWS protester and being able to afford your own upscale food = the 1% of the 99%
"vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day”
Wait, isn't that OWS itself?
Freeloading off of freeloaders… It's so crazy it just might work.
Serious philosophical question: If a protest has no specific goals or demands, and ends up having no impact on society, can you really consider it a failure?
Mother nature is getting ready to have a "movement" of her own on these tards.
Grade Pending
- NYC DOH
Bobby Flay catered our civil war…effing amatuers.
I believe Sunday night's gonna be blow freezing. Fucking awesome!
Animal Farm 101
The fucking commies understand this because they're too busy pointing fingers at others. OWS? they're all animals.
Bloody peasant!
-Arthur
Is that like when a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it?
I've turned to a new movement…
http://occupyherbstreit.tumblr.com/page/2
There's no such thing as a free lunch…
This all needs to end.
So you're removing the constellation of kickarse meat dishes we all loved and dropping crappy PB&J sandwiches on us? Not fair when everyone has to suffer because a few try to take what isn't rightfully theirs.
You gotta serve sombody…
Slow clap for comments 1-18. Well done.
The horror that is the southwest section of the park.
-Joseph Conrad
The human race is how many meals away from anarchy? 9? I think food should be withheld from these clowns for another 3 days – that'll fix it.
OWS Person: You guys aren't welcome here.
Derelict, Criminal, and Freeloader: Why?
OWS: This is a world changing protest. We're berating bankers until the systems collapses.
Derelict: Just bankers huh? On a typical day, I yell obscenities at bankers, lawyers…store owners…other homeless dudes…shrubs.
OWS: Ummm, ok. But our efforts are sticking it to the 1%, you know, "The Man".
Criminal: I stuck it to a man for 3 years in Sing Sing
OWS: Gross…No! That's not what I meant. Look, you guys seem to be down on your luck, but you can't be here. This is a serious movement to change the system to allow us to have free access to college, easy middle-class lifestyle as a right, and to punish the greedy elite for not sharing their ill-gained wealth.
Freeloader: Lazy motherfuckers!
…and, last but not least, I would like to thank the wonderful crew from Zucotti Park, who spend hours making those perfect little sandwiches, without which I might never be tardy.
So at a price of zero, there is unlimited demand for organic chicken and the suppliers stop supplying. Who would have thought.
~Ghost of Milton Friedman
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…
- Peasant stacking filth
More like, when a hooker is around and all you have is a checkbook.
-Nails
True, dat!
So roughly…9%??
- UBS MD who can't find his BAII Plus
How's a playa supposed to get his snack on?
But if we just oppress the Indians a little longer, the brown rice supply will continue to flow.
-The 99% (of Americans, preferably with Northeastern routes and recreational-only drug habits)
blow freezing ?
u mean like crack ??
So now that they are excluding the approximately 6.5% with criminal records, does that make them the 92.5%, are they are going to have to change all their signs?
Actually I've grown partial to chicken based.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
WOW
So what qualifications does one need to become a "professional homeless"? what is the first year comp?
offer the disinfranchised slightly better food in return for running covert ops
Some animals are more equal than others
Freeload
????
Profit
Amateurs. I'm bankrolling this protest, but do I have to run logistics too? Don't skimp on food quality. If there are people you no longer want around, just force them to sit at the children's table.
–George S.
What if the homeless protest the 99.9%, what happens then to Alec Baldwin?
TANSTAAFL, NTTAWWT.
shouldn't a quant be working on that ?
I'm sure you're very capable of course…just look at the track record
2 weeks volunteering in Zucotti Park provides a more valuable lesson about reality than $100,000 of student loans and a master's degree in sociology.
Please see either UBS MD or AIG via LEH Quant for your future queries.
Regards,
Some OWS are more equal than others
that's, "divisive" Mexicant
always remeber diversity is "our strength"
This seems accurate.While a friend and I were eating lunch at the Pret a Manger across from OWS site at Zuccotti Park (a.k.a. the new Tompkins Square Park) we noticed an unpleasant odor today.It wasn't emanating from the kitchen either…..the OWSers had been coming inside from the rain to feast. Guess the chow line guys at Zuccotti on strike.
Some OWS are more animals than equals
i'm being repressed…
Hey Minetta's, meet me at Zuccotti, I will be the hungry drunk guy rapping about kicking a$$ets and taking names! Kick any hippy chick in the nuts so I know you are there
Reminds me of the first and second year investment bankers that hang around client meetings to get the leavings from the fruit and cheese plates.
-Guy who feels their pain
Profit is the NKI
Wait!!! So they are getting upset at people abusing the system and freeloading off their hard work. Pot meet kettle. That is what OWS is trying to establish in this country.
Complaints from the people volunteering to provide the food, really? I just can't see how people working 18+ hours a day at effectively no compensation for the vaguely-defined good of society could come to be resentful in any way.
- Karl M.
Mad Max Beyond Zuccotti. Two men enter one man leaves. Problem solved.
They may yet roast Peter Shiff
How many times do these dumbasses need to be told?
Love that reference
-90's kind still in love with Alicia Silverstone
Funny, that nice man in the picture cooked my dinner at Per Se last night. Is he also a chef at OWS?
He does the cooking and the French Laundry takes care of their clothes.
-Not TK but a fan of his work
Penney like in JC Penney
They've been hiding out at Pret ever since the protests began. Also, there's no Pret accross from Zuccotti.
I hear the exit ops are out of this world though.
“We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole…"
Does anyone else see the irony in this statement?
Golf fucking clap
Snow and ice! Way to go Mother Nature!
FTW ! thank you -
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