Tuesday, April 8, 2008

All Purpose

I was thinking about the concept of something being "all purpose". If something can really be applied to everything, than how good can it really be at anything? An all purpose cleaner, for example, can be used on tile floors, the kitchen table, in the bathroom, on the microwave, on your front door, and so on and so forth. How good of a job could it possibly be doing at all of these things? It's like when you walk into a restaurant and the menu is just a little too eclectic? I remember a place in Eudora, KS (town where Spitalfield recorded "Stop Doing Bad Things") that was a Chinese/Mexican food restaurant. Honestly, the food wasn't too bad-- but you had to have your doubts. You make Chinese and Mexican food? Okay, cool, I'll have some general tao chicken and a beef taco.

I think the only thing in my life I'd really like to be "all purpose" would be my best friends. And even then, I'd probably prefer "all porpoise". Think about that.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

so true! all purpose is almost like another way of saying "quantity over quality".

. said...

We Kansans have some strange things, in my town we also used to have "The All-American Chinese Buffet."

Anonymous said...

but you can play basketball! that's for sure.

Val said...

Simple explanation: the owners are chinese, and the cooks are mexican. I'm willing to bet on that. So on that note, I think I'd take the taco over the lemon chicken.