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Is dissing a free sample a food court faux pas?

June 24th, 2009, 9:09 am by Niyaz Pirani

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I’ve been sick for the better part of five days and I spent my weekend holed up in my apartment switching between “Family Guy” and “Gilmore Girls” episodes.  I can justify the “Gilmore” marathon because it’s on Time Mag’s list of “The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME” (or at least I’ve convinced myself it’s okay because of that).

I finally started to feel better Tuesday so Fiancee Nadia suggested that we go to Laguna Hills Mall (not the mall pictured above) and pick up a couple of books for our newly established “Beary Awesome Book Club” where monthly we’ll each pick a book, then switch, then discuss. She bought “The Chocolate Lover’s Club - A Novel” by Carole Matthews and I picked up “Pygmy” by Chuck Palahniuk.

We then took a trip to the food court, where we got an indroduction to Filipino mall food at the new Pinoy Pam’s Best. It was there that I saw an incident that made me wonder: “Is it a food court faux pas to diss a free sample?” Read the rest of this entry »