Monday, June 19, 2006
Sushi Cafe - Seymour near Georgia
Cafeteria style, serves some of the larger portions of sushi in the Downtown area. Spartan surroundings. Reasonable pricing. Ambience: the buzz of students and value-conscious diners.
# posted by Mr Foodie @ 1:54 AM 
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You say that the surroundings in the Sushi Cafe are spartan. I take this to mean that the surroundings aren't lavish.
I looked up the definition of spartan in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, that defines Spartan thus: (Native) of Sparta (esp. w. allusion to supposed characteristics of Sparta, as spartan endurance, simplicity).
So the surroundings of the Sushi Cafe have the characteristics of "simplicity", that would connote that they aren't lavish. So you were spot on in describing the surroundings as spartan.
I recall there was a film made in the '60s called "Go Tell The Spartans", that I never did get to see, but perhaps I'll rent it, for I've suddenly developed an interest in all things spartan.
Right above "Spartan" in the The Concise Oford Dictionary is "Spartacist". But "Spartacist" has no connection with "Spartan", since "Spartacist" is defined in the COD as (Member) of the Spartacus group of extremists in the German revolution in 1918 (Spartacus, leader in ancient Roman servile war.......)
I recall that there was a film called "Spartacus" in the 1950s, starring Kirk Douglas, about an escaped Roman slave who began a revolution among his fellow slaves against their Roman overlords.
Now we know how the German Spartacists, involved as they were in a revolution against their overlords of the collapsing German state, came by their name.
But most revolutionaries, since they are in a life and death struggle against oppression by their overlords, would, for obvious reasons, embrace hardship, and so are spartan.
Now we can see that the words "Spartan" and "Spartacist" are not as far apart as we might suppose.
And perhaps someone in Hollywood sometime soon will make a film called "Go Tell The Spartacists"?
Who might play the lead character? Michael Douglas perhaps? Would Catherine Zeta Jones allow him time-out for this?
I looked up the definition of spartan in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, that defines Spartan thus: (Native) of Sparta (esp. w. allusion to supposed characteristics of Sparta, as spartan endurance, simplicity).
So the surroundings of the Sushi Cafe have the characteristics of "simplicity", that would connote that they aren't lavish. So you were spot on in describing the surroundings as spartan.
I recall there was a film made in the '60s called "Go Tell The Spartans", that I never did get to see, but perhaps I'll rent it, for I've suddenly developed an interest in all things spartan.
Right above "Spartan" in the The Concise Oford Dictionary is "Spartacist". But "Spartacist" has no connection with "Spartan", since "Spartacist" is defined in the COD as (Member) of the Spartacus group of extremists in the German revolution in 1918 (Spartacus, leader in ancient Roman servile war.......)
I recall that there was a film called "Spartacus" in the 1950s, starring Kirk Douglas, about an escaped Roman slave who began a revolution among his fellow slaves against their Roman overlords.
Now we know how the German Spartacists, involved as they were in a revolution against their overlords of the collapsing German state, came by their name.
But most revolutionaries, since they are in a life and death struggle against oppression by their overlords, would, for obvious reasons, embrace hardship, and so are spartan.
Now we can see that the words "Spartan" and "Spartacist" are not as far apart as we might suppose.
And perhaps someone in Hollywood sometime soon will make a film called "Go Tell The Spartacists"?
Who might play the lead character? Michael Douglas perhaps? Would Catherine Zeta Jones allow him time-out for this?
Judging by the date of your most recent posting it is several weeks now since you last ate in a restaurant.
Does this mean you now eat solely at home, and so have changed radically the way you live?
Please, say it ain't so.
Does this mean you now eat solely at home, and so have changed radically the way you live?
Please, say it ain't so.
Mr I, I have writer's block. For inspiration, I have just viewed a Tony Robbins video. It's very inspirational. I have it linked here. You should click on the video. Thanks.
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