Reader: Boulderites should be grateful for their granola

Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen's suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen's sake, instead of calling Boulderites the "Granola Set," just call them "Humorless Assholes."...

By Patricia Calhoun

August 18, 2011

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Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough?

Ellen's suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast:

For Ellen's sake, instead of calling Boulderites the "Granola Set," just call them "Humorless Assholes."

And then Mantonat weighed in::

Boulderites don't eat granola anymore because their kids are all allergic to the peanuts in the granola. Stop dissing Boulder or you're going to get stabbed with an epi-pen or run over by a double-wide stroller.

But BSquared brought the discussion back where it belongs: to food. Even though he thinks we write too often about food in Boulder:

Ever since Laura Shunk came on board, Westword has been all about Boulder. I don't think there has been any bashing of Boulder, in fact some of us Denver'ites have been bitching about how much coverage IS being written about Boulder joints.

Go ahead, BSquared: Bitch about Lori Midson's Chef and Tell interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson...we dare you!

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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