High dining...

[Gob]

When you go to a gourmet restaurant, you might find yourself asking the sommelier to recommend a fine wine to complement your meal. But now, as more states begin to legalize recreational marijuana use, diners will soon be asking another question: What fine weed will enhance my dining experience?

Patrons of Colorado’s Hapa Sushi have already begun asking this important question thanks to the restaurant’s new pot-and-dinner pairing menu. Back in 2009, the restaurant launched a print campaign that encouraged smokers to come eat sushi to satisfy their munchies. And now the chain, with locations in Boulder and Denver, is back on the pro-weed scene, urging locals to toke up and eat up — at the same time.

Here are some of the suggested dinner-and-dope combinations:

•Pakalolo Shrimp with Pakistani Kush
•Honey Miso Salmon with Sour OG
•Katsu Curry with Blue Dream

Oh and don’t worry — the dining room is “ergonomically designed to reduce paranoia” so you can just sit back, take a toke, and then probably start giggling about how weird it is that something that used to swim in the ocean is now inside you.



Read more: Colorado Sushi Restaurant Offers Weed and Food Pairing Menu | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/08/hig ... z2ps1YWTyp

[oldr_n_wsr]

I thouhgt smoking in resturants was banned?
Or is that only in some states?

[rubato]

"Hapa" is a Hawaiian term meaning "Half-breed" or Half-Hawaiian (or more generally part-Hawaiian). It has recently been embraced by some like the musical group "Hapa" as a term of approval. So that the meaning has morphed from "you are (I am) merely half Hawaiian to you are (I am) truly half Hawaiian. The term "half" shifting from that of exclusion (half but not whole) to inclusion (half of two different things together).

A very cool change in thought.

yrs,
rubato