NOTE: This is not an assignment, but a reference handout for your Paper #1 assignment.
Quoting
Essays in Your Paper, MLA Style
From
My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas, page 55
“Yet
it is the experience of eating food from restaurants that serve gas that really
elucidates our American, or our deeply Southern American, conundrum. Our
practices are literally poisonous. Mississippi
charges me a tax for driving a hybrid car. It literally charges me for not
wanting to fuck up our environment more. And. But. The friendships we make
while experimenting and/or surviving the poisonous parts of Mississippi are what make our lives and
definitely our childhoods—if we are willing to mine them—heavier, and actually
most wonderfully Southern.”
INTRODUCE
& CITE
In
Kiese Laymon’s essay, “My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas,” he writes about his
childhood memories surrounding a gas station in his hometown of Forrest, Mississippi,
which also served some of his favorite food. However, later in life he reflects
that, “Yet it is the experience of eating food from restaurants that serve gas
that really elucidates our American, or our deeply Southern American,
conundrum. Our practices are literally poisonous” (55). OR (Laymon 55).
ALWAYS
RESPOND AFTERWARDS
In
Kiese Laymon’s essay, “My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas,” he writes about his childhood
memories surrounding a gas station in his hometown of Forrest, Mississippi,
which also served some of his favorite food. However, later in life he reflects
that, “Yet it is the experience of eating food from restaurants that serve gas
that really elucidates our American, or our deeply Southern American,
conundrum. Our practices are literally poisonous” (55). In other words, he
realizes that his favorite childhood memories were bound up things he has
learned to look down on: fossil fuels, pollution, and fast-food culture. Can he
still love and appreciate a childhood based in things he can no longer respect?
WORKS
CITED PAGE
Laymon,
Kiese. “My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas.” The Best American Food and
Travel Writing 2024. ed. Lakshmi. New
York: Mariner Books, 2024.
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