Alright, I drive by this restaurant every morning on my way to work.

This place:



I've been super curious about it figuring it was just some sort of hippie place. But then I look it up, and it looks like it's part of some sort of weird cult

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"This wholesome menu, which draws a clientele of holistic healers, diabetics, concerned parents and curious pedestrians, adds up to what Food for Life Supreme's teachings call "transitional foods": comfortable and familiar dishes prepared in healthier and health-boosting ways. Recipes are based on practices found in the cookbook Food for Life Supreme: Transitional Recipes for Food Combining and Blood Typing Cookbook, which focuses on this aspect even more pointedly than the cafes. Collins explains this as the theory that addresses how some foods act as a slow poison with certain blood types, bringing on illness gradually. "I'm an O-type," she says, "so I shouldn't eat lentils.""

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Quote :

"An endeavor launched by the University of the Art and Logistics of Civilization based in Kansas City, Kan., Food For Life Supreme now has restaurants in eight cities"

So then I try to find information on the University of the Art and Logistics of Civilization and it's only online presence is on their restaurant website.

http://www.foodforlifesupreme.com/university/index.html

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"Although the curriculum does contain some college level courses, it is for the express purpose of advanced learning, as the average age range of our student body is between 3 and 18 years of age."

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

So now I'm even more curious about this place Has anyone eaten there before?

8/4/2011 9:09:35 PM

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"University of the Art and Logistics of Civilization "

So it's a college in the Kansas City circle of Merchants? Yeah, sure it is.

8/4/2011 9:16:42 PM

Exactly! I want to learn more about wtf this place really is lol.

8/4/2011 9:17:44 PM

I've heard of the blood type diet before but I didn't think people actually followed it.

PS - where is this place located? I'll go with you

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM. Reason : Edit]

8/4/2011 9:18:13 PM

It's on Chapel Hill Road right as you get off of 147.

8/4/2011 9:19:37 PM

Ahhh it's in Durham like nowhere near where I live or work. Damn. The pictures are interesting. They have photos of food

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM. Reason : Edit]

8/4/2011 9:20:32 PM

It appears that the "University," which it is not, is more like a boarding school for intercity youth, to repair what they deem a troubled living conditions. Have to wonder what they actually teach.

8/4/2011 9:22:17 PM

It's basically the exit you take to get the West Campus. The only other shit around there is a ghetto looking daycare center and a food co-op

^ That's what I want to know too! I mean, if they're teaching them what they need to know to succeed in life, that's cool, but I bet that's not all they're teaching them.

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 9:23 PM. Reason : a]

8/4/2011 9:22:22 PM

Sounds like something from the Moonies.

8/4/2011 9:31:11 PM

damn, i didn't think it was possible to be weirder than the vegans.

8/4/2011 9:46:07 PM

I've looked at a book called eating for your blood type.

and

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"So then I try to find information on the University of the Art and Logistics of Civilization and it's only online presence is on their restaurant website."

made me LOL!

8/4/2011 9:51:05 PM

I bet the food tastes better than the Pizza Hut it replaced though!

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/durhams-food-for-life-supreme-offers-soul-food-with-a-healthy-spin/Content?oid=1206578

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 10:14 PM. Reason : Fried whiting fillet with mustard greens and macaroni and cheese!!!]

8/4/2011 10:11:16 PM

^ lol probably.

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"Blood group O is believed by D'Adamo to be the hunter, the earliest human blood group. The diet recommends that this blood group eat a higher protein diet. D'Adamo bases this on the belief that O blood type was the first blood type, originating 30,000 years ago. Blood group A is called the agrarian or cultivator by D'Adamo, who believes it to be a more recently evolved blood type, dating back from the dawn of agriculture, 20,000 years ago. The diet recommends that individuals of blood group A eat a diet emphasizing vegetables and free of red meat, a more vegetarian food intake. Blood group B is, according to D'Adamo, the nomad, associated with a strong immune system and a flexible digestive system. The blood type diet claims that people of blood type B are the only ones who can thrive on dairy products and estimates blood type B arrived 10,000 years ago. Blood group AB, according to D'Adamo, the enigma, the most recently evolved type, arriving less than 1,000 years ago. In terms of dietary needs, his blood type diet treats this group as an intermediate between blood types A and B."

lol wtf. Apparently I'm a hunter blood type

8/4/2011 10:14:41 PM

I just realized most of their menu is fish. Odd.

8/7/2011 11:32:17 AM

i dont know my blood type

8/7/2011 11:35:40 AM

red

8/7/2011 11:36:04 AM

^^ Donate blood at Rex and they'll tell you.

8/7/2011 11:41:27 AM

do they have burritos?

[Edited on August 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM. Reason : food for life supreme burrito supreme]

8/7/2011 11:42:00 AM

I've been in this place, never eaten there though.
The people are pretty nice
clean kitchen
(at least it was a few years ago)

8/7/2011 11:51:35 AM

i am blood type A. i used to be vegetarian and became anemic. guess what is in red meat. IRON. i mean it's in spinach to and other vegetables but i was a stupid 13 year old and didn't like those kinds of things.

anyway my point is FUCK THAT I LOVE CHEESEBURGERS

8/7/2011 11:58:05 AM

i've donated blood 3 or 4 times
they dont ever use it or tell me what my blood type is
ive never outright asked though.


it does creep me out that they refuse to use it.

8/7/2011 12:00:07 PM

They have a different diet that is probably more healthier than 90% of America's diet, THEY MUST BE A CULT! LETS FEED THEM KFC!

If this is a cult, then what does that make Christianity or most other "religions?"

8/7/2011 12:00:53 PM

you're secretly a robot and they don't know how to tell you

[Edited on August 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM. Reason : here comes merbig to drizzle some derp gravy over this thread]

8/7/2011 12:01:02 PM

[Edited on August 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM. Reason : ^lol]

8/7/2011 12:01:35 PM

girl I'd reprogram dat ass

8/7/2011 12:02:33 PM

^makes me wish I were a robot too

8/7/2011 12:05:10 PM

8/7/2011 12:06:20 PM

^^^^ are you anemic? or have some other issue nutrient related? there are plenty of reasons some people can't donate blood

it's not like you have aids. i feel like they'd yell at someone with aids who kept trying to donate blood

[Edited on August 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM. Reason : is nutrient even the right word? idk ]

8/7/2011 12:06:55 PM

lol im positive i don't have aids


and i sure as hell i don't have anemia
if anything i have too much iron

[Edited on August 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM. Reason : im not too worried about it, ive just always found it odd ]

8/7/2011 12:12:44 PM

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"i've donated blood 3 or 4 times they dont ever use it or tell me what my blood type is ive never outright asked though. it does creep me out that they refuse to use it."

Did you donate at Rex? Unless something changed recently there, they mail you a donor card after the first time you donate that has your blood type printed on it and they scan it when you come in so you don't have to refill out all the paperwork each time.

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"here comes merbig to drizzle some derp gravy over this thread"

I spit out my drink laughing at that

8/9/2011 4:10:51 PM