... cars out front have bumper stickers for the local high school teams, the concept of a “franchise” meal is obscene. Which are you? Any ideas of “Where would Jesus eat?” In Tom Perrotta’s novel Little Children (New York: St Martin’s Griffin, 2004), Kathy, a documentary film-maker, gets an idea for a new project from the dinnertime small talk of an advertising executive. He is desperately trying to talk a bunch of white, southern businessmen into NOT naming a new Chinese food franchise “Charlie ...
