No, not The Athletic. The Atlantic. Specifically Olga Khazan's "What To Eat in the Texas Suburbs" article. A lot of great work was done in a thread by Andrea Grimes, but I feel like this is worth dissecting.
We'll start at the beginning:
In my daily life as an East Coast journalist, pretty much all I eat is lentils, salad, and lentil salads.
Self-deprecating! East Coast Bias! I'm on board so far.
The thing is, I recently returned to my homeland, Texas, for a reporting trip. Before you ask, hipster, I'm not from Austin, or even Houston.