Installation:
- 2 table & chair sets, facing away from each other and on either
side of a screen that divides the gallery in half.
- each table has a USB or FireWire camera pointing at the seated dinner
guest, headphones, and a PowerBook running iChatAV, allowing video chat
between the guests.
- 2 additional video cameras, 1 pointing at each guest, filming their
profile.
- each PowerBook is running WebCam software, capturing ../images from the
side cameras and uploading them to the local Dinner for 2 web site.
- one PowerBook is running Apache web server and hosting the Dinner for
2 web site. It is also running a browser on its second monitor and displaying
the web site.
- a projector is connected to the server PowerBook and projecting the
web page on the back wall of the gallery.
- the web page is configured to display the video feeds in reverse position
so the guests appear to be facing each other.
Dinner:
- Cocktail
Milwaukee's Best beer
- Sides
Kraft Miracle Whip
French's Yellow Mustard
Heinz Ketchup
- Beverage
Kraft Tang
- Main
American Sandwich:
Wonder Bread Classic
Iceberg Lettuce
Kraft American Cheese Singles
Oscar Mayer Bologna
- Coffee & Dessert
Nabisco Oreos
Maxwell House Rich Instant Coffee
Dinner facts:
- Annual per capita beer consumption in the US: 23.95 gallons. Milwaukee's
Best beer is arguably the worst beer Milwaukee produces.
- Miracle Whip was an instant success, helping to make foods better tasting,
more appealing and less expensive
- Yellow mustard is mainly used in the meat packing industry as an aid
to flavor, emulsification, water binding, slicing and texture in hot dogs,
bologna and other processed meats. Ground yellow mustard can absorb excess
fat and fluid (approximately 4.5 times its own weight) and is also used
with seasoned hamburger, meatloaf, liver sausage, chili, various canned
meat products, and some table mustards.
- Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying
ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's budget cuts for federally financed
school lunch programs (it would make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements
on vegetable content of lunches). The suggestion was widely ridiculed
and the proposal was killed.
- At one time, Canadian authorities attempted to deter addicts from misusing
doses of methadone by packaging it in combination with Tang; this was
carried out under the reasoning that nobody would be foolish enough to
intravenously inject the combination. This was not the case.
- In 2002 the Federal Trade Commission stopped Wonder Bread from making
the false claim that it "helps childrens minds work better."
In 2004, the company that makes Wonder Bread, the best-selling bread in
America in the 20th century, filed bankruptcy.
- Crisphead lettuce got the name "iceberg" from the way it was
transported in the US in the early days in trainwagons covered in crushed
ice, making them look like icebergs.
- American "cheese" contains young cheddar as well as scraps,
trimmings, and runoff from other cheesemaking processes. Due to its processing
and additives, it cannot be legally labeled "cheese" in the
US, and so is sold as "cheese food", "cheese spread"
or "cheese product". The introduction of American Cheese has,
over the last century, caused the US per capita consumption of cheese
to increase from 3 pounds a year to 30 pounds a year.
- Bologna is made from almost any part of the carcass, including organ
meats, trimmings and end pieces from other meat processing. More than
6 million bologna sandwiches are consumed every day - 67 per second.
- Depending on the area of manufacture, Oreo cookies may or may not be
vegan. Over 450 billion Oreo cookies have been sold, making it the best-selling
cookie of the 20th century.
-Due to the fact that instant coffee was the norm in American homes until
the 1980s, some areas of the world see it as a particularly sophisticated
beverage. Ironically, instant coffee is the only form of coffee available
in certain coffee exporting countries.