Not to say there isn't a huge problem with attitudes towards race in Boulder, but I've encountered people here who broke off long term relationships because a partner refused to go militant vegan and instead remained merely vegetarian, so I wouldn't place too much stock in the mind blowing food neuroses that tend to be common around these parts.

And not to derail the conversation, but as a fellow Boulderite who desperately misses having a a Popeyes within 20 minutes, have you found any good fried chicken places? I have yet to find anything besides Yellowbelly and the exceptionally terrible KFC on Arapahoe.