This chair must be stopped

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Look around you. There is probably one similar near you right now. This is the New Zealand Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc ( the most popular and ubiqitous white wine in Australia) of cafe chairs.
I keep tripping up over it everywhere. This picture was taken in Hamilton (worth avoiding). I’ve seen it in the Yarra Valley. It’s spread like a rash through my home suburb St Kilda – Mirka at Tolarno, Banff, Spuntino etc.
Are we doomed to sit on generic chairs while we enjoy the sunshine outside our favourite boutique restaurants and cafes?
Does anybody know where it comes from or what it’s background is?
Could it be an alien life form colonising this planet? Or perhaps a communist plot?
Any sightings outside of Victoria or Australia?

Ed Charles is a journalist and digital consultant who spend the better part of the part two decades in Australia. He trained with IPC in London and has written for major international and national business and lifestyle titles. Establishing this blog in 2005, he was one of the first of a handful of food bloggers in Australia. He's spoken at the Melbourne Writers Festival and Emerging Writers Festival and has broadcasted regularly on food and digital media issues. He is currently writing a history of mankind told through food.

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