Me: "Breakfast this morning is slices of Gouda, Emmentaler, and Parrano, along with some Italian dry salami and crackers. How long 'til I start voting Democrat?"
RX: "There's not really a connection. Besides, there's no fresh fruit there, so you're safe..."
Me: "Thank gawd."
RX: "...although the Democrats only include the fresh fruit to prove they're just regular Joes."
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Overheard in the Hallway:
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Eating well and eating good, tasty food means you have sophisticated taste and enjoy subtle variations of flavor and texture. It doesn't follow that you're becoming a democrat or a hippie or gay. Just that you like nice things.
Frankly, it's a little insulting to imply that conservatives or classical liberals would be devoid of such subtlety. I've never had a bottle of wine that I truly loved that cost less than $40, and I've had gourmet dinners after which I was reluctant to brush my teeth and damage the heady and wonderful aftertaste of the meal.
Which is not to say that I don't lust after red beans and rice, or taco hell, on a regular basis. I just prefer the nice stuff.
Take some Prilosec with that and wash it down with some Mylanta?
Triple-cream brie and crisp, thin slices of Fuji apples on water crackers.
*le sigh*
I'm going to miss that stuff after the revolution comes and only our betters have access to it ...
Given it's winter, you can't get any localvore fresh fruit anyway.
The Navy pretty much ruined me. If the ship rolled and the creamed peas slopped into the chocolate cake, no big loss. Shovel it down and keep on a truckin'.
Still I do enjoy good cookin', it's just that I'll never make it past Gourmand 3rd Class.
My wife knows I'm a cheap date: Norm's T-Bone steak dinner! HOWEVER, I never met a lobster I didn't like!
Ulises from CA
It's kinda funny how things like that go...I love fine food, but being a weightlifter my diet involves cramming as much natural protein down my gullet that I can...thus I'm forced to eat very cheaply.
So honestly even if I was rich my diet wouldn't change all that much, except that I'd be buying Kobe beef and the finest wild-caught salmon instead of 80/20 beef and canned tuna.
You are not in danger of your diet causing you to become a Democrat until all of those foods start with the word "Organic."
Not that eating organic is bad in itself. But when you change the name of the foods to include the word, you aren't eating that way for your health, you are eating that way for your friends.
wv baladad - The lone Dad in the audience at the ballet recital, who was finally guilted into attending.
All well and good, but to become a 'regular' Joe one requires more fiber than is usually supplied by that meal, even with fruit ... hee hee !
I bought something labeled "organic" yesterday ... but only because: a) I didn't see an inorganic version; b) it violates locavore standards (it came from almost halfway around our mudball); c) it's loaded with saturated fat.
Og,
I've really loved some inexpensive Virginia, Australian, Chilean, and Argentine wines. Haven't run into too much high priced French hootch worth paying half what the sticker asked for.
The only stuff i like are sweet wines, having a demanding sweet tooth and an intense dislike for alcohol. So I tend toward the sauternes, or fine old tawny ports, or the German Beerenauslese. Even a cheap sauternes can be $40 a bottle, and it gets up into the thousands.
But lord, it tastes like distilled lovemaking. My uncle Al used to say: Life is too short for cheap booze.
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