At least once a week, eating out has become very affordable here.
Do you prefer foreign to English cuisine?
None...I can die for North Indian cuisine
Are you a die-hard non-veggie?
(last post Dutchy...lunch-time...bye
)
I'll eat everything no matter where it comes from, even have eaten "witchetty grubs" with the local Australian natives.
Does your diet include meats?
(Bye pararover)
yes, it does, though I eat less meat than formerly, having been brainwashed by the health media
What's your favourite dish to cook?
Beans on toast. I find Heinz have the most delicate flavours to suit my palate although I add two tablespoons of water to get them a bit sloppy and, of course, on wholegrain bread. Baxter's Scotch Broth is my next best.
Don't you find having to eat a bit of a drag?
NEVER!!!
The power to eat if one of the greatest blessings of God to mankind.
Do you eat-to-live or live-to-eat? :wink:
Obviously, I eat to live. I find all gross appetites the flesh is prone to to be limiting to the higher possibilities of the mind. Not that I'm an extremist mind you.
One does have to find a distinction between a human being and a pig don't you think?
Depends what for. Possibly for eating, or for companions at the table, yes. But for standing around in mud talking to, about equal.
Are you as puritanical about all appetites or just eating? And isn't puritanism a bit lower-middle class?
I'm not in the least puritanical. I could make your hair curl Clary but I would need to eschew my own gross carnality in favour of your's. Ladies, especially mature ones, are not really expected to be ascetic. It is a male characteristic. Quite rare I gather.
I tend to believe in Bob Dylan's dictum that one should never eat anything that hasn't been prepared by someone who loves you. Matching that to my general physical laziness narrows my options. But it's a severe doctrine and I do occasionally weaken in the pub with a bag of Walker's Ready Salted and with canned stuff where it would cost more to mess it about than to not do.
Don't you think that restaurants lack a certain intellectual dignity?
Possibly so, but there are exceptions. I stayed in a delightful spa last week which had a very aesthetic and even ascetic Thai restaurant overlooking a Zen garden. It had dignity, and if not intellectualism, a certain spiritual integrity.
If we all ate only food prepared with love, wouldn't most of us starve to death?
Not at all.
Do you not love yourself?
Yes of course, but I don't always cook for myself, nor do most people.
How do you feel about yourself?
With my hands usually.
Is there another way?
You are a perverse gentleman. I leave that up to your imagination.
Do you despise the lower middle classes?
Yes.
Have you never read Veblen?
No, never. (Veblen - a small spot on the end of the nose)
Are you going to lecture me on Veblen?
No.
Is it perverse trying to amuse you?
No, it's extremely admirable, I wish all the men I knew would do it.
Do you like to be amused, too?
Naturally. It is healthy to laugh as Rabelais taught and he was a doctor. Not that I would fancy him doing brain surgery on me with an actual knife.
Have you read Tom Jones recently?
Not recently, no.
Intrigued by what might make my hair curl. I'm known for being unshockable. Are you going to attempt a permanent wave?
