[UA] TABOO

[David M Jacobs]

At 02:08 AM 22/04/02 +1000, Timothy Ferguson wrote:

> > HER: You mean that you'd _actually_ eat a person?
> >
> > ME: Well, maybe not a whole one.  And it depends on the circumstances.
> >
> > HER: Like what?
> >
> > ME: Is there anything else in the fridge?
> >
> > HER: No.
> >
> > ME: Not even a marinade?
>
>See, now I'd like to know if for you this calls for a white or a red?  I
>suppose it varies by dish.  A sort of stew would be red, of course, but if
>had some light marinade and skewered shashlik, perhaps with some onion,
>capsicum and pineapple chunks, does that move it into the white class for
>you, or would you settle for a rosé (a blush, for our American colleagues).

Well, given the Maori claim that it tastes something like pork, I'm 
guessing that steaks would go better with white.  I have something of a 
sweet tooth, so, even though it's technically a dessert wine, I'd probably 
recommend a botrytis riesling -- Australian, of course (nods to Ian Parmenter).

> > HER: Ewww!
>
>If she's a Catholic, the host is really, really and utterly truly human
>flesh.  It even has blood in it.

I'm only mean enough to gross her out, not cause her some sort of crisis of 
belief.  #%o)

> > HER: Don't you like oysters?
> >
> > ME: No, I can't stand them; they make my stomach turn.  You won't eat
> > people, I won't eat oysters -- and at least I wouldn't eat people _alive_.
>
>Did she torture them to death with lemon juice first?

Well, not to death as such.  I'm sure that they were still somewhat vital 
as she schlucked them down.  If there are two animals that I'd hate to be 
reincarnated as, they'd be the oyster and the gerbil.



David M Jacobs
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http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

— from Valis, by Philip K Dick


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