Red Lobster waitress: "will you eat them if they live on land and crawl in backyard?"
Jan 15, 2015, 6:43 am
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Steve McQueen confronting a lobster dinner from the western "Tom Horn:"
"I’ve never eaten a bug that big before"
Lobsters and crickets and ants and scorpions, oh my!
Jim
"I’ve never eaten a bug that big before"
Lobsters and crickets and ants and scorpions, oh my!
Jim
Jan 15, 2015, 8:37 am
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I was at the dentist yesterday and one assistant told another that a sales rep was coming in with breakfast tomorrow. What kind of breakfast, the second assistant asked. Free, said the dentist. Enjoy your meal in that spirit.
Jan 15, 2015, 9:21 am
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I don't think any of them will kill you and I don't imagine you will be blown away by the experience either. Of the three, my first choice would be Longhorn.
I was at the dentist yesterday and one assistant told another that a sales rep was coming in with breakfast tomorrow. What kind of breakfast, the second assistant asked. Free, said the dentist. Enjoy your meal in that spirit.
I was at the dentist yesterday and one assistant told another that a sales rep was coming in with breakfast tomorrow. What kind of breakfast, the second assistant asked. Free, said the dentist. Enjoy your meal in that spirit.
Jan 15, 2015, 9:32 am
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The best definition of a true sophisticate is one who can get comfortable, and find pleasure, in any situation. Not one who broadcasts how many people, places, and things are beneath their standards.
Jan 15, 2015, 12:23 pm
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Jan 15, 2015, 1:00 pm
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Jan 15, 2015, 1:27 pm
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EDIT: I see you live in Chicago. Yep, now that's a real food city! I find good new places every time I'm there.
Not saying that Olive Garden is my favorite place on earth, but going to a place where you don't have to cut the pretense with a knife, and where the servers don't think they are above their job, is kind of refreshing.
Jan 15, 2015, 3:00 pm
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Have you been to a slaughter house that processes horses?
If not you really should. It's one thing to airily suggest that someone else eat it and how "delicious" it is. It's quite another to watch one be killed before your eyes before it gets to your plate.
If not you really should. It's one thing to airily suggest that someone else eat it and how "delicious" it is. It's quite another to watch one be killed before your eyes before it gets to your plate.
Jan 15, 2015, 4:08 pm
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We've never tried horse nor have any interest in it, but if watching meat being killed/butchered really made a difference to most people, the human race would have evolved as vegetarians. Both of us spent time with rural relatives growing up, so we've had experience with both killing and preparing fish, game, poultry, etc. Mr DV is by far the more carnivorous but even he doesn't eat very much by western standards. Squeamishness has nothing to do with it though.
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Jan 15, 2015, 4:54 pm
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Wow, I'd love to live in a "big city" like that. In my "big city" (Washington, D.C.) the only thing we have on every corner is places from this or that restaurateur who just made a best-of-whatever list for his "concept" that you can't get out the door of for less than $100/person, still starving.
Jan 15, 2015, 5:30 pm
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Doesn't that apply to all creatures you kill and eat ?
Jan 15, 2015, 5:37 pm
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