From the Narrow Desert: Food

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Return of the greene-ey'd Monster

Two days ago I posted "The greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke the meate it feeds on," in which I noted the synchronicity of seeing essentially the same green-ey'd image in an /x/ schizopost about how "burgers are made with people" and on an Uber Eats scooter. I was in moving traffic when I spotted the scooter, though, and wasn't able to snap a photo.

Today, quite some distance from my original sighting, I saw the very same Uber Eats scooter parked on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, in front of a rice paddy -- not at all the sort of place where you would usually see an Uber Eats scooter parked. It took a second for the green eyes to register, so I had to make a U-turn and go back to get a photo.

Notice also that the license plate suggests the word envy. My previous post had a title pinched from Shakespeare: Iago's speech in which he warns Othello to beware of jealousy.

The Chinese sticker under the green eyes says 藏樂組, which means "Tibetan music group." Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but one notes that cannibalism -- "flesh pills" made from Brahmins -- used to be a thing in Tibetan Buddhism.

Sunday, September 10, 2023

The greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke the meate it feeds on

A somewhat disconcerting sync:

When I was on /x/ the other day to download a picture for my "Phoenix syncs" post, one of the posts I ran across was this:

Today, while I was out on the road, I saw an Uber Eats delivery scooter, with the trademark green box on the back with the company's name on it. On this one, though, the word Uber had been covered up with a long rectangular black sticker with two big green cat eyes on it -- virtually identical in shape, color, and design to the first image in the "BURGERS" post shown above. Under the green eyes, the word Eats.

I wonder what the guy was delivering. Not burgers, I hope!

(By the way, I feel I should point out that goyim originally meant "nations," then came to be used only for non-Israelite nations, and finally for individual members of such nations. Contrary to popular belief, the word has never had anything to do with cattle.)

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Vegetarians don't think vegetarian food tastes good.

There are several pretty good vegetarian restaurants in my city, and I get lunch there from time to time -- and virtually every time, one of the other patrons will say something like, "Wow, that's so great that you're a vegetarian!" ("老師很棒，吃素很棒！"; a direct translation would sound more childish than it sounds in Chinese.)

Back in America, I used to eat at kosher delis fairly often. Not once did anyone ever say, "That's so great that you keep kosher!" or even "I never knew you were Jewish." That's because everyone understands that kosher food is awesome and that there's nothing strange about a goy enjoying it. Vegetarian fare, on the other hand, is apparently understood to be so unappetizing that no one would ever eat it unless his moral or religious principles required him to do so.

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Or maybe everyone did assume I was a kosher Jew (big nose, East European name, it wouldn't be surprising) but just didn't say anything -- either because discussing religion with strangers is taboo in America in a way that it isn't in Taiwan, or because vegetarianism is much more of a missionary faith than kashrut is.