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April 20, 2010
"All the Horrible People..." Where do they all come from?
who were surely lit unflatteringly from above in an austere modernist boardroom when they made the decision to create the Double Down, knew perfectly well that it would create panic and horror for no other reason than its configuration. The Double Down is, explicitly and unapologetically, a piece of food comedy.
And all the horrible people—for it seems virtually impossible to talk about food without being horrible—are reacting exactly as planned. The unapologetically paternalistic healthitarians, the grease-sweating Warcraft-playing fast-food reverse-snobs, the one-idea-in-their-whole-head theorists of food salvation, the paleos and the Pollanites, the narcissistic Nietzscheans who look at cheese as though it was about to go critical any second but will buy whatever’s new on the shelves at the GNC without so much as looking at the label…all the people, in short, who routinely insist on adulterating the pleasure of eating, and that includes, most of all, the types who’ve imbibed too much M.F.K. Fisher and who write pornographically about the “pleasure of eating” as if they were zooming a powerful camera in on an open mouth furiously masticating a mouthful of gnocchi. -- The Double Down: your move, America - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca[HT: Quotulatiousness]
Posted by Vanderleun at April 20, 2010 12:31 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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When you put it that way, I begin to crave one...for spite.
Posted by: Jewel at April 20, 2010 8:00 PM
Almost there. But even if you got grilled chicken instead of breaded, it's still fried in crappy vegetable oils. Make it at home with twice the meat for half the price with healthy, all natural saturated fat!
Posted by: damaged justice at April 24, 2010 4:41 AM