Stolen Thoughts on Food

I love food. I love eating it, and I have been known to even do a passable job of preparing it. I love talking about food as much as I like talking about anything, but I can't claim to be especially knowledgeable on the topic. But...that never really stopped me from talking about anything else. When I lack inspiration, I steal ideas. Here are a few clever things other people have said about food.

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
Jo Brand

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Morley Safer

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
AW Brown

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Garrison Keillor

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Author Unknown

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
Old New York Proverb

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.
Martha Harrison

A meal without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."
Jean Antheleme Brillat Savarin

Rice is good to eat when you're really hungry and want to eat a thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

You Can't Really Water It Down, now Can You?

It is what it is. You can try to stuff it into politics, or science, or environment, or poetry, or mythology, or economics, or whatever. In the end, it is what it is. Moreover He is what He is. He did not tell Moses, "Tell them I AM sent you!" for nothing.


"So, let me add that Christianity is, and always has been, and always will be, not just essentially a religion of hope, but in itself, the most stupendous hope the world has ever known. Only incarnate god would have dared to hold out to us all, mere men and women of every sort and condition, sweet Mongols and pundits and professors and beauty queens, the sick and the well, the stupid and the clever, those who stumble equally with those who lend an arm, whoever and whatever we may be, a hope of being involved in a destiny set in eternity and encompassing the universe. Imagine telling caterpillars that they are destined to become butterflies . . . Carrying the image further, I imagine a TV panel of caterpillars discussing the implications of the prophecy that they were destined to become butterflies, with one of them, the genus Popilio Soperino, insisting that what the prophecy really signifies is that all caterpillars should join the Labour Party"
(Malcolm Muggeridge, Christ and the Media, pp. 44-45).

Snagged this from Blog and Mablog. I don't have much time lately to actually write anything of my own, so I am reduced to stealing quotes from other people who steal quotes.

When Love Comes to Town

This song has always rocked me. I've heard that U2 caught a fair amount of flack over Rattle & Hum, but I rank it as one of their better efforts, and When Love Comes to Town in particular. The segment from the R&H Movie where they play with BB King is amazing, as King's band brings a big lump of funky soul to it. Between the horns and BB King's pipes (not to mention his guitar), it is a little less alternative black and a little more gospel blue.


I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves before love rescued me.
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
Now I stand accused of the things I've said.

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.

Used to make love under a red sunset
I was making promises I was soon to forget.
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town.

I ran into a juke-joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes were turning blue, I was dazed and in a dream.
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town.

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.

I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword.
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide.

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.

The music in this clip doesn't start until about 2:30 into the clip, so fast forward if you just want to hear the music. I do wish they didn't keep interrupting it with earnest documentary scenes cut into the music. They should have just let it roll and put the b roll footage up front. The music more than speaks for itself.

I love it when they are rehearsing and BB King says, "I don't know what to do there...." and Bono replies, "Is that a joke?" Then of course, there is the spot where BB says, "I'm no good a chords." Kind of makes me feel better about some of the things I'm not good at.