Weird foodie surrealism and fantasy authors
Charles Meigh
I'm sorry I think I may be a bit loopy, but wile chatting in #eddings, I was
struck by a thought <thump>.
What if fantasy authors and their worlds were foods?
DE is a good wholesome, simple picnic - fresh bread, smoked hams, cheeses,
slabs of butter, honey, apples, maybe a cold chicken. With a modest
quantity of ale cooled in the flow of a mountain stream.
Tolkien is roast beef with horseradish sauce, yorkshires, roast taters,
parsnips, cabbage, carrots all followed by a light and airy apple soufle
that tasted great, but you could never adequately describe to friends; and
to drink, white wine <gasps from the wine experts> (The following morning
sees a full fried breakfast)
Robert Jordan is a not too orgiastic Roman feast (eaten reclined) with
seemingly interminable courses such things as lark's tongues and stuffed
boar's bladder, but you can't help trying some as each course appears.
Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I may be
a couple of raisins short of a bun.
Castellan (wondering if someone has been dosing his coffee with something
Nyissan)
Beldin
"Charles Meigh" <charle...@obvious.spam.blocker.diamond.co.uk>,
having nothing better to do, produced the following drivel:
>What if fantasy authors and their worlds were foods?
>Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I may be
>a couple of raisins short of a bun.
Nope. Terry Pratchett would be that brand of snack cake in that (in
America) is called a Ho-Ho.
Beldin
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Dom Wynn
Beldin wrote:
>
>
> >What if fantasy authors and their worlds were foods?
>
this is possibly the most deranged thread I have ever seen. Authors seen
as food. All I can think of for the pair of you is just a jar of
pickles.....
How about Authors as cars? :)
Eddings as a Ford (popular and reliable)
Tolkein as a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost (lots of prestige..bit dull
nowadays)
Jordan as a limo (its a very long product....*hoho*)
etc...
Brooks as a Peugot (it'll break down often towards the end)
I won't try and make a suggestion as far as who might be the cheap East
European Export...(enuff controversy recently with the 'Edit' thread).
> >Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I may be
> >a couple of raisins short of a bun.
more like a whole bloomin' jar if you ask me :)
> Nope. Terry Pratchett would be that brand of snack cake in that (in
> America) is called a Ho-Ho.
>
> Beldin
>
or is that a Ha-Ha? (pratchett ref - any pratch fans recall which book
it was in for a bonus point?)
Dom
Aquarius
Dom Wynn <domini...@conted.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> or is that a Ha-Ha? (pratchett ref - any pratch fans recall which book
> it was in for a bonus point?)
>
> Dom
grumble...mumble..oof...
It was built by the excellent and most notorious B.S.Johnson.
Interesting Times, I think....
Aq.
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Ce'Nedra
In article <66v0d8$n...@news5-gui.server.cableol.net>, Charles Meigh
<charle...@obvious.spam.blocker.diamond.co.uk> inscribed:
>Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I may be
>a couple of raisins short of a bun.
After extensive research, I have decided that TP is Ben & Jerry's Cookie
Dough Ice cream - smooth, enjoyable with random tangy chucks thrown in
to heighten pleasure. ;)
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Charles Meigh
Ce'Nedra wrote in message ...
>After extensive research, I have decided that TP is Ben & Jerry's Cookie
>Dough Ice cream - smooth, enjoyable with random tangy chucks thrown in
>to heighten pleasure. ;)
>
Oh cruel fate...I now live in a town where neapolitan flavour is considered
avant garde and Ben & Jerry's is a distant memory. And choc chip cookie
dough is my fave flavour - oh misery.
BTW I agree with you and confer the Big Mac and fries to Danielle Steele :-)
Castellan - licenced to kill with fife, bun or rubber band
Dom Wynn
Aquarius wrote:
>
> Dom Wynn <domini...@conted.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > or is that a Ha-Ha? (pratchett ref - any pratch fans recall which book
> > it was in for a bonus point?)
> >
> > Dom
>
> grumble...mumble..oof...
> It was built by the excellent and most notorious B.S.Johnson.
> Interesting Times, I think....
>
> Aq.
>
arrrrrrrgh! lost me books - once I find them I can confirm or deny! It
was BS Johnson tho'....(a man after my own heart :)
Dom
Andrew Stoner
*>Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I
*>may be a couple of raisins short of a bun.
*
*After extensive research, I have decided that TP is Ben & Jerry's
*Cookie Dough Ice cream - smooth, enjoyable with random tangy chucks
*thrown in to heighten pleasure. ;)
Wow. You just got me to laugh after staying up all night with a sick
Philosophy final. Never try to define a soul.
Your right about Pratchett, though. He IS Cookie Dough ice cream -
perfect for a treat.
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-- Terry Pratchett, "Jingo"
Ce'Nedra
In article <3498e0b3....@news.wesleyan.edu>, Andrew Stoner
<ast...@wesleyan.Quest.Rulez.edu> inscribed:
>*>Is Terry Pratchett a Big Mac and fries? I can't decide, but then I
>
>*>may be a couple of raisins short of a bun.
>*
>*After extensive research, I have decided that TP is Ben & Jerry's
>*Cookie Dough Ice cream - smooth, enjoyable with random tangy chucks
>*thrown in to heighten pleasure. ;)
>
>Wow. You just got me to laugh after staying up all night with a sick
>Philosophy final. Never try to define a soul.
Philosophy final?
Hmmm, just out of interest would you agree that Hume succeeds in
reconciling his view of determinism (causal theory of human action) with
public beliefs? :)
(not that I have to do a talk about it on Friday or anything...)
As for the soul, I'm an empiricist, it doesn't exist. ;)
(and Leibniz can take his monadology and put it where the sun doesn't
shine!) (yes, in that valley in the Ramtops....)
>Your right about Pratchett, though. He IS Cookie Dough ice cream -
>perfect for a treat.
>"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day.
> Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
New method for tackling spammers?!
Ce'Nedra
In article <6772if$d...@news5-gui.server.cableol.net>, Charles Meigh
<charle...@obvious.spam.blocker.diamond.co.uk> inscribed:
>
>Ce'Nedra wrote in message ...
>>Dough Ice cream - smooth, enjoyable with random tangy chucks thrown in
>>to heighten pleasure. ;)
>>
>Oh cruel fate...I now live in a town where neapolitan flavour is considered
>avant garde and Ben & Jerry's is a distant memory. And choc chip cookie
>dough is my fave flavour - oh misery.
Where do you live? Surely there has to be some Safeway/large supermarket
near you? Most of them have it.
>BTW I agree with you and confer the Big Mac and fries to Danielle Steele :-)
And her peers (Catherine Cookson, Barbara CArtland, etc!)
Teut
I'm not sure why, but Dom Wynn <domini...@conted.ox.ac.uk> posted
this on Wed, 17 Dec 1997, and called it " Weird foodie surrealism and
fantasy authors " as well:
>> > or is that a Ha-Ha? (pratchett ref - any pratch fans recall which book
>> > it was in for a bonus point?)
>> >
>> > Dom
Guards Guards, surely?
Teut
Aquarius
Ce'
> Hmmm, just out of interest would you agree that Hume succeeds in
> reconciling his view of determinism (causal theory of human action) with
> public beliefs? :)
He certainly managed it more successfully than Kant[1] manages to do
anything at all :)
"All of Western philosophy is footnotes to Plato".
Alfred North Whitehead (iirc). Now there was a man who knew what he was
on about. :)
Aq - Plato fan
[1] avoiding intentional mis-spelling
Ce'Nedra
In article <1d1gz6u.pd...@host5-99-55-201.btinternet.com>,
Aquarius <A...@btinternet.com> inscribed:
>Ce'
>> Hmmm, just out of interest would you agree that Hume succeeds in
>> reconciling his view of determinism (causal theory of human action) with
>> public beliefs? :)
>
>He certainly managed it more successfully than Kant[1] manages to do
>anything at all :)
I'll take that as a yes then. :)
(that was going to be my answer anyway, until a girl I know confused me
by saying otherwise. Hmmph, what does she know.. ) ;)
>"All of Western philosophy is footnotes to Plato".
>Alfred North Whitehead (iirc). Now there was a man who knew what he was
>on about. :)
>
>Aq - Plato fan
I don't know much about him, (haven't had any courses on him) but what I
have heard of I don't agree with at all....... Platonic forms? Yeah,
*right*...
But I'll shut up now, before we go any further off-topic. :)
Zeshan
Aquarius <A...@btinternet.com> wrote in article
<1d1bou1.lb3...@host5-99-60-226.btinternet.com>...
<snip>
> > or is that a Ha-Ha? (pratchett ref - any pratch fans recall which
book
> > it was in for a bonus point?)
> >
> > Dom
>
> grumble...mumble..oof...
> It was built by the excellent and most notorious B.S.Johnson.
> Interesting Times, I think....
>
> Aq.
Sure it wasn't Men at Arms ?
Zeshan
Walker
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Walker looks up from his tome. In article <1d1gz6u.pdhqdr5jmsn7N@host5-
99-55-201.btinternet.com>, A...@btinternet.com says...
>
> "All of Western philosophy is footnotes to Plato".
> Alfred North Whitehead (iirc). Now there was a man who knew what he was
> on about. :)
>
> Aq - Plato fan
>
"All of Platonic philosophy is footnotes to Pythagoras". -Walker
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