Jan 21, 2007 22:37
"you can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act - that is, watch a girl undress on the stage. now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let everyone see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? and would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think that there was something equally queer about the state of sex instinct among us?
there is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips."
C.S. Lewis