[Reader-list] Buff or beef?

[Aman Sethi]

oops ...
it has just been suggested to me that tapas actually means the
opposite of what i think he does ... in which case i apologise .. :)

Peace be with everyone -

a.

On 1/5/07, Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has got to be the most bizzare response i have recieved in my
> life .... am not sure what Tapas's point is, especially the bit about
> spinach, fermented soya bean (tofu?) and asoka's india ...
>
> what i am sure about is that i am deeply suspicious of is those who
> want others to join them in condeming something or someone -like a
> sort of cluster-fuck of condemnation.
> And peace be with you too
> A.
>
> On 12/27/06, Tapas Ray <t.ray at vsnl.com> wrote:
> > Peace be with you, Aman, and thank you for sharing that Salon piece.
> >
> > We, the peaceful fish, cow, fermented soya bean, buffalo, goat, spinach,
> > sheep, swine, dog (yes, dog), deer (illegally), pike (illegally), pigeon,
> > chicken, larvae (yes, larvae), snail, snake gourd, and maybe snake eaters of
> > India, gave ourselves on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, that
> > admirable document
> > which did not bar us from eating anything or anyone. However, we have never
> > mistaken
> > liberty for licence, and (hopefully) stooped so low as to feed ducks with
> > tubes. We have always killed peaceably, in a humane manner. That is the
> > difference between Asoka's India and New Jersey, Garden State of America,
> > aka America's armpit on account of the smells emanating from its varied
> > chemical factories.
> >
> > So please join me in condemning those insensitive wannabe-French Americans
> > of New York, not to speak of the French themselves - although they are so
> > anti-American and so philosophical and so postmodern, maybe even
> > postpostmodern - who can be so cruel to ducks for a moment's gastronomic
> > pleasure.
> >
> > Peace!
> >
> > Tapas
> >
> > > Personally, i have no beef with either vegetarians or cow eaters, but
> > > i would urge those interested to read an Anthony Bourdain interview "I
> > > want my foie gras" on salon.com ... you can read it here
> > > http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/10/05/ruhlman_bourdain_foie/index.html
> > >
> > > A.
> >
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