What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is the titled of Raymond Carver's l981 collection. The following is a non sequitur. The best food is sometimes right around the corner. More likely than not there's a Burger King within a stone's throw from your house. And if you're eating The Impossible Whopper (whose symbolism is impossible to miss), you are getting a plant based product--that's healthy and doesn't involve the brutalization of animals. The classic crispy chicken, though delicious, satisfies neither of these criteria, but move on to the question of fries. Saying "McDonald's fries are great" is tantamount to the first proposition of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, "the world is all that is the case." Guess what? They're no longer what they once were! The slow food movement is a reaction to the phenomenon of assembly line cooking. But what are you after in a meal, health, taste, economy, alacrity or that ineffable and ultimately elusive catharsis that comes when one attempts to satiate or should one say void the senses?
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