A non-culinary equivalent might be 's/he didn't suffer fools gladly'. Ergo the rest of us of course do. I heard a bereaved husband say this of his wife at the funeral mass. Yet another good reason for banning funeral eulogies I thought.
Not quite the same thing, but sometimes I find the meaningless platitudes said at funerals irritating. Probably a character flaw on my part. At my father's funeral, somebody said: "He never had a bad word to say about anybody."
My father was the biggest influence on me and the man I admire the most in the whole world, but that was a preposterous claim. He had plenty of bad words to say about a lot of people-- mostly they deserved it!
Indeed. And what is really irritating is that the speakers think they are saying something 'nice.' It prompts me to a general rule: be more careful with compliments than insults.
In this context - "good" translates as "expensive"... And wanting to other people to know he can afford it!
ReplyDeleteDoubtless you are right. I've never felt comfortable in a fancy restaurant. Luckily I've very rarely been in one...
DeleteWhen she was five or six, one of my.sisters wrote this poem:
ReplyDeleteI like good food.
I like bad food.
I like food.
It's a great poem and I heartily endorse the sentiment!
DeleteSo the answer to my question, is: yes. Six-year-old poets!
A non-culinary equivalent might be 's/he didn't suffer fools gladly'. Ergo the rest of us of course do. I heard a bereaved husband say this of his wife at the funeral mass. Yet another good reason for banning funeral eulogies I thought.
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DeleteNot quite the same thing, but sometimes I find the meaningless platitudes said at funerals irritating. Probably a character flaw on my part. At my father's funeral, somebody said: "He never had a bad word to say about anybody."
My father was the biggest influence on me and the man I admire the most in the whole world, but that was a preposterous claim. He had plenty of bad words to say about a lot of people-- mostly they deserved it!
Indeed. And what is really irritating is that the speakers think they are saying something 'nice.' It prompts me to a general rule: be more careful with compliments than insults.
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