With All Due RespectTo the Common Folk
And to Garbo, We'd
Always Choose Food
Greta Garbo: "Bring me something simple. I never think about food."
Waiter: "What do you think about?"
Garbo: "The future of the common people."
--a particularly memorable bit of dialogue from the classic 1939 film Ninotchka. We must admit that this whole notion of never thinking about food seems utterly foreign to us.
7 Comments:
Me too.
Except that you've just shed 20 pounds, and look downright svelte! You ought to write a how-to book.
Sure. Step 1: get laid off. Step 2: stop eating out so much. Step 3: exercise.
But seriously... I was watching the Daily Show last night where Jon Stewart was interviewing the Iranian writer Reza Aslan. According to Aslan, Iranians are good at two things; eating and mourning. "Are you sure you aren't Jews" Stewart retorts.
That's classic. If you replaced mourning with celebrating, I'd say "are you sure you aren't Italians?"
John,
I'd say that's classic!
I will always, always choose food!
Michael
Mike, only we Italian-Americans know that this goes unsaid for us, especially males. It's like someone saying they need oxygen to breathe. In other words, it need not even be said.
Whole-heartedly agreed, John.
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