thursday, november 9, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
'Dangerous culinary malaise' invades campus culture
By Ben T. Shomshor
American attitudes
toward food and its effects
appear most intense in the
university microcosm of
society. I'm not speaking of
percent of the women on
this campus are suffering
from terminal cases of
anorexia nervosa.
No real meals
They never eat dinner (a
pizza with sausage, mush-
notes from
table 8
the attitudes toward and the
effects of chili and beer.
We've all noticed the intense
effect of that legendary Sat
urday night combination.
There is a more subtle, and
more dangerous culinary
malaise pervading our cul
ture which results in a dis
crimination quite as abhor
rent to my sensibilities as
that resulting from Plessy v.
Ferguson.
How many lasses do you
know who claim to eat one
meal per day? How many
more do you see eating only
yogurt and a tossed salad
with lemon juice for lunch?
I should believe that 8
rooms and extra cheese
apparently counts only as a
light snack) or breakfast (al
though these same people
clean the Union Bakery of
cream puffs every after
noon), and the next day
they do penance for their
imagined sins by consuming
more tossed salads with
lemon juice.
They are victims of a
myth perpetuated by the
American publishing, adver
tising and fashion industries.
The myth holds that the
most eligible bachelors are
those who wear tapered
European-cut suits, and that
the only women worth
taking second notice of are
potential models for the
latest line of sweater
dresses. HOGWASH!
Even this writer is not
immune to the Madison
Avenue commands. The de
spised diet began shortly
after my wife referred
endearingly to me as "der
apfelknodel meines lebens."
Like lumpy pears
It is no accident of
nature that some of us have
physiques akin to lumpy
pears. Pleasantly rounded
body shapes are painstaking
ly built by our eating habits.
Some of us had the good
fortune to enjoy arrested
psychological development
during our oral stages.
Others had to make a con
scious effort occasionally at
great expense, to cover
unsightly, hard and pointy
skeletal projections with
layers of soft padding.
To refresh your memory,
let me remind you that
dining is an art. The skillful
diner applies thought and
years of experience to his
Mu rde r intellect
explored in fi Im
Last Chants for a Slow
Dance (Deadend), a film
that explores the mentality
of a murderer, and is based
partially on Gary Gilmore,
will be shown today, Friday
and Saturday at the Sheldon
Film Theatre.
Described by director,
writer, producer and
photographer Jon Jost as 4a
slice of Americana,' the film
follows one man, Tom,
throughout a series of every
day scenes in the weeks
leading up to his apparent
ly motiveless murder of a
man he's never met before.
'Tart of it came from my
time in jail, where I met a
lot of people who all had
the same kind of brash,
mindless self-centeredness:
"Oh, I'm just the free ram
bling individualist person
that doesn't owe anybody
anything," and you build up
all these responsibilities and
then just walk away from
them whenever you don't
like them," Jost explained.
"So I was trying to deal
with a sexual type, cowboy
macho, and then I wanted
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task. Of equal importance is
the aspect of dining as a
sensual art. The true lover
of food and drink empha
sizes an appreciation of tex
ture, scent, flavor and color.
He represents the totally
sensual person.
Experienced diner
How do you recognize
the experienced and sensual
diner when you see one on
the street? There is no fool
proof rule but a general
guideline is to look for the
layers of body fat char
acteristic of epicures. Thus,
I offer you the following
proposition: Plump people
make better lovers.
Plump people are not
only sensualists par excel
lence; there are numerous
other reasons for choosing a
plump lover. We are cuddly.
Years of denying ourselves
the momentary pleasures of
sudden and hasty movement
cause us to be patient,
gentle and leisurely lovers.
Best of all, the dangers of
bruises caused by the bony
projections which are the
bane of the pitifully thin are
safely eliminated.
Now, who can resist the
temptation of a plump
lover? Cast away your
tossed salads, order two eggs
with biscuits and grits for
breakfast. A new age is
dawning and there may still
be time for you to be in
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