IVIV: Vegetable of the Day

[John Bailey]

I didn't realise chili was meat - I guess chili is shorthand for chili
con carne right? Shoulda thought of that.

And you could also argue that while Doc veers away from obvious meat
(a beef sandwich, eg) he's happy to eat the heavily processed stuff
that doesn't require him thinking about its origin or makeup (hot
dogs, chili sauce etc). The straightworld is proudly carnivorous; the
hip try to be cool but are seduced by exactly the same systems of
power and greed.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> I once took my hotdog out of the bun in order to put "the works" on the
> roll: mustard, relish, sauerkraut, and ketchup.  I was halfway through
> eating it when I looked down at my plate and saw the dog.  That was a
> vegetarian experience that I've since avoided.
>
> A chili dog is meat on meat, and a specialty of Washington, DC that is even
> featured at Nationals' games because of its ties to the icon of DC civil
> rights eateries, Ben's Chili Bowl.
>
> Henry Mu
> Sr. IT Consultant
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/
>
>
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> Doesn't Pynchon tell us, perhaps indirectly, that chili dogs are largely not
> meat? He does this in his description of the dog. Slather on all that other
> good stuff, and the hot dog itself is merely a carrier, a delivery system.
> Of course, the chili on the dog isn't vegetarian.
>
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