Sunday, June 17, 2007

Fat, Food, and Filosophy (And Vietnam Has Nothing To Do With This Post...

...except that Vietnamese eat alot, foreigners in Vietnam eat less but Vietnamese are thin and foreigners are,in comparison, bigger and from my observations, Filipinos arethe baddest fattest Southeast Asians, salamat adobo.)

The existential catastrophe for Schopenhauer was not so much eating as munching. Schopenhauer railed against the aimless nibbling of peanuts and potato chips while one engaged in other activities. Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.(Woody Allen, Thus Ate Zarathustra in The New Yorker)

okay, okay, toi hieu.

...Kant... proposed that we order lunch in such a manner that if everybody orders the same thing the world would function in a moral way. The problem Kant didn't foresee is that if everyone orders the same dish, there will be a squabbling in the kitchen over who gets the last branzino. "Order like you are ordering for every human being on earth," Kant advises, but what if the man next to you doesn't eat guacamole. (Woody Allen, Thus Ate Zarathustra in The New Yorker)

and if I start eating pho every day, would I be thinner?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Will you be thinner if you eat pho? Well this article would say yes because you may be dead :-)

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070617/D8PQ92600.html

Ching Santos said...

Woooooo! Pho for the win! \o/

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