Fishbowl Fishbowl!
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aldersprigToday is ysabetwordsmith's monthly poetry fishbowl!
The theme is chocolate and other food... go leave her a prompt.
I had a bit of fun with mine, listed below, as it ended up a little bit like poetry.
Food as family.
(and the way it sits on familial hips)
Food as abuse.
(and the way it took me seven years to be comfortable eating in front of a guy after my ex.)
Food as comfort (And the way I bring my spouse!man cookies, the way he makes me broth with chives when I'm sick)... or is that food as love?
Food as tradition (and the way my grandmother's cookies (lebcuchens? Must have been her mother-in-law's recipe) are now my mother's and my Christmas habit).
Food as necessity (and the lean year of beans and rice and bbq sauce)...
...food as obligation:
That was a phrase of Sybil's that got to him. She'd announce at lunch: "we must have the pork tonight, it needs eating up." Vimes never had an actual problem with this, because he'd been raised to eat what was put in front of him, and do it quickly, too, before someone else snatched it away. He was just puzzled at the suggestion that he was there to do the food a favour.
--Terry Pratchett, Thud, pg 334, footnote
(and the way we've been eating quite a few apples lately, in everything).
ysabetwordsmith's monthly poetry fishbowl!The theme is chocolate and other food... go leave her a prompt.
I had a bit of fun with mine, listed below, as it ended up a little bit like poetry.
Food as family.
(and the way it sits on familial hips)
Food as abuse.
(and the way it took me seven years to be comfortable eating in front of a guy after my ex.)
Food as comfort (And the way I bring my spouse!man cookies, the way he makes me broth with chives when I'm sick)... or is that food as love?
Food as tradition (and the way my grandmother's cookies (lebcuchens? Must have been her mother-in-law's recipe) are now my mother's and my Christmas habit).
Food as necessity (and the lean year of beans and rice and bbq sauce)...
...food as obligation:
That was a phrase of Sybil's that got to him. She'd announce at lunch: "we must have the pork tonight, it needs eating up." Vimes never had an actual problem with this, because he'd been raised to eat what was put in front of him, and do it quickly, too, before someone else snatched it away. He was just puzzled at the suggestion that he was there to do the food a favour.
--Terry Pratchett, Thud, pg 334, footnote
(and the way we've been eating quite a few apples lately, in everything).
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Date: 2011-12-06 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-06 09:02 pm (UTC)I'm always confused, because that's what she called them (two words, lap kucken, I assume it was just pronunciation shift), but they were/are cookies.