Topical Guide 550
Mark Dorset
Food: Nachos
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 7:
“MACHO NACHOS?” A waiter has arrived at Matthew’s elbow, holding what looks like a tray that must, surely, hold several orders of nachos.
“Oh,” Matthew says. “Yes.”
Sins: Seven Deadly: Gluttony
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 7:
“I think you’ve got all of the basic food groups there,” says one of the boys, not the girl in the elastic skirt.
All the food groups and one of the deadly sins, says BW.
“All the food groups and one of the deadly sins,” says Matthew.
Very good! says BW. Now that’s wit.
“Huh?” says the boy, indicating that, among the responses he had expected to hear, this wasn’t one. “Oh, yeah,” he says, brightening. “Um, gluttony, right?”
“The seven deadly sins are — ” He pauses to give any of them a chance to supply one. They regard him with restrained curiosity, as if he were their teacher; he’s struck by the notion that he is. “Gluttony, pride, covetousness, anger, envy, sloth, and — ” He pauses again, and he marks the pause with a sip of his drink, as Liz would have marked it with a puff on her cigarette, when she was smoking. “Lust,” he says, turning quite frankly toward the elasticized girl.
See aslo:
Food, Appetite for TG 56; Food, Chicken, Chicken versus Clams TG 44; Food: as Significant Element of a Remembered Incident and Its Literary Reproduction TG 34; Salami TG 135; Food: Preferences: Chicken versus Clams TG 155; Food: In Popular Culture TG 155; Food: International Cuisines in Translation: Chinese: Chow Mein TG 400; Food: Kartoffelklösse TG 367; Food: Aïoli, Chocolate Decadence TG 424; Food: Artificial TG 460; Cooking TG 463; Food and Drink: Kir Royale, Fusilli Bolognese TG 469; Cultural Differences in Styles, Methods, and Etiquette of Eating TG 492; “Leftovers” TG 494; Swiss: Züri Gschnätzlets TG 513; Fictional: Bouillabaisse Stir-Fry TG 539
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