For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the phys… - Anthony Bourdain

In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination — until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you — just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.