Wise Words on Wednesday: Meat

Steak

“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage.

Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?”

– CS Lewis, Mere Christianity (Book III)

One comment

  • I’ve always found this quote intriguing, because in the US today, we do have a disordered attitude towards food, and we do have “food porn”.

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