Sunday, January 25, 2009

My Most Recent Essay for English 201

There is a saying that declares: if food tastes dreadful, it’s excellent for consumption. If food tastes excellent it’s dreadful for consumption. I agree, to some extent. But if food tastes dreadful, it can be dreadful for consumption. If food tastes excellent, it can be excellent for consumption.

There is a saying about the appearance of food: if food looks excellent, it will taste excellent. If food looks dreadful, it will taste dreadful. I agree, to some extent. But if food looks excellent, it may taste dreadful. If food looks dreadful, it may taste excellent.

Spinach, avocado, honey—they’re really not worth your money. I’ve heard that they’re good, but I’m still not positive that it’s appealing enough to eat something so disgusting just for vitamins when I can earn my vitamins elsewhere. They are not worth the sacrifice of gagging for some nutrients.

Doritos, cinnamon rolls, and ice cream generally taste delicious, especially the extra spicy Doritos, the not-too-sweet cinnamon rolls, and Breyers and Tillamook ice cream. They are always fatal to immune systems.

Big Macs taste dreadful. And guess what? They are dreadfully unhealthy. Peanut butter cookies are made of sugar, sugar, and sugar. They are appalling. Krispy Kreme Donuts taste frightful. They are made of sugar, oil, sugar, and oil. And sugar. (i.f.)

Green beans, peas, oranges, corn, dill pickles, apples, tomatoes, olives, grapefruit, honeydew melon, lettuce, and fresh, whole-wheat, homemade bread taste delicious and are actually healthy.

Chocolate truffles and cheesecake are heavenly to the eyes, fatal to the immune system. Forfeiting comfort of the stomach for the delight of the tongue is a sacrifice everyone must make. No one has lived before tasting a truffle.

I have no explanation for the reason that people enjoy fried grasshoppers, mushrooms, and liver. There is absolutely nothing appetizing about their look, feel, taste, or nutritional value.

Mud pie, cow tongue tacos, and sushi certainly look delectable. Unfortunately, they are revolting to the taste. Appearances can be misleading.

Wasp honey, vinaigrettes, and asparagus are all models of deliciousness in the form of ugliness. Never should I refuse to try something because of the way it looks. Never should I make judgments on the quality of something before testing it first.

Food comes in various forms: dreadfully excellent; excellently dreadful; dreadfully dreadful; excellently excellent. To know which category a food falls into I must test it. I cannot judge what I do not know.

1 comment:

  1. Why, hello. Just wondering, have your food tastes morphed recently? Or is honey still "not worth the sacrifice of gagging for some nutrients"? ;)

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