On 9/10/2014 8:19 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
No, not that silly practice that wannabee yogis perform when they want
to feel all self-important for abstaining from doing something they'd
rather be doing than abstaining from. Tapas, the cuisine from Spain. I
felt like having some today, and fortunately in Leiden one can find
pretty much any type of food in the world, so now I'm comfortably
seated at a canalside restaurant enjoying a beer and some albondigas
and calamares and mejillones, abstaining from nothing. *Much* better
form of tapas than that yogi stuff.
I've never understood that "spiritual" kinda tapas, and why people get
off on it. It's like they expect some kinda "brownie points" for
*resisting* something that the Natural Tendency Of Their Minds is
drawing them towards? WTF? Just doesn't compute for me.
I don't even get the concept. I mean, is some god or some Law Of
Nature supposed to be *impressed* by some monk who (similar to TM guys
on rounding courses) spends 90% of his time thinking about sex, but
isn't really ever gettin' any? Seems to me that the god or the Law in
question would want the guy to Go Get Laid Already, so that he could
come back to meditation and spend a little time transcending.
Anyway, I like the Spanish version of tapas much more. Little dishes
of fish or shellfish or veggies or meats, small enough so that you can
order 3 to start with and stop there if that satisfies you, or order 3
more (or 12 more) if the first course doesn't. It's a perfect eating
style for me, because I tend to have a small appetite and like to
"graze," rather than eating a long, full meal. YMMV.
This is a very important post. We now know that bawee likes to graze
rather than eat a full meal. I will go forth today feeling that much
more enriched and empowered. Keep these posts coming bawee. And, I was
not disappointed because you were able, as is your usual style and
form, to denigrate others while showing the rest of us how lucky and
special you are because you have access to tapas in Leiden. Well done.
I have a feeling you did not take this picture of the actual meal you
consumed.
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Apparently they spent 100 years fighting a war over in NE over this
issue - the War On Tapas. Finally, they kicked out the Spaniards, but
now here comes a guy that loves the tapas. Go figure. Maybe he should go
back to Sitges, Spain, if he wanted some real tapas. Isn't that kind of
like eating Mexican food in Vedic City?
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