{"id":239,"date":"2005-05-05T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2005-05-05T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:21:36","slug":"all-your-obsession-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/05\/all-your-obsession-belong-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"All your obsession belong to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke goes like this:<br \/>\nThe definition of heaven is where<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the British are in charge of hospitality;<\/li>\n<li>the Italians are in charge of entertainment;<\/li>\n<li>the Germans are in charge of organization;<\/li>\n<li>and the French are in charge of food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The definition of hell is where<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the French are in charge of hospitality;<\/li>\n<li>the Germans are in charge of entertainment;<\/li>\n<li>the Italians are in charge of organization;<\/li>\n<li>and the British are in charge of food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a more global world view, if you used America&#8217;s actual predilections there&#8217;d be a whole lot of food available, and it would all sort of suck.<\/p>\n<p>Americans seem to have two obsessions lately: physical perfection and food.  This sort of makes sense since what you put in your body tends to effect how it looks, whether that&#8217;s a <acronym title=\"bigger than both giant and enormous. Larger than life. See: www.slangsite.com\/slang\/G.html\">ginormous<\/acronym> hamburger or heroin.  I guess, then, that the combination of these two obsessions into an advertising campaign was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen them, the commercials to which I am referring are for Burger King&#8217;s remodeled Double Whopper hamburger.  In these :60 bits of psychological insight a man is getting a consult from a plastic surgeon who has outlined the new, larger size of his mouth that will be needed to accommodate the BK Double Whopper.  A second version takes the plastic surgery craze one step further by recommending a complete hand replacement with a much larger model that will be able to better hold the burger.<\/p>\n<p>Am I wrong to be frightened by the easy acceptance of the idea that someone would do radical body modification to increase his ability to eat what is, essentially, junk food?  I&#8217;m all for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frattoys.com\/product.asp?numRecordPosition=1&#038;P_ID=129&#038;strPageHistory=cat&#038;strKeywords=&#038;SearchFor=&#038;PT_ID=68\">beer helmet<\/a> but the line has to get drawn somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke goes like this: The definition of heaven is where the British are in charge of hospitality; the Italians are in charge of entertainment; the Germans are in charge of organization; and the French are in charge of food. The definition of hell is where the French are in charge of hospitality; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}