Thursday, September 28, 2006

... Umm I believe I ordered mine Kosher?

Beijing's Penis Emporium
- BBC News (no really, it's not Fox)

So this post is a little more low-brow than the others, but I'm on deadline at work and I feel that the content is just too rich to pass up. There's something about an entire article on China's apparent nation-wide fixation with eating cock that simply must be discussed.

I mean here's something the entire male population of the Western World has been trying to convince women (and I guess some dudes) of for centuries: A dick in the mouth is good for body, mind and soul. A heart-felt thank you goes out to the People's Republic of China for finally driving this point home and to Andrew Harding, special penis-eating correspondent to the BBC for bringing it to our attention.

Nancy, the waitress-cum-nutritionist at The Guolizhuang (pronounced goal-is-wang?) penis restaurant, is by far my favourite waitress ever. I mean where else can you hear "They're having the penis hotpot" or "Women don't come here so often, and they shouldn't eat testicles" (good advice) from your server? Not Kelsey's or Jack Astor's I can assure you of that. She's obviously very experienced, I can now rest more easily knowing that tiger penis tastes "just like all the others" despite it's exorbitant pricing. I guess the proof must be in the pudding in this case, I wonder if it comes as a dipping sauce.

This is one of the reasons I don't enjoy Asian mystery restauranting even along the tame streets of Toronto's downtown core. One of my worst nightmares is passing a quaint, upscale establishment only to find the menu populated by various assortments of animal dick; and God help me if I didn't have a Nancy there to let me know what I was getting myself into.

I recall an entire class in my post-grad program devoted to writing interesting and thought-provoking captions for the images that accompany a news article. The gist of it was not to call out the obvious, but rather to give some sort of insight into the 'bigger picture.' So when I saw a caption under a picture of various animal penises hanging from a hook that reads: "The Chinese believe that eating penis can enhance your virility," I felt a special appreciation for the simplicity and clarity of the message. Why call out the obvious fact that they're animal penises, maybe that's just this one special case. Bravo caption guy... you must not have fallen asleep that day either.

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