January 5, 2003

• Culinary Theology

  
  

  A comment on ”Whirligig,” the previous entry:

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  When I hear ‘red mill,’ I think Red Mill.	Red Mill Burgers
  Posted 1/5/2003 at 5:10 am by HomerTheBrave.

  
  

  From my favorite theologian, Jimmy Buffett:

  
  

  “Well good God Almighty,
  which way do I steer for my

  
  

  Chorus:
  Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise)
  Makin’ the best of every virtue and vice (paradise)
  Worth every damn bit of sacrifice (paradise)
  To get a cheeseburger in paradise
  To be a cheeseburger in paradise
  I’m just a cheeseburger in paradise!”

  
  

  For some, paradise — or at least the gateway to paradise — is at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

  
  

  From a one-act version (p. xvi) of
  “The Night of the Iguana”:

  
  

  “MISS JELKES: Is this the menu? (She has picked up a paper on the table.)

  
  

  SHANNON: Yes, it’s the finest piece of rhetoric since Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.”

  
  

  “Cheeseburger In Paradise, Puerto Vallarta, opened for business on November 7, 1999.” — The same date, mentioned in last night’s “Whirligig” entry, that Fox Studios Australia opened in Sydney with a song by Kylie Minogue. 

  
  

   

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