Reminds me of the scene in ‘Castaway’, when Tom Hanks is welcomed back . . . all the food on the table is seafood (maybe even some sushi) . . . which he’d been eating for the entire time he’d been cast away on the island. I’ll be he’d’ve LOVED him some hamburger!
Since I see a CIDU tag: They’ve been stuck in a lifeboat for days, their only sustenance the fish they can catch. Miraculously, they find a place they can order food in the middle of the ocean, and the guy orders a fish sandwich. Made me chuckle.
In his 1948 novel CAROLA (published as by Felix C. Forrest), Paul Linebarger’s protagonist is a young U.S. female college student who marries a Chinese exchange student and moves with him to China, where she is not happy, especially when civil war destroys her life there. Most of the book involves her desperate struggle to escape back to the U.S., no matter what she has to suffer to accomplish this, and finally she succeeds. In the last, short chapter she’s put the horrors behind her and is awaiting a date to take her out for dinner.
He announces that they will be going to a place that features that newest, hottest, most unusual and most trendy cusiine: Chinese food.
(Linebarger is also known as sf cult writer “Cordwainer Smith,” but this is one of his mainstream novels.)
“which he’d been eating for the entire time he’d been cast away on the island. I’ll be he’d’ve LOVED him some hamburger!”
Maybe not. After a couple of years away, his body might not have known what to do with red meat, thrown up it’s figurative hands, and just let it slide right on by.
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Reminds me of the scene in ‘Castaway’, when Tom Hanks is welcomed back . . . all the food on the table is seafood (maybe even some sushi) . . . which he’d been eating for the entire time he’d been cast away on the island. I’ll be he’d’ve LOVED him some hamburger!
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Since I see a CIDU tag: They’ve been stuck in a lifeboat for days, their only sustenance the fish they can catch. Miraculously, they find a place they can order food in the middle of the ocean, and the guy orders a fish sandwich. Made me chuckle.
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oh, I get it now … Tom Hanks is so good, they can throw the rest of the cast away.
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‘-) . . . actually, he was. As was Wilson.
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I agree with the explanations of the humor. I find it amusing too. But, *cooked* fish is still a major step up from what they’d been having.
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In his 1948 novel CAROLA (published as by Felix C. Forrest), Paul Linebarger’s protagonist is a young U.S. female college student who marries a Chinese exchange student and moves with him to China, where she is not happy, especially when civil war destroys her life there. Most of the book involves her desperate struggle to escape back to the U.S., no matter what she has to suffer to accomplish this, and finally she succeeds. In the last, short chapter she’s put the horrors behind her and is awaiting a date to take her out for dinner.
He announces that they will be going to a place that features that newest, hottest, most unusual and most trendy cusiine: Chinese food.
(Linebarger is also known as sf cult writer “Cordwainer Smith,” but this is one of his mainstream novels.)
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“which he’d been eating for the entire time he’d been cast away on the island. I’ll be he’d’ve LOVED him some hamburger!”
Maybe not. After a couple of years away, his body might not have known what to do with red meat, thrown up it’s figurative hands, and just let it slide right on by.
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