User: marahmarie Date: 2011-03-13 04:33 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I've been meaning to comment on this - here in the states we have what's called (on the label) "Worcestershire sauce". Is Worcester sauce the same thing?

And I don't know about over there, but over here our print and TV ads regularly make everything from meat to chips into some human-like thing. It is creepy and weird. As in, why would you ever want to eat something you can actually relate to?

Even Frito-Lays chips over here remind you that you're killing something in order to eat by printing, "We grow the best snacks on Earth" on every bag.

It's disconcerting, to say the least - it also got me thinking that you have to kill *everything* you want to eat (or it has to be killed for you, same difference, I guess) or you'd starve to death, which got me wondering why - why is every animal in the food chain (and all the insects, and all other life forms) dependent on living things for their meals? Why couldn't we all just eat rocks or minerals and get by that way?

I don't get why the entire food chain is designed to consume itself from top to bottom. It seems cruel. :)

User: sophie Date: 2011-03-13 07:36 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

That's a good question, and one I don't readily have an answer for.

The closest thing I can come up with for an answer right now is that life begets life. Even, apparently, when it's dead.

[edit: Oh, andWikipedia says that the two sauces are the same thing: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce ]

Edited 2011-03-13 07:37 am (UTC)

User: marahmarie Date: 2011-03-13 14:39 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

"...life begets life. Even, apparently, when it's dead." So true - and so funny. I just love that line. :)

Worcestershire sauce has always been a big sore point in my house because up until my mid-20s or so I couldn't pronounce the name of it. My mom pounced on me each time I got it wrong. I would say, "Wor-cest-i-SHIRE". Apparently, it's "Worst-are-SHEER", and my mom has enough of my snotty English/Irish grandfather's crested blood in her to absolutely never let it go.

So when I saw "Worcester sauce" in your post it really caught my eye, since, for one thing, it looks a lot easier to pronounce. Now I can really drive my mom up a wall, since I know she doesn't have any idea that there's this variant on the spelling. :)

Edited 2011-03-13 02:41 pm (UTC)

User: sophie Date: 2011-03-13 15:51 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Your Mom is right, yeah, you're not supposed to pronounce the "cesti". But the shorter word is just pronounced "Worst-er sauce", so if you're not a fan of it, you can just pretend that it's the one word you're allowed to use REALLY bad grammar on. ;)