Sunday, October 07, 2007

Enjoy Every Sandwich

Warren Zevon appeared on the David Letterman show shortly before he died of lung cancer. When asked about how his illness affected his outlook on life, Zevon said simply "Enjoy every sandwich".

An eatery in Maine has been offering its sandwich called "The Skinny Dip" free to anyone willing to dive off the restaurant's dock into Moosehead Lake. The owner of the Black Frog Restaurant, Leigh Turner, says that they get two to three takers a week since the offer began three years ago.

Generally the divers get a round of applause from the other patrons, and it's all in good fun, but now one customer decided that the activity was inappropriate and has complained to the town, getting the Selectboard and the Police Chief involved in the matter, and the restaurant's liquor licence could be in jeopardy.

There's always someone in the crowd who doesn't know what it really means to "enjoy every sandwich", and generally that one uptight individual goes on a mission to make sure that nobody else gets to sample a simple pleasure of life. I hope that the "Skinny Dip" sandwich challenge survives this attack of political correctness.

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