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What's the best description of a meal you've ever read?

> inb4 Ulysses and the liver

>> No.7032874

>>7032872
Ignatius and the hot dogs

>> No.7032882

>>7032874
20 corn dogs, in a brown bag, each 50 cents.

>> No.7032886
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7032886

Always thought those meals from the Odyssey and Iliad sounded good. All that fat wrapped around meat and wine and honey

>> No.7032902

>>7032872
I enjoy Murakami's cooking descriptions.

>> No.7032906

>>7032902

Came to say this. Not a big fan of Murakami but when he talks about having a can of beer while making some al dente spaghetti it's comfy as fuck.

>> No.7032912

The Redwall books have amazing meal descriptions.

>> No.7032918

>>7032906
>>7032902
are there any books of his in particular you are talking about?

>> No.7032957

>>7032906

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has a good one, I believe. It's the only redeeming scene of that novel.

>> No.7032964

>>7032872
Not a meal, but Slothrop eating English "candies" in Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.7032972

>>7032912
Came to this

>> No.7032976

reading 2666 made me hungry, i don't know why, he's not very descriptive, but all the same

>> No.7032977

The bunker in The Road