And in Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close’s character, Alex Forrest, boils a pet rabbit. I forgot the name of the character so I just searched for it. This morsel showed up as the first result.
The story really fits the thread. And why on Earth did she return without a whole squad of police?
M.F.K. Fisher discussed this concept in An Alphabet for Gourmets. After providing a “soothing” scrambled eggs recipe to be served “with gentle love” (and which takes about half an hour to cook!), she added:
I always took that expression (and it’s companion, “made me want to slap my grandmother”) to mean it would make you so delirious with pleasure that you’d do things you wouldn’t ordinarily do.
I keep thinking of the Oasis song whenever I see the thread title…
And so, salad ain’t great When it’s made with hate, Could be from a pig sty. Don’t go ‘Gordon Ramsey’ today And don’t make meals with anger I heard you say
When I was a kid, the family took a trip to the Oregon coast. We fished for Crabs. You had to measure them and throw back the little ones. Well, one of these Rascals pinched my dad, so he kept him and ate him out of spite.
