and the way he dresses, with his pants pulled so high over his gut. He looks like a frumpy Grandfather, and the guy is in his 40’s, Schmendrick nebbish…
From dictionary.reference.com:
*Slang Dictionary
schlemiel definition
[ʃləˈmil]
and schlemihl; shlemiel
n.
a gullible person; a loser. (From Hebrew Shelumiel via Yiddish.) : See if you can get that schlemiel to buy the Brooklyn Bridge*
Hilarious.
Seriously guys, in spite of Zimmerns checkered past, apparent disgustingness of his mastication of food […] and ah, general jowly fatness I have to say I love his show.
I really like the message of bridging cultures with food and making friends/acquaintances across the world in such a way…even if its just TV.
Maybe there’s more to that than we give credence to, at least, in America.
If another man on the other side of the world eats something as part of his diet for survival, it means you can eat it, too, and it will sustain you, and sometimes, what most of us would turn our noses up at, it might actually taste good to boot.
Let’s petition world leaders to fight wars of a culinary stripe rather than with weapons!
We’ll win them over with super-sized portions!!
Damn–I always thought that was how one was supposed to eat?!