# Warning! VCO3 Will Tamper With Your Food! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383 "2007-05-24T17:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/281 "2007-05-29T05:47:39Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] Hijack: What’s this _Wild Sargasso Sea_ business? I assume it’s a book, but I’ve never heard of it. Is it good? [/QUOTE] It’s by Jean Rhys: it’s a feminist, post-colonial take on _Jane Eyre_ from Bertha Rochester’s POV, detailing her past in the West Indies and just how she came to be locked in that attic. It’s a while since I’ve read it - used to be a favourite on high school reading lists - but it’s not that long, and probably worth checcking out. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/282 "2007-05-29T17:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] **Shamozzle** Whoa, you threw away someone’s engagement ring? I hope someone beats you down randomly, and the memory seaps into your mind while you are wondering what you did to deserve it. Fuck man, some things are sacred. [/QUOTE] But she forgot to say “thank you” and “please” to him. She deserved everything she got. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/283 "2007-05-29T18:03:33Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] Hijack: What’s this _Wild Sargasso Sea_ business? I assume it’s a book, but I’ve never heard of it. Is it good? [/QUOTE] As was pointed out, the book is actually _ **WIDE** Sargasso Sea_. Just to amplify on **Scissorjack’s** post (possibly unnecessarily): One of the major plot points of _Jane Eyre_ was Mr. Rochester’s inability to marry Jane because he was already married. His first wife was insane, and he kept her shut away in the attic. Jane and Mr. Rochester were only to able to find happiness at the end of _Jane Eyre_ because the crazy first Mrs. Rochester killed herself (and in the process burned down most of the house, Thornfield Hall). In _Jane Eyre_, the first Mrs. Rochester is essentially a plot device. Her history is not given and she is never developed as a character. Indeed, the “mystery” elements of _Jane Eyre_ stem from not knowing who Mrs. Rochester is, what her condition is, or indeed even that she exists. _Wide Sargasso Sea_ tells the story of the first Mrs. Rochester. It takes a character who is two-dimentional and gives her a history and a context. It also makes the reader reconsider _Jane Eyre_, because once you consider Mrs. Rochester as a human being, Mr. Rochester’s behavior comes much less excusable and it is difficult to view him as the romantic hero. It’s a pretty good book. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/284 "2007-05-29T20:31:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve been in the hospitality trade since 1994. I’ve washed dishes under the shadow of Mount Cook at the Hermitage Hotel, surpervised banquets at the Auckland Park Regency and the Stamford Plaza, waited on tables at Fortuna Restaurant and the Airport Hotel, managed conference centres at Sky City and the New Zealand Parliament, co-ordinated events for Te Papa and my own catering company… All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [Time to die.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/quotes) Good post. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/285 "2007-05-31T06:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [Time to die.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/quotes) Good post. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] …Ha! You discovered my inspiration! 😉 Thanks for the comments… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383/286 "2007-05-31T13:04:32Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] In _Jane Eyre_, the first Mrs. Rochester is essentially a plot device. Her history is not given and she is never developed as a character [/QUOTE] Huh. Sounds a lot like Wicked or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-vco3-will-tamper-with-your-food/405383.md?page=14)