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Friday, March 04, 2005

Manna and Maggots

Spotted this at the carpark, on the side of a van:

"Manna Pot Food Catering Service"

Now I will never call my catering service Manna Pot. You say "manna" and I think, okay the honey flakes in the desert, and when you say "pot" I immediately think of what the early Israelites said (it is afterall the same context as manna), "Did you bring us out to die in the desert? Have we not graves enough in Egypt? (what a brilliant line) In Egypt we sat around pots of flesh and ate all we wanted... etc."

In that passage, pot does not have good connotations. And besides, it's an oxymoron! Pot implies plenty, tasty meat; manna is only a day's supply of flake-like bread. And don't even think of collecting an entire potful of manna. It'll be full of maggots in the morning.

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