Acid Reflux

[poliphilo]

I woke up choking. I don't think I was close to dying but for a moment it felt like I was. Acid reflux. And the moral of the story is don't eat curry.

Ailz and I had lunch yesterday at the Cafe Lahore, which is probably the best curry house this side of Manchester. Very nice. But the lesson needs to be learned- curries do me harm and if I want to live to be 80 I must LEAVE THEM ALONE.

I'm not going to pretend this is any great hardship. Curry is possibly my favourite food, but the truth of the matter is I don't like any food all that much. In spite of tuition by experts I find the whole business of eating a bore- and the restaurant experience is particularly boring because it takes a huge chunk out of the day which could be spent doing- oh, almost anything else. Restaurants make me edgy and anxious. I hate the waiting, I hate the fact that someone is suffering the indignity of serving me. I want to read a newspaper, I want to listen to the radio, I want to watch TV, I want to shovel the stuff in as quickly as possible and get on with my life.

Comments

are you better?

[mtl.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better, but I sorry that the experience of dining is not pleasant for you. I feel it should be a pleasure, not a fuel.

Ah well . . .

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Restaurants make me edgy and anxious. I hate the waiting, I hate the fact that someone is suffering the indignity of serving me.

Yes! I know!

I want to read a newspaper, I want to listen to the radio, I want to watch TV....

When we were children, we weren't allowed to read at the table. I actually managed (occasionally, and until caught) to set my book on the floor and turn the pages with my feet!

When I became a parent, I taught my children all the table manners they needed, then set them loose with books. We always read--all three of us--during every meal. I still associate a particularly exciting passage in The Gardens of Rama with baked potato and shredded cheese.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

My mum has often expressed the wish that she could take a pill at mealtimes and be provided with all the nourishment she needed without having to cook, or wash up, or chew. For me, OTOH, eating is one of the greatest pleasures in life and is to be savoured. But I'd like the pill once in a while, when I'm busy...

[archyena.livejournal.com]

I'm not terribly fond of waitstaff at restaurants either, I prefer to go to places that are smaller affairs where it is mostly self-service and waitstaff exists for their own convenience, to get you out of line so someone else can be processed.

[beentothemoon.livejournal.com]

You reminded me of the White Knight in the Alice books with your moral. I'm glad you're well. Is it just curry that you can't have? Can you meet them half way with Chicken Tiki Marsala or something inauthentic and anglo?


In an unrelated subject, do you have any books published? If so, I would like to read them.

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're alright...I agree with you, I feel kind of uncomfortable about the whole serving system. Even though it's a job, I feel that it's sort of condescending, asking a fellow human being to bring you some dinner rolls and condiments. Are you on any medicine for the acid reflux? I know they advertise a lot of medications for it on TV here in the States...