For the love of meat
January 18, 2008
If you haven’t been outside of your home since Christmas, you may not have realized that Valentine’s Day - the next Hallmark-sanctioned holiday - is only one month away. Egads! It’ll be here before you know it.
If you’re a woman who needs suggestions for your significant other, you may be glad to hear that our Assistant Business Editor has a lead on “the perfect gift for any man.”
In an email Ben Mook received from a PR rep for a popular Brazilian steakhouse on Pratt Street, Ben was assured that “Men everywhere will fall in love all over again when they are given an evening [here]… a place where they will be showered with 15 savory cuts of delicious meat, carved tableside by request with no limit to their hunger-driven desires.”
It may sound wacky, but it’s not as extravagant as the radio advertisement I heard earlier this week, which said that one dozen roses was no longer acceptable on Valentine’s Day — 50 is the new amount that symbolizes “eternal love.”
Have you heard any other business’s offbeat ad for V-Day?
JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor
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Such propaganda, and so sad that some people no doubt buy into it.
My husband has only bought me flowers three times in our about 23 years together. The first was when we were engaged and I had a miserable virus, and it was a pretty inexpensive assortment still in plastic from the grocery store. The second was 5 years later, when he learned I was pregnant, and the third was about 8 months later, when I gave birth to our child. In general, he doesn’t believe in buying flowers as “they only die” and I have to admit I think it’s sort of ironic to give something doomed to a quick death to symbolize “eternal love” (though I also enjoy getting flowers and thankfully, my husband isn’t jealous and had no problem with my getting three dozen as a 2007 New Year’s gift from a male friend (who trust me, is purely a friend, though he did ask if my husband would leave me to him in his will, as if that would even be possible).
So the question is, “What DOES symbolize eternal love?”
Off the top of my head, it’s all the *little* things….
Saying, “I love you” at the end of phone calls, no matter that we might speak on the phone several times on a particular day.
Taking one’s hand while walking or in a movie or driving in the car.
Not minding running out to the store for something on short notice.
Giving a relaxing massage.
Being game to try new things just because the other person is interested (I got into the Lady Terps BB games due to my husband wanting to go to them and figured I’d be bored no end, but have loved going to games).
Being a good listener.
Being respectful and respectable.
I could go on, but will leave it open to others to share their thoughts on this if they wish.
And I’ll try to keep my ear out for other V-Day ads. So far, the only one I can remember was a florist ad in 1993 and I only remember that one at all because it was the first time our son ever read the word “Happy” anywhere (he was 18 months old and I found it neat that his fourth word read was that word, a word he said most happily over and over as he pointed to it). Did this nice link to that ad make us buy flowers for Valentine’s Day? No.
Oh, but I did just think of another thing that can show eternal love - doing for the other as they would likely want done rather than what gives YOU pleasure. The first few years we were married, I would give my husband a Valentine’s card every day from Feb. 1 to Feb. 14 and my husband shared with me that he’d prefer just one card, so I stopped that “overkill” (though I confess I still sometimes give more than one card on the 14th as I often have a heck of a time trying to pick just one).