My post of 2021/09/15 circled back to 2020/11/09, expectedly.
Like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig.
Marcus Aurelius, around 170 AD
More than anything we are maintaining a mortuary here at the fish counter keeping all our skinned dead friends looking glam for the customer. We retrieve their corpses from the back, and then begin coaxing some semblance of “fresh” or “life” out of them.
The Secret Life of Groceries, published in 2020