{"id":2643,"date":"2008-05-27T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/05\/peaches-hot-dogs-and-bad-taste\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T13:11:00","slug":"peaches-hot-dogs-and-bad-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/05\/peaches-hot-dogs-and-bad-taste.html","title":{"rendered":"Peaches Hot Dogs and Bad Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Geesh, I\u2019m getting it in the ear for suggesting that the Gaffney Peach is \u2018bad taste\u2019. C\u2019mon, it is bad taste, just like the hot dog car and those those bottles of holy water from Lourdes shaped like the Blessed Mother with the crown that unscrews.<\/p>\n

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The question is not whether it is bad taste or not, but whether it matters, and whether bad taste is okay. Now I agree with Thomas Traherne who said something like, \u201cCan a man be just unless he loves all things according to their value.\u201d<\/div>\n
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This is a wise saying, and my second favorite quote after, \u201cA man is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies.\u201d<\/div>\n
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If we love all things according to their value, then we can cheerfully love the Gaffney Peach and all other bad taste artifacts. We just love them according to their value, that\u2019s all.<\/div>\n
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So what is the value of the Gaffney Peach? Well, it\u2019s a cheerful, happy bit of vulgarity. It\u2019s a great bit of public relations. It\u2019s a comical piece of Americana, a monument to a cash crop, a local identity and a fun artifact, and a testament to American chutzpah.<\/div>\n
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Does it compare, say, to the Statue of Liberty, Mt Rushmore or the Lincoln Memorial? Nah, \u00a0but it wasn\u2019t meant to. Does it compare to the Sistine Chapel, a Raphael Madonna or Rembrandt\u2019s head of Christ? Nah. It\u2019s the Gaffney Peach.<\/div>\n
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So if I say it\u2019s \u2018bad taste\u2019 that\u2019s all I mean. I really do like the Gaffney Peach. Honest!<\/div>\n
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The principle is a good one though, when extended. If we want to know how much to value a movie, a book, a work of art, decide it\u2019s intrinsic value and love it accordingly. Some stuff, therefore, we love simply as entertainment. That\u2019s okay. Some stuff we love because it is so sublime that it is almost sacramental in its power.<\/div>\n
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Other stuff we \u2018love\u2019 not at all. If it is trash or absolutely negative in its influence, like Sex in the City<\/span>, bikini mud wrestling, Stalin, or Taco Bell, well to love it according to its value is to hate it with a perfect hatred.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geesh, I\u2019m getting it in the ear for suggesting that the Gaffney Peach is \u2018bad taste\u2019. C\u2019mon, it is bad taste, just like the hot dog car and those those bottles of holy water from Lourdes shaped like the Blessed Mother with the crown that unscrews. The question is not whether it is bad taste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nPeaches Hot Dogs and Bad Taste<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Geesh, I'm getting it in the ear for suggesting that the Gaffney Peach is 'bad taste'. 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