NEWS: Scott Ian's Food Coma: Demonic Being

CULTURE: Scott Ian's Food Coma: Demonic Being

While researching this latest installment of Food Coma I came across this quote from Sri Sathya Sai Baba the highly revered Indian spiritual leader.

“One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being. Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.”
-- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

I really don’t know anything about the esteemed Sri Sathya Sai Baba (from here on out to be known as Triple S B or 3SB, wassup my brotha!?) other than that he is a peaceful man and he espouses love and unity and morality and that people should lead more purposeful lives. Very nice.

He’s obviously never been to France.

Or the Chicago Chophouse.

Demonic being? Selfish? Dem’s fightin’ woids.

I’ve been called a demonic being before for many reasons but for living a normal life of sex, drugs and meat? Who does this prick think he is? Like a steak and a glass of red wine is the bane of humanity. You know what’s worse for humanity? How about a hole in the ozone from the methane gas from all those delicious cows walking around India taking dumps wherever they please. I’ve got a solution for that, send them all to Ted Nugent’s house.

Mmmmmm, sacred NY Strip.

And I really take umbrage with the idea that eating meat makes you selfish and that you have no feelings or consideration for others. Who bought dinner the other night Triple S? Oh right, no pockets in your lungi.

But what if the Sai Baba is right? What if all of us who eat of the flesh, imbibe from the grape (or corn or mash or potato or wherever your poison come from) and seek carnal knowledge are demons?

It sure seemed like a hell on earth when my mom used to make my brother and I eat liver when we were kids. The kitchen my mom’s own private Abu Ghraib and my brother and I it’s only prisoners forced to clean our plates of that vile greasy offal yet now I love Haggis.

The hangover I had the other day after too many bottles of Leroy Meursault at Gordon Ramsay definitely had a demonic quality to it yet I’d do it all over again even knowing the Hellish outcome.

And sex can kill you but when did that actually stop anyone?

It’s all starting to make sense.

Get Yusuf Islam on the phone ‘cause we’re gonna ride that Peace Train right up Triple S B’s cow-lovin’ ass. Better to eat, drink and fuck in Hell than be a sober vegan virgin in Heaven. Thanks Triple S for helping me accept who I am and helping me to love myself. I’m a selfish Demon and I hate you all! Who’s in for dinner at Peter Luger? First round on me.



Scott Ian plays guitar for revolutionary metal band Anthrax and also for Pearl.

Artwork credit: Shepard Fairey

Ha,ha,ha,ha.
Why are you so mad at this cow guy ? \

Amen to that! Or hail satan to that if all meat eaters are really the scum of the earth; but after all in a world that everybody can agree is going downhill fast, it's hard to believe that the great danger for our immortal soul (or our very own survival here) is a nice piece of steak with a glass of fine red wine.

Life is too short and after life is uncertain, so we'd better enjoy responsively the pleasures we can taste. And good food is near the top of that list of earthly delights!

Don't worry. A $50,000 donation and a month at one of Sai Baba's retreats will purge the demonic aspect from your soul.

In my opinion, you should indeed be very skeptical of any life advice offered by a person who wears his hair like this:



Amen, Scott.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the guy who was given the gift to manifest ash. It's like Yuri Geller's claim that his power to bend spoons comes from a higher power, these people are cheap magicians.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba convinced people he was the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, who is an Indian saint. I have yet to see Sri Sathya Sai Baba be anywhere as holy as the Sai Baba he claims to be the reincarnation of.

As for revered spiritual leader, I asked about this on my last trips to India, he is said to be a Hindu ascetic, still it is commonly accepted that his practices are more like Jim Jones than Godman. He isn't holy, he just acts holier than thou.

D.

So uhm... does this mean you enjoy the New York strips at Peter Luger's?
And is that Peter Luger steak sauce recommended?

Is it better then A1? Or Worcestershire?

Hell, I work in a kitchen, and we all accept we're going straight to hell.

Not demonic, but getting most of your caloric intake from sources high on the food chain is probably on the continuum of activities that do more harm than good.

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/reports/beyond.html
The major source of the study, who argue that first world meat consumption contributes to third world poverty and hunger. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/about/programs

Now, most enjoyable arenas of human endeavor (including the electricity costs of using my computer to post this message and check out attractive naked women) have an environmental cost to them which places them somewhere on a continuum of selfishness - you have to weigh the good and the bad of all things, and knowing a single factoid about a person is not enough to judge them selfish or demonic. But it's not completely beyond the pale to try to ask people to look at heretofore unseen costs of their actions, and since the guy speaks in sound bytes and parables you can't really expect him to go into nuance.

This makes me think there needs to be a superhero whose demonic powers are activated by steak.

Demonic Being sounds a lot cooler to me than "Chubby guy who keep hovering over the grill". I'm down with it.

I'll buy dinner at Peter Lugar if you get the tab at MASA...capiche?..

If being a booze swilling, meat eating demon is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

He kind of looks like the love child of Simmons and Andre the Giant.

ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE !

The steak sauce is pretty good ,( but yer not
suppossed to put in on the dry-aged Nirvana they sell...it's for the tomato and onion salad.)

Andre yelled at me when I asked him for an autograph. He was filming Princess Bride in Sheffield and Anthrax was in the same hotel as the cast. He wouldn't sign or take pics and when I asked again he yelled. That was better than an autograph!!!

Fuck it, I bet hell has better restaurants anyways...

My name is Andre Roussimoff, you asked for my autograph, prepare to die!!!

Embracing your inner demon sure is fun.