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zahavasdad “There is no such thing as a “Yetza Hora for exotic delacies” If its Kosher its Kosher and a Mitzvah to eat it”

Mesilas Yesharim Chapter 15

“When it becomes clear to a person that this good (i.e. exotic foods) is utterly fictitious and the evil inherent in it is real due to its base nature…”

“There is no pleasure more short-lived and perishable than that of eating. The food is only enjoyed in a persons mouth, and once it leaves the throat to descend into the intestines, its memory is lost and the food is forgotten, as if it had never existed.

Bread will satiate one to the same extent as the delicacy of fattened geese.

One will be made especially aware of the truth of what is being said if he considers the many sicknesses connected with eating or at least the heaviness that one experiences after meals and the vapors that becloud [variant: confound] his brain. These considerations would unquestionably cause one to spurn the pleasure of eating, showing its good to be not truly good and its evil to be truly evil….This is the intent of Solomon’s statement (Ecclesiastes 7:2), “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.”