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Ubiquitin, this is what I mean that I don’t think he presented his point well. I don’t think he means what you think he does.
He isn’t saying, I hope, that one shouldn’t enjoy delicacies on Shabbos and Y”T. He wrote, “if the main reason you look forward to shabbos is that you get to stuff your face with stuffed chicken and meat, you should not be stuffing your face with stuffed chicken and meat”. Let’s take it literally, and illustrate. Someone is preparing for Shabbos and realizes that instead of looking forward to a day to connect with Hashem, or a day to connect with his family, he is looking to connect with his boich. He feels bad, and wants to move the focus towards what it should be, instead of to the gashmiyus. It might make sense for that person to have a simpler Shabbos to move him in the right direction, with the ultimate goal of having a Shabbos focused on ruchniyus, but merely enhanced by good food.
Is that a perversion of the Torah? I think not, but I read newbee’s words that way.