It is possible to hate-eat something, just like you can hate-watch something on television when you feel so upset (for reasons which might be unrelated to the TV show itself) that you want to get it over with at the same time that you’re enjoying it. I had no complaints about our food, and the chicken breasts and corn made it feel like Iowa, it was only that I wasn’t in any condition to think about eating.
(Photo: Pumpkin festival, Western Massachusetts.)