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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Seares: Filet mignon and sandwich
By Cheking Seares
News(boy) Sense
When Talisay City first publicly raised its claim over some 50 has. of SRP land, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña raged, "Why, that portion is the filet mignon!" Or so Talisay City Attorney Aurora Econg quoted him.
The SRP has incomplete infrastructure. Vertical development still has to start.
If filet mignon is what blooming-copy-editor-turned budding-chef Pubs Briones will say it is -- "a thick, round cut of lean beef broiled, often with a bacon strip wrapped around it" -- then the Talisay-claimed part, or even the entire SRP, is no filet mignon.
It can be filet mignon, metaphorically. The Talisay portion may be prime beef but, surely, it is no filet mignon, not yet anyway.
Sandwich
Then Mayor Tomas referred to the idea of collecting realty taxes in the "Talisay area" as "like eating a sandwich with really nothing in it." Neither Cebu City nor Talisay can get revenues in a free economic zone, he said.
Now, I don't need a chef to tell me that a sandwich can be a single slice or two or more slices of bread with filling of meat or gravy. No meat or gravy, no sandwich, you only have bread slices.
Tomas, we hear, loves food and loves to cook. His girth can be ample evidence of that.
What must confound the public is that even his use of food terms, like the use of his arguments in the SRP debate, can be confusing.
Is the mayor being imprecise or just crafty?
(May 11, 2005 issue)
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