"When you eat it, it feels like dying, " touts one online retailer.

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Ms. TATIANA MALIEKA (Manager, Caulideir): If you have a food which you remember you eat when you were a child, it give you some feeling of closeness, of comfort.

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But when you're an Olympic athlete, you don't get to have your cake and eat it, too.

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When you do something for not a lot of money and it comes out really well and you can eat well, that makes life worth living.

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You can freeze them when you get them, and I eat frozen beef all the time, but if you plan to make it on arrival day, as I did, you simply cannot get it any fresher.

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When choosing your fish, let the fishmonger know you intend to eat it raw.

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When a shark wants to eat you, you'll know in advance: It will hunch its back, lower its fins, and rush at you in a zigzag.

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It takes something special to make an impression, especially when you eat out as much as I do.

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Unfortunately, most restaurant meals are forgettable or merely okay, and it takes something special to make an impression, especially when you eat out as much as I do.

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After that amount of time, when you leave --- whether it's to go get something to eat or whether its just to get where there's clean air -- it feels almost as though... well there are just sharp shooting pains.

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