  "It should punch you round the face, with a little kiss
after", oh you reckon, Jamie Oliver?  (224 Posts) Katiekitty Thu
29-Nov-12 18:39:16   Jamie Oliver's BBQ sauce recipe.  Fuck off
Jamie.  LRDtheFeministDude Sun 02-Dec-12 11:46:49  I imagine
exhalting bollocks would be quite painful actually, kickass,
it's true.  Can I say something?  If he'd been talking about
someone's husband (or wife) who 'should' punch them then kiss
them, he would have been talking literally about domestic
violence. Advocating it, in fact (that is what the grammar is
doing in the sentence).  If he's talking about sauce, he's using
an image. It is not possible to take an image 'literally'. We
are all taking it metaphorically. Some of us are offended by the
metaphor and others are not. We all know it refers to the sauce,
and none of us think it refers literally to DV. However, there
is no way to interpret this phrase without understanding that,
as a metaphor, it refers to violence followed by 'a little
kiss'. This is an image that i