Digger the carnivore

The Digger was still very much in his pre-vegetable-eating phase when he arrived in New York in the late '80s. One of his first moves was to find a sandwich place to his liking. I watched wide-eyed as he bit with gusto into a thick pile of rare beef, grinning with delight and emitting appreciative noises like "Mmmmmmh!". The two thin slices of white bread were there just to hold it all together, and the gobs of ketchup were the closest he got to vegetable content or "healthful eating". ■