Not for Cats

I was talking to a girl who I seem to be entangled with last night and was a little disconcerted to find she fed her cat salmon.
First I just shook my head in stunned disbelief, but when it became clear that I was far from impressed she began to probe me as to my annoyment.
I explained to her that for a large section of this country- one of the richest in the world- salmon is considered a luxury. We won't even mention what people in Somalia would see it as. Bearing in mind that Whiskers, Kit eKat and people make perfectly good cat food, designed by cat experts for-er-cats. We don't have special human food designed scientists for humans (or if we do, we don't eat it), so the cat's got it good as it is. So it don't need no salmon.
Specially not when salmon is a luxury.

She still didn't see it. I, of course, have got a little irate, being up on my soapbox. Here goes;
'Have you ever heard of Nicolae Ceaucesceau? No?, well he was a Rumanian Dictator, on the other side of the Iron Curtain, killed in1989 when they overthrew the bugger. Christmas, and I can remember it, so surely you must. He was there over twenty years.
'Well this dude, he built the biggest palace ever built in the world [don't know if this is true], bigger then Versailles, this in a Marxist state, where appropriation by the oppressors is supposed to be a thing of the past. Anyway, him and his missus, they say, used to have five different meals cooked every night and have them brought in. They'd then choose one. Do you know who got the rest?
'The dogs. Their f***ing dogs. This in a country where the produce at the annual agriculture displays, to show off how great life in Soviet Rumania is, half of it is just painted wood, painted wood darling, because they ain't produced enough real food. That's how f***ed up it was, and while this is happening, Ilyena f***ing Ceaucesceau's dogs are eating enough food for four in the biggest palace in the world. Don't you think that's pretty messed up?'

She didn't get the parallel. Maybe there isn't one. Maybe I was just on my high horse again.

Let's just see if she buys salmon for the cat again...