Critic Will Not Eat This Book, as Promised

Critic John Sutherland said that he'd eat his copy of Salman Rushdie's Enchantress of Florence if it didn't win the Man Booker Prize. "I'll curry my proof copy and eat it," he wrote in the Financial Times. Well, it didn't even make the prize's shortlist. Will he indeed eat the curried book? Hell, no, he says: "So there." Coward! He's no Warner Herzog, the film director who ate his shoe after losing a bet to Erol Morris, saying Morris would never complete Gates of Heaven. (If you're clamoring to see someone eat something inappropriate, click through.)The fun with Herzog's shoe begins at about two minutes.