Kimmi Kappenberg headed to the Australian
outback knowing that the weight of the
vegetarian cause rested on her shoulders,
a cause she represented reasonably well
even while seeming rather unreasonable to
viewers and fellow tribe-members alike.
Not that anyone
faulted her for refusing to eat animal
brains, cripes we wouldn't have eaten it
either. But we also have to say that
bonding with the chickens being served for
dinner by giving them affectionate
nicknames was a little over the top,
particularly for those of us who grew up
on Colonel Sanders and have made Tyson a
corporate force to be reckoned with.
Our two most
prominent Survivor 2 memories of
Kimmi showed her both at her best: slurping down a
foot-long worm to win the very same
immunity challenge that she had nearly just lost with
the brains ~ and at her worst: whining
about the chickens ad infinitum, causing
increasing friction in camp until inciting
a shouting match that included the famous
finger-wagging incident with Alicia.
And yet, silly
& misguided as she may be, we
nevertheless take time to doff our cap to Survivor's
first avowed vegetarian fox.
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