The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

"Anthony" > wrote

> The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
> Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
> foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
> weeks ago. Delicious!

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

nancy

In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

>
> "Anthony" > wrote
>
> > The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
> > Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
> > foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
> > weeks ago. Delicious!
>
> I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
> happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
> What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
> NJ lawmakers?

I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
stuck there. Because he was worried about security. Funny how people
worry about a Cessna that can do very little damage, but keep O'Hare
open.

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"Anthony" > wrote in message
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> The Chicago city council has banned foie gras
> in city eateries. As Mayor Daly says, they need
> to get a sense of priorities! I don't get foie gras
> very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a
> couple of weeks ago. Delicious!

Huh. Bet Charlie Trotter's gonna be ****ed.
-j

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Anthony" > wrote
>
> > The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
> > Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
> > foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
> > weeks ago. Delicious!


Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.

http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/fac...foie_gras.html

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
every "delicious" bite?

>
> I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
> happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
> What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
> NJ lawmakers?

You should watch the movies too. By buying foie gras, you are in
effect torturing those geese. Too squeamish? I'm no raving animal
rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
the line of human decency.
>
> nancy

--Bryan

Food Snob wrote:

>
> Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
> every "delicious" bite?
>
> >
Nope, it was duck foie gras. If you want to be educated on the subject
I recommend the book Foie Gras - A Passion by Michael Ginor. And if
you really care about the suffering inflicted on animals in order to
feed humans I recommend Fast Food Nation.

Food Snob a écrit :

> Nancy Young wrote:
> > "Anthony" > wrote
> >
> > > The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
> > > Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
> > > foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
> > > weeks ago. Delicious!
>
> Have you ever seen how it is acquired?
>
> http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

To balance your bias, let us consider the opposite view:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

Read from "Méthode de fabrication" down.

If you are opposed to cruelty to meat bearing animals, you should
concentrate on the lives of chickens. Geese have it good by
comparison.

"Food Snob" > wrote

> Have you ever seen how it is acquired?
>
> http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php
>
> Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.
>
> http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/fac...foie_gras.html
>
> Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
> every "delicious" bite?

I've seen all about it. Not in person, of course. I don't delude
myself that any meat I eat had an easy life or death. Having said
that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

nancy

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:33:35 -0700, Anthony wrote:

> The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
> Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities!


stupid. The government can't even run the government..one contradiction
humping another.

Anthony wrote:
> > >
> Nope, it was duck foie gras. If you want to be educated on the subject
> I recommend the book Foie Gras - A Passion by Michael Ginor. And if
> you really care about the suffering inflicted on animals in order to
> feed humans I recommend Fast Food Nation.

Interesting piece about foie gras he

http://www.jeremyjosephs.com/foiegras.htm

Ranee Mueller wrote:
> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>> "Anthony" > wrote
>>
>>> The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
>>> Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
>>> foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
>>> weeks ago. Delicious!
>> I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
>> happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
>> What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
>> NJ lawmakers?
>
> I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
> the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
> anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
> stuck there. Because he was worried about security. Funny how people
> worry about a Cessna that can do very little damage, but keep O'Hare
> open.
>

That's another reason they call hizoner, "Richard Daly da Turd"

Best regards,
Bob

Oy! I go to start wearing glasses when i read, i read 'chicago bean foie
gras" and thought oh, a bean loaf recipe, i always like those.
---
JL


Nancy Young wrote:
> "Anthony" > wrote
>
>
>>The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
>>Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
>>foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
>>weeks ago. Delicious!
>
>
> I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
> happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
> What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
> NJ lawmakers?
>
> nancy
>
>

The Chicago city council are a bunch of ridiculous nannies.

That's another reason never to live there.

--Blair

Food Snob wrote:
> Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

My goodness, they actually KILL a goose!

> http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php
>
> Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.

"Force feeding" isn't necessarily "torture". If you don't distend the
stomach beyond its limits, the bird will barely feel it. And if you
do, you're causing lossage of your product. So you don't.

> http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/fac...foie_gras.html

What do I care if a duck's gets stretch-marks on its neck in the week
before I chop its head off and eat its guts?

> Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
> every "delicious" bite?

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how easily you're entrained by
the hyperbolic rhetoric of people who think that eating any animals is
cruel?

> You should watch the movies too. By buying foie gras, you are in
> effect torturing those geese.

We've established that it isn't "torture".

> Too squeamish? I'm no raving animal
> rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
> the line of human decency.

Foie Gras isn't it.

--Blair

Nancy Young wrote:
> Having said
> that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
> on my account.

Liver!

Foie gras isn't liver!

It's sliced, seared fantasticness.

--Blair

"Blair P. Houghton" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>> Having said
>> that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
>> on my account.
>
> Liver!
>
> Foie gras isn't liver!
>
> It's sliced, seared fantasticness.

(blushing) I'm embarrassed I didn't know that.

nancy

I can see it now.

Shifty men and slutty women walking down to unmarked basement doors on
side streets, knocking in odd patterns, answering through the
peep-hole, "Goose Gossage sent me," then disappearing from view.

Gangs of chefs with violin cases, leaning out of speeding convertibles
to protect their territory from encroachment by rival gangs.

Firebombings at restaurant-supply stores.

Pretty soon, the DA spends all his time trying to root out corruption
in the Food and Beverage Control Board, and the President has to
threaten to send in agents from Fish and Wildlife to restore order...

It's all clear to me now. The Mayor wants Chicago to get its image
back, and an untenable prohibition is exactly the social stressor
needed...

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> The Chicago city council are a bunch of ridiculous nannies.
>
> That's another reason never to live there.
>
> --Blair

Actually it's rather a shame. One of my daughters did her masters at
the Art Institute there, so her mother and I made several visits: it's
a great town with some excellent restaurants, we ate at Charlie
Trotters, Everest, Spiaggia (sp?) and many others. The Ritz-Carlton
does the best brealfast. And now those clowns get ink for banning foie
gras!

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>
> It's all clear to me now. The Mayor wants Chicago to get its image
> back, and an untenable prohibition is exactly the social stressor
> needed...
>
Prohibition may be the key word. Chicago was probably at its most
famous during the Prohibition era. Maybe that's what they are trying
to bring back.

If the Chicago City Council really wanted to help, they'd ban high
fructose corn syrup. -aem

"Anthony" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> The Chicago city council are a bunch of ridiculous nannies.
>>
>> That's another reason never to live there.
>>
>> --Blair
>
> Actually it's rather a shame. One of my daughters did her masters at
> the Art Institute there, so her mother and I made several visits: it's
> a great town with some excellent restaurants, we ate at Charlie
> Trotters, Everest, Spiaggia (sp?) and many others. The Ritz-Carlton
> does the best brealfast. And now those clowns get ink for banning foie
> gras!
>

Soy ink? Squid ink?
Dee Dee musing.....

Dee Randall wrote:

> Soy ink? Squid ink?
> Dee Dee musing.....

On the off-chance that you're not just toying with me, let me explain
that ink means publicity, welcome or otherwise.

"jacqui{JB}" > wrote:

>"Anthony" > wrote in message
roups.com...
>
>> The Chicago city council has banned foie gras
>> in city eateries. As Mayor Daly says, they need
>> to get a sense of priorities! I don't get foie gras
>> very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a
>> couple of weeks ago. Delicious!
>
>Huh. Bet Charlie Trotter's gonna be ****ed.

I could be mistaken, but I believe I read that CT is one of the
assholes that actually supports the ban. Moron. Whenever my wife or I
have an unusually bad day we head over to the one and only local fine
dining establishment that keeps a seared foie gras appetizer on the
daily menu and cheer ourselves up.

Jack

"Anthony" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> Dee Randall wrote:
>
>> Soy ink? Squid ink?
>> Dee Dee musing.....
>
> On the off-chance that you're not just toying with me, let me explain
> that ink means publicity, welcome or otherwise.
>
Yes, I admit, this being a cooking group, my mind rushed to judgment and
conjured up soy and squid. But yes, I was having a little fun - but not
trying to have it, I might add, at your expense nor mine. <grin>
Dee Dee

In article . com>,
says...
> Subject: Chicago bans foie gras
> From: aem >
> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
>
>
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> >
> > It's all clear to me now. The Mayor wants Chicago to get its image
> > back, and an untenable prohibition is exactly the social stressor
> > needed...
> >
> Prohibition may be the key word. Chicago was probably at its most
> famous during the Prohibition era. Maybe that's what they are trying
> to bring back.
>

I can just see it: Al Capon and the foi gras runners fighting it out with the
peta cops; garnished with vintage Citroens and tommy guns. Yay!

-Peter


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In article .com>,
"Food Snob" > wrote:



> rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
> the line of human decency.

I certainly agree. They are actually sometimes *killing* these animals!

So, next time you go to a restaurant and order some dead meat, they
should just refuse, and instead, bring you a plate with a live animal
tied to it, and you can eat it that way instead. That way it isn't
inhumane.

ObConfused: How come people don't want animals killed but they still
eat dead animal meat? Where do they think it comes from?

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA

Peter Huebner > wrote:

> I can just see it: Al Capon and the foi gras runners
~~~~~

HAhahahaha. Good one.

Steve

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:20:48 -0700, Ranee Mueller
> wrote:

>In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Anthony" > wrote
>>
>> > The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
>> > Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
>> > foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
>> > weeks ago. Delicious!
>>
>> I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
>> happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
>> What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
>> NJ lawmakers?
>
> I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
>the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
>anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
>stuck there. Because he was worried about security.
Not quite. Security was the reason he used. but he has been trying toi
get it shut down for a long time.

Of course one of his crowning achievements was getting Boeing to move
there headquarters here. One of their reasons was because that airport
made it easy for executives to commute on weekends to places like
Michigan.

I'm sure the next business thinking to relocate to Chicago is going to
believe everything he says.

--------------------------------------------------
Thaddeus L. Olczyk, PhD
Think twice, code once.

In article >,
Thaddeus L Olczyk > wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:20:48 -0700, Ranee Mueller
> > wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
> >the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
> >anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
> >stuck there. Because he was worried about security.
> Not quite. Security was the reason he used. but he has been trying toi
> get it shut down for a long time.

Well, yes. You don't decide to bulldoze a runway in the middle of
the night in a day or two.

> Of course one of his crowning achievements was getting Boeing to move
> there headquarters here. One of their reasons was because that airport
> made it easy for executives to commute on weekends to places like
> Michigan.
>
> I'm sure the next business thinking to relocate to Chicago is going to
> believe everything he says.

He's just following in his father's footsteps, as I understand it.
It's not as though Chicago politics are thought of with great honor,
they've been dirty for a long time.

Regards,
Ranee

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