Posted on 08/14/2006 6:44:33 PM PDT by markomalley
CHICAGO - These are dangerous times for waterfowl in Chicago.
With the city’s ban on foie gras — a delicacy made of duck and goose liver — days away from going into effect, upscale restaurants in the city are serving it up like never before. They’ve put together special menus featuring it in course after course — searing it, chilling it, throwing it into salads and turning it into sauce.
At the same time, foie gras (pronounced fwah-GRAH) enthusiasts are cooking up a lawsuit to keep it on menus or put it back after the ban takes effect Aug. 22, holding fundraisers to finance their fight and asking diners to sign petitions in support of it.
And those diners? They’re savoring it a lot more — or at least more often — than they would have had the City Council not sided with animal rights activists in April by banning it. Many consider foie gras cruel because the geese and ducks are force-fed to make their livers bigger.
“There are other things I might have ordered, but I thought, I’m on the clock,” said Ben Goldhirsh, a mortgage banker who recently enjoyed the extensive “Foie Gras, Farewell To Our Good Friend” menu at the restaurant MK.
“I want to eat enough of it so when the ban comes I won’t care about it,” said Donna Shanley, a real estate broker who’s also stepped up consumption of what foodies refer to simply as “foie.”
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Perfect...
...thereby creating a foie gras black market.
Iranians looking to do something kooky, and the Chicago ban on foie gras.
Psst. Hey buddy. You want some foie gras?
If you know the password, there will be a few foie-easies around.
The citizens ought to be arming themselves with torches and pitchforks and on their way to visit the city council to demonstrate to them that it is none of their business what people eat.
Instead, we have this spectacle of gluttony in advance of prohibition.
Sad.
They can have my Braunswieger when they pry it from my cold dead hands!
irony on so many levels.
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