Posted on 03/31/2009 4:27:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jean Poholsky looks forward to dining at Iron Bridge Wine Co. for the upscale ambience as well as for the food.
So when she arrived at the Columbia restaurant for lunch with friends Monday, she was shocked to see glass shards covering a stone walkway that had been spray-painted in red with the words "Get rid of the foie gras."
An admitted lover of the French delicacy made from the livers of ducks and geese, Poholsky concurred with the restaurant's owners that whoever was responsible for the overnight vandalism could have expressed their opinion differently.
"It is like saying, 'It's OK for me to break the law, but it's not OK for you to have foie gras,'" the Columbia resident said as she finished her salad. "I can't come to terms with that."
Related links Vandals protest use of foie gras Photos Dining@Large: Vandals hit Iron Bridge Wine Co. Explore Howard Co.: Vandals oppose foie gras Approximate location of Iron Bridge Wine Company Map Owners Steve and Rob Wecker, whose 80-seat roadside restaurant has been named by Baltimore magazine as among the area's best five times in the six years since it opened, were also struggling to grasp why someone would cause such damage, estimated at $3,300. It went beyond the cost of replacing four shattered windows, sandblasting away the graffiti and switching out the front door locks that were ruined by glue.
They were bothered by the apparent degree of anger expressed.
"It's a shame that thousands of people die of cancer and heart attacks and somebody goes after something that is this small," Rob Wecker said as he stood outside the restaurant, just off Route 108, surveying the damage. .
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Either Peta or some other animal rights group did the damage.
"We're going to have more foie gras," Rob Wecker said. "We're thinking about doing a Foie Gras Night, a progressive foie gras dinner for charity in response."
Whoop, wrong group. It was those ever so tolerant, gentle, “peace loving” hard left wing “liberal” fascists that did this. Anything they don't like, they show up in the middle of the night to smash and break things.
Fois gras with a nice glass of a good Sauternes, yum.
I hate people who torture animals. I pray that God will put an end to the evil people that hurt animals.
How is it these fools can vandalize with impunity? I could care less what they think of geese and foie gras. Why are they so damned important that they have the right to terrorize people?
Stay off de grass?
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