September 26, 2007
Mmm, Animal Liver Really Wets My Appetite
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Anyway, this -- well, among other reasons -- is why I have absolutely no desire to eat lobster. You know it's a lobster when you eat it. You know when you eat the... whatever part of a lobster you eat. (The claws? You don't eat the claws, do you?) And this is also why I have absolutely no desire to eat foie gras (foy GRASS). Mmm, goose/duck liver? Yum!
But that doesn't mean I want to cave in to the four people who don't want you to eat foy grass. Well, actually, I don't care; if restaurants don't want to serve it because of protesters, go ahead. And if they want to serve it, uh, that's okay too? Anyway, as part of a promotion, a group of local restaurants will be serving foy grass for just five dollars.
We do not believe that a minority of animal rights zealots should determine the direction of our business. Nor do we want to be intimidated by them at our restaurants or homes. We want the City Council to know that these few do not represent the whole of Philadelphia.
In the city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of American liberty, we want to keep the right to serve foie gras.
I believe that's in the Declaration of Independence: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to eat as much disgusting-sounding Duck Liver as they want.
Try foie gras for $5 [Foobooz]
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Posted by D-Mac on September 26, 2007 01:54 PM
Posted to Foie Gras
, Liberty
, Overstatements
, Protesters
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Comments
So would your appetite best be described as soggy or dry?
Posted by: Rob I. at September 26, 2007 03:36 PM
Personally, I believe that "I'm a picky eater" is a more humiliating pronouncement than "I skulk for sex in airport bathrooms."
Posted by: Double D at September 26, 2007 06:49 PM
What about "I'm a picky eater in airport bathrooms"?
Posted by: Anonymous at September 26, 2007 06:59 PM
No one has a "right to serve foie gras". And since when does the majority dictate what is moral? The right to kill, enslave or torture others is not something that can be decided by democratic or majority vote. Rights, cannot simply be voted away by the majority.
Posted by: Philos at September 26, 2007 08:19 PM
It's my constitutional right to eat tasty duck livers. You have to right to tell me otherwise.
Posted by: John at September 26, 2007 11:08 PM
did you mean "whet," or was that (additional) pun intentional?
Posted by: acm at September 27, 2007 03:16 PM
It was intentional, but now I've realized it doesn't make much sense (too much of a stretch) and it just looks like I don't know how to spell.
I don't, incidentally, but still.
Posted by: dmac at September 27, 2007 03:35 PM
That's not how you pronounce FWA GRAH, you dumbass!
Posted by: Anonymous at September 26, 2007 03:34 PM