Mais Non! Le Foie Gras under seige in CA!!

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Discuss.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, this is good, if true. What is there to discuss?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno... the only thing worse than pretentious foodies is militant animal rights nutcases.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the only thing worse? You lack imagination.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And "pretentious foodies" as number 2 worst object is anyway shit. Explore more.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

What about dog-rapists, fanny?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The fucking National Express?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like French food much, but I like Eyeball Kicks less. California is probably somewhere in the middle. Foie gras certainly wins.

I wouldn't mind seeing more foie gras producers switch away from the speed-feeding method, though. It can be done; it's more expensive, but foie gras is overused as a go-to price plumper anyway, and if the price increases it'll help ensure people use it a little more thoughtfully.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

You're not entitled to take underwear/dildos into the changing room. I mean, GROW UP.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

what the hell are you on about?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, tep, tep. You were missed.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't mind seeing more foie gras producers switch away from the speed-feeding method, though.

That's great, but what would you mind?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My 12 year-old brother still believes in Santa

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, welcome back! I for one, will be sad, because I like foie gras and the aim seems to be to shut down the only producer in California.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Foie gras flap spreads

DAN PERRY WHERE ARE YOU.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 21 February 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Orbit :) I don't think I'm back permanently. I'm loitering.

I dig foie gras, but at least this bill would only ban speed-fed foie gras; restaurants that really want to offer it can import it from producers who use different methods. It would certainly crush Sonoma, though, unless it includes some provision to help them with the transitional costs of switching (which I assume it doesn't).

(By the way: you can buy foie gras on Amazon now! How cool is that? The shipping cost is pretty damn steep because it has to be next-day with ice -- but still, in theory it's great.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I for one am not over-fond of making matters of personal ethics into a matter of state law any more than is already the case. Whether or not the law would be in sync with my own beliefs.

― mouse, Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

oh do loiter, Tep--you and your culinary enthusiam are missed!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I for one have missed you. Incidentally, are you doing EdMo or are you gonna be too busy?

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 21 February 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, nanoedmo. I forgot about it. I'm going to have to pass this year. I'll hijack this post (not the thread, see, just the post, more foie gras madness will resume shortly) for a quick update (and I'm always around at http://doctorpepper.livejournal.com, although you need a livejournal account to read it and it's this whole big thing): right now I'm a bit on pins and needles waiting for the book to come out, at the end of the month; it'll be listed on Amazon, but I don't know if that'll be right away or not; at the moment, I'm writing the roleplaying game tie-in for the book, and hoping to have it out no later than the second week of March.

I'm not crazy about how my nanowrimo novel came out, it was too rushed, so the editing would do some good, but I suspect it'll have to wait. I'm starting to think towards my thesis, too, the preliminary topic for which is "the theologies of William Blake and Isaac Newton," which will sound snappier eventually.

I've got another novel going, which I'm pretty happy with, partly cause it's got ninjas.

And Matt, I read your blog, so I'm still, like, around in spirit, kinda!

Okay, back to liver.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not doing NaNoEdMo as such in that I'm not revising the novel from last November -- too close to it, if you will -- I'm just tackling the one from the previous November. Should be at 75,000 words by this time next week.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I will use this thread to annouce that the phrase "foie gras flaps" has now been indelibly etched into my personal lexicon.

That is all.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Indelibly etched, carefully tattooed or sweetly massaged?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You know I'm all about massaging the foie gras flaps!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard of 'food lovers' before...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If the animal rights activists really wanted to put a stop to foie gras sales, they'd air a commercial with Dan Perry talking about his love for it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hi, I'm Dan Perry and I'm not wearing any pants. Let me tell you about foie gras."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Now caress the foie gras lightly with your index finger. If you like, you can gently blow on it as well."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

See, you took a beautiful thing and made it gross.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office had no immediate comment on the bill Monday.

Hmmm, seems to be a common line in almost every California related article I've read the past few months.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, upthread was getting some hot and heavy foie gras action! that's what i call food appreciation. it made me want to melt tiny thin slivers of foie gras just enough to stick them to little toasts, and let them dance on my tongue with salmon roe. can someone draw that please?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

it looks like the salmon roe is about to dock with an Imperial Battle Cruiser

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe I managed to convey this so well.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

you are a master of your art.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ankimo (japanese monkfish liver) is a ethical substitute for foie gras.

here's a home recipe

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Think of the monkfish!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

they are ugly mofos.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/art2001/monkfish540.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Monkfish are overfished.

See the species guide at the Marine Conservation Society website.

Between this thread and the $3 a gallon gasoline thread, you Americans are not doing a very good job of winning the sympathy vote.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, i last ate this with 7 japanese people in osaka, mr. global awareness superhero.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=3220611

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

those things are repulsive they should be eaten into extinction

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, wtf? That had nothing to to with your suggestion - it was about the original moaning that foie gras was being banned. I'd rather people ate monkfish than foie gras.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(ie. my post was in two unrelated parts - sorry if that wasn't clear)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

my bad n., i just wanted to link that fortune.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow - I didn't even look at that link. I apologise again for my appalling Chinese English joke.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

(Haha I'd forgotten that EK is a fascist.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still loitering.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

keep up the good work.....

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sick with hearing the words of bliss
The love I endure is like a syphilis

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

cruelty to animals is against the law, so I don't see what the problem is with banning this method of feeding, which seems clearly inhumane. If you base your industry around an inhumane and cruel practice and the law turns against you, too bad. Try to overturn the law if it's so important to you to feed this way; we have a petition process in CA, see if the public agrees with you. If not, find some other way to make your money.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."

-- Lord Macauley

Substitute American for British and you can see what I think of this kill-joy, holier-than-thou, intolerance.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You think it's a ridiculous spectacle, don't you?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I do.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.3dglassesonline.com/indjo.gif

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what Michael should have done.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

How foie gras became the new fur.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Imagine a foie gras coat!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Well, the article does describe it as "velvety." I am tired of people describing food as "velvety." Imagine eating velvet.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Tripping the Velvet?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

The fake ad for Dan above still amuses me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

OH LOOK AT ALL THESE SILLY LIBERALS AND THEIR "IDEALS" SPOILING THE FUN FOR ALL THE REST OF US
I REALLY ACTUALLY PITY ANYONE WHO HASN'T BOUGHT INTO MACHO BULLYBOY CULTURE
JUST GO WITH IT
WHAT ARE YOU SOME KIND OF FAG
ONLY FAGS AND HIPPIES ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT STUFF
I CAN CALL THEM "FASCISTS" THO CUZ MY SHALLOW OPINIONS ARE WELL SUPPORTED BY THE MAJORITY HERE
WE AT ILX DON'T HATE FUN

― ILXBOT KNOW A LITTLE GERMAN, Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

hay d00dz what's going on in this thread?

― fcuss3n, Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

"FRANCE - F*CK YEAH!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

FOIE GRAS -- FUCK YEAH!
DECONSTRUCTION -- FUCK YEAH!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

so, is the 'ILXBOT' Marcello or NRQ?

― fcuss3n, Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Who cares, really?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

not me. i just think it's funny that people expect a non-south-park-style response to what passes for 'serious' discussion here

― fcuss3n, Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

"ILX - F*CK YEAH!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

It's TOMBOT, who is funny.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

no, it wasn't me. sorry.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070619/od_nm/foiegras_disease1_dc

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

In mice, at least...

― Michael White, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Chicago finally overturns its ban on foie gras

Chicagoans can feast on foie gras once more. The Chicago City Council just repealed the ban on its sale that it put in place two years ago.
Monica Davey, the Times’s Chicago bureau chief, says the ban has been a source of embarrassment for the city and the repeal comes as residents have accused officials of trying to micromanage people’s lives, with talk of prohibiting smoking even outside along the lakefront and eliminating transfats from restaurants.
No other American city has prohibited foie gras’ sale, but California has passed a law banning it as of 2012.
The Chicago council’s vote was 37-6, according to the Chicago Tribune’s Web site.
In bringing the measure to the floor, Mayor Richard M. Daley, never a supporter of the ban, ignored pleas from the ban’s sponsor, Alderman Joe Moore, who, The Tribune said, warned his colleagues that, “Tomorrow it could happen to you.”
What “it” was wasn’t clear.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2013/06/07/foie-gras-doughnuts-at-psycho-donuts-spark-death-threats-doughnut-shop-police-presence/

― Lectures of Pelé (Michael White), Friday, 7 June 2013 21:55 (twelve years ago)

"Because of the California law banning the sale of the duck liver product, the Foie Bombs are free at Psycho Donuts today."

This just cracks me up in a 'only in America' kind of way.

― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:37 (twelve years ago)

excuse me for not quite believing the word of somebody who names their place "psycho donuts" and serves foie gras donut holes as a publicity stunt.

― wk, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)

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