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Apr 27, 2006 | 9:33 am

DataPlumber

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No More Foie Gras

I am sure most of the locals are aware of this already, but the City Council has decided to ban the serving of foie gras in the city's restaurants because the production was deemed inhumane. What's next a ban on beef, foul, pork, and veal? What is even more embarrassing is the new potential of places like Wheeling, Naperville, and Schaumburg becoming meccas of fine dinning

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...l=chi-news-hed

Apr 27, 2006 | 10:38 am

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I'm SSSOOOOOOOO glad that they chose this issue rather than tackle the gangs, guns, drugs etc etc etc.

Apr 27, 2006 | 10:54 am

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Twilight Descends Upon Chicago

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Originally Posted by DataPlumber

"Stuff sausages, not geese!" seems to be the message of the Chicago City Council, a quaint attitude in the city which wasn't it Carl Sandburg called the "Hog Butcher of the World", and Upton Sinclair revealed the "horrors" of all that slaughtering down at the Stockyards?

I'm sure Mayor Daley (the senior departed one of 1968 fame) is a'rolling in his crypt at the swinish level to which the local council persons have allowed themselves to descend. Mrs. O'Leary's famous cow obviously was a more positve contributor to local improvements than any of the current Council-nebbishes, "brats" without the "wurst", "furters" without "frank"ness, "kiel" with no "base" on which to stand.

Apr 28, 2006 | 8:01 am

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So much for Potter Palmer's vision of Chicago being the Paris on the prairie!

Apr 28, 2006 | 4:35 pm

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I'm SSSOOOOOOOO glad that they chose this issue rather than tackle the gangs, guns, drugs etc etc etc.

Don't forget the taxes and corruption. Buncha mopes.

Are ANY of the aldermen totally squeaky clean? I'd bet not.

Apr 30, 2006 | 4:21 pm

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TMOliver, I read your name as "TMO Liver" given the context

Note that the ban is on sale, not possession, so I suppose that sly restauranteurs could still "give it away" as an amuse-bouche. Not that CPD even knows how to enforce half the laws on the books, anyways; I still see plenty of drivers talking on phones.
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