Mayor Daley calls it “the silliest law that they’ve ever passed.” A new ordinance threatening $500 fines for restaurants serving pate de foie gras in Chicago went into effect today. Geese got feelings, too, y’ know.
“Why would they pick this and not anything else?” Daley asked. “How about veal? How about chicken? How about steak? Beef? How about fish?”
If a foie gras ban is OK, Daley said, “all of a sudden, you can question any type, basically, anything that can be served in a restaurant. The poor snails and the mussels and the shrimp. I could go on and on. The lobsters.”
In true Chicago fashion, the first day of the ban, pate is now being defiantly served on everything from haute cuisine to hot dogs and pizza.
(HT: John Calvin Young)
