Mmmrky: Foie gras is delicious.

Mmm, especially on a toasted brioche with a little sour cherry jam.

/back to my Kraft dinner now

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Oh, wait, this is California, home of pointless regulations and bans. What was I thinking? Just order some from across the border in Nevada and you'll be all set.

The whole thing is probably a ploy by Vegas to get Californians to all those celebrity chef restaurants.

FTA:A line up of people streamed into an unmarked, dimly lighted storefront...

And I stopped reading there. Dimly lighted? Really?

dahmers love zombie: RoosterCogburn: Bought this stuff once from Publix. Freaking disgusting.

/CSB

You didn't buy actual goose foie gras. Publix sells several types of duck/pork pate and/or mousse. One of the brands (forgot the name) is pretty OK. The one with 1% truffles. Real honest-to-crap foie gras is way too expensive for Publix to carry.

To be fair, Publix foie gras comes from Floridian alcoholic chickens with cirrhosis, not genuine geese. They do what they can.

So are they going to ban veal, chicken, and every other food produced using methods that are unpleasant for the future meal?

/and foie gras is fantastic

cman: Liberals preaching about freedom then quietly removing said freedoms? Color me shocked.

/Semi-trollin'

Pretty much.

Screw you, California.

if it doesn't come in hamburger form then I don't care.

Never liked the stuff. Makes me think of liver-flavoured ice cream.

my god that sounds delicious

and it must be if they are outlawing it.

~land of the free~

/never heard of the stuff until right now

RoosterCogburn: Bought this stuff once from Publix. Freaking disgusting.

/CSB

LOL, funny. Thinking quality products come from supermarkets.

"Good for them," John L. Burton, the former state legislator who sponsored the bill, said when told about the dinner-as-political-protest. "If you give me the address of the restaurant, I'll be outside selling Lipitor so they don't all get heart attacks. This is like what they did before Prohibition: Everyone was giving away the booze. Whatever makes them happy."

And, Senator Numbnuts, how did that work out for your ideological predecessors?

"The idea of paying upwards of $100 to eat pieces of a diseased organ would be laughably funny to most people if it didn't involve cramming pipes down birds' throats and painfully force-feeding them."

I'm not aware of anyone literally choking the chicken to get a piece of your blue waffle, Lindsay Rajt, you disgusting fascist.

They are the 53%.

/sorry

Yeah - the ban worked so well in Chicago

/People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

class warfare!

If they were going to ban that stuff on me then I'd be enjoying it while I can.

I love it with a glass of orphan's tears.

That's disgusting.

"Foie gras is probably one of my favorite things in the world," said Alexandra Snukal, 30, who lives in Santa Monica.


...and in the other corner we have Alexandra Snukal, who shops for outfits for her fecally incontinent pug at Baby Gap, drives a dented 328i with the E-brake on (left lane doing 30, naturally), and thinks that the ideal gas law governs fiber intake on the South Beach diet that she perennially promises to start "next week".

"Soon their livers will be rich and succulent "

I recomment a nice Chianti

Of course this ban is going to pop up all over from time to time.

People who usually support the ban: animal rights groups.
People who also support the ban: anyone interested in broadening the market of foie gras.

Wurst idea ever.

What's California's unemployment rate again?

Gyrfalcon: Why bother banning something so horrible nobody wants to eat it except when it makes them look refined and elegant? Ew.

You're thinking about caviar.

Foie-gras is delicious. I like mine with toast and redcurrant jelly.

Hector Remarkable: I love it with a glass of orphan's tears.

Better with roasted orphan baby stuffed with exoctic herbs and spices.

I believe you can get this at Bohemian Grove or at Bilderberg group luncheons.

Foie-gras is illegal but not veal?

Stupid ban. Geese are assholes anyway.

Veal is mean though.

As a Frenchman, I was taught that, except for the people, the world is nothing but ingredients waiting to be made into delicious meals. Foie Gras is absolutely delicious, but i was under the impression that folks do not nail the goose feet to the floor like my grandfather did with his geese.

I'm eating foie gras on little crackers now so I'm getting a kick.

/pointless law is pointless
//bone marrow is also awesome
///foie gras on bone marrow on little crackers is awesomeness
/fark the crackers

Gothnet: Gyrfalcon: Why bother banning something so horrible nobody wants to eat it except when it makes them look refined and elegant? Ew.

You're thinking about caviar.

Foie-gras is delicious. I like mine with toast and redcurrant jelly.

Caviar is good too. There are lots of other fish eggs that aren't so expensive and also very tasty, however, so it's a waste of money.

/and don't get the johnny walker blue, stick with the black

sseye: "Soon their livers will be rich and succulent "

I recomment a nice Chianti

Don't forget the fava beans.


/Actually, foie gras goes superbly with a nice Sauternes or Barsac.

I love foie gras. It's my favorite food. And of course, it's for those very, very rare occasions. (IE Christmas. Drooling all year..)

sseye: Caviar is good too. There are lots of other fish eggs that aren't so expensive and also very tasty, however, so it's a waste of money.

/and don't get the johnny walker blue, stick with the black


Don't really like the texture of fish eggs, or the saltiness. I guess I'm willing to concede that others may enjoy it though.

And you're right on the JW. I bought a bottle of the blue once and it is not worth the money. Gold is very tasty though.

(Yes, I know, real whisky drinkers wouldn't touch blended whisky like JW, or something. But to be honest I like JW Gold or Black over most single malts I've tried)

Shame on you, Californians, for letting your government take away one of your most basics freedoms: that of choosing what to eat for your meals. You set a terrible precedent for the rest of the country.
Also, the comparison with the shark fin soup ban is ridiculous. The birds raised for Foie Gras are not endangered and are treated better than factory-farmed poultry.

mmmm... Liver and Fava beans.

Mugato: Hungry, Hungry Hipsters

Imaginary photoshop: replace the hungry, hungry hippos with 4 planking hipsters.