Thursday, February 22, 2007
Food & Drink / Food Chain When life gives you laws, make sausage
Posted by Mike Sula on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:47 AM
As Liz suggested, the most entertaining aspect of Chicago's Battle Foie Gras is the naked display of agenda among the politicians, activists, chefs, and publicists in the trenches. It's a grand drama in which even the most beloved players aren't above suspicion of crass opportunism or "sketchy ass"-ness.
Enter, stage northwest, Fred Markoff, owner of the Glenview specialty sausage stand with a familiarly punning eponymous name, fRedhots and Fries. Yesterday, four days after Hot Doug's was busted, the restaurant's publicist fired off a press release introducing a "Legal in the Suburbs Duck and Foie Gras Sausage ($8.50 including tax)" With duck liver sausage off the menu at Hot Doug's, and Doug himself on vacation until March 5, how will he survive the mass exodus of fickle customers to the suburbs?
Tune in tomorrow . . .
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Doug, if you're reading this, we will never abandon you, we will never leave, we will always love you. For you give us sausage and it is good. If the fine wasn't so small, I'd be the first contributor to a fine-paying effort. But then, I gave Doug a couple hundred in the last year or two. God Bless him.
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Don't y'all figure that he's been riding this all the way to the bank? Am I wrong? It's probably silly to get too complacent about any of this, but I figured that $500 fine was kinda like a badge of honor. Either way, I'm picturing him in France right now being awarded the DeGaulle medal and paraded around on peoples' shoulders or something. Well, it's France, maybe they're not caring, but I bet you anything it's a perfect antidote to all this. Will be interesting to see how things are when he's back!
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