Foie Gras Lollipops

This delicious food certainly doesn’t deserve to be the brunt of political attacks from misinformed animal rights proponents, especially considering the number of untruths repeated about this technique. Foie gras is NOT the result of mistreating ducks or causing “disease” in ducks. Ducks are not human and their livers react to gorging on grain totally differently than humans would. In ducks, the result is a natural fattening of the liver that enables them to make long flights south in the fall without eating. Ducks had been fattening their own livers by overeating for millennia before the Romans noticed the phenomenon and imitated it with domesticated ducks so they could have fatty liver year ’round. Anyone who has ever bothered to visit a modern duck farm that specializes in foie gras has realized that the ducks are not mistreated and actually take to the overfeeding with no apparent discomfort or fear. The simple non-hysterical truth is that the ducks’ livers go back to normal size, with no discernible damage or disease, once the over-feeding stops. There are plenty of bad things going on in the world that we can be against. Fortunately, eating foie gras guilt-free isn’t one of them.

I just won a yearly tournament where a foie gras was the main dish. If you know how to work with this delicate liver, you never lose.

For those ?green, safe s.t, commi activists? who are voting for worldwide foie gras banning, I have only one thing to say: The technique of gavage dates as far back as 2500 BC, when the ancient Egyptians began keeping birds for food and deliberately fattened the birds through force-feeding. Lear from and trust the 4500 years of history. I do.

I don’t really like foie gras but I order it in restaurants because it makes people think I’m sophisticated. It makes me feel like I’m better than the person sitting at the next table who’s not ordering it. Foie gras is a pricy dish but not unaffordable so I can pretend to be rich. Honestly though, fatty liver is quite disgusting but I’d eat and do anything to make myself feel superior.

Ha ha to the previous reviewer; love your sarcasm, which is appropriate for such an insanely hedonistic dish such as this. Really, do we need to torture geese just so a bunch of rich schmucks can eat stuff like this? I would have been fine with just the truffles. “Behind the Bash” apparently means “No Morals.” And no, I’m not a vegetarian–it just makes me sick when people overindulge in this way, and cause unnecessary suffering (look up “foie gras” if you don’t know).