Singer Kanye West has announced he is bringing ten stores of the Fatburger chain to the Chicago area earlier this month. In the August 24th Chicago Tribune had Mark Jacob's History Lesson of Ten Things You Might Not Know About Meat.
He started off saying Chicago was once the "Hog Butcher of the World with its Union Stockyards complex. Then, in 2006, foie gras was banned until the mayor decreed that to be silly.
1. Roman emperor Elagabalus ordered 600 ostriches killed once for ostrich-brain pies. Who? What?
2. A 1655 book by English physician Thomas Muffet wanted animals tortured before slaughter to make the meat more tender. Someone call PETA.
3. Jesse James once refused to rob a bank in McKinney, Texas because he like a chili parlor in the same building.
4. On a 1965 space flight, John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich on board for Gus Grissom. I don't blame Gus at all.
5. In 1971, Tokyo got its first McDonald's. Den Fujita, a Japanese partner said, "The reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is that they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for 2,000 years. If we eat McDonald's hamburgers for 1,000 years, we will become taller, our skin will become white, and our hair will become blonde." Did he really say that? Not to mention huskier.
6. Chicago artist Dwight Kalb made a 180 pound statue of Madonna out of ham. Ham and Beans?
7. Turkeys have been bred for large breasts and as a result can't have sex and have to be artificially inseminated. Where's the fun in that?
8. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on why he became a vegetarian at age 60, "My intestines wrote me a letter."
9. There is NO CHICKEN in chicken fried steak. This is likely because the batter looks so much like that of fried chicken. I always wondered why they called it that?
10. In Francois Mitterand's dying days, he ate an illegal dish: the ortolan, an endangered bird.
Where Does This Guy Come Up With This Stuff. Mighty Interesting. Thanks Mark. --Old Coot
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