of all the things in the world that are going crazy right now, the fact that i live in a world where rattlesnake sausage is still a possiblity—not one i will personally enjoy in terms of eating it—comforts me on a very basic level:
http://www.hotdougs.com/specials.htm
come join us for lunch, Internet!
So the other shoe dropped on our good friend Hot Doug yesterday--the City of Chicago fined him $250 for defying their ban on foie gras (a word that, no matter how many times I type it, I can not spell). more info
He's getting a good deal of attention (and probably selling a bunch of tasty dogs to boot), but I thought it'd be nice to make a shirt to commemorate the prosecution of perhaps the nicest hot dog vendor on the planet and give any profits off it (about $2 a shirt) to Doug to give to a cause of his choosing.
Believe in people's ability to decide what they eat on their own? Buy one!
... and the law won.
Good friend and hot-dog wunderkind of Chicago, Doug Sohn, has just been served with the first official citation in the city for violating the foie gras ban.
He'd been warned previously--the sternly-worded letter was displayed proudly in a frame on his countertop right next to the Milwaukee Brewers racing sausage bobbleheads--but the cops showed up Friday morning to slap him with the citation, which can carry a fine of up to $500. They even sealed his foie gras as evidence!
out now