Monday, January 01, 2007

Calves Liver


Sure, I should have expected interesting things on the menu from a diner with offensive railings and exclusively illuminated by pink lights - but what's this?

Between the "ham with fruit sauce" and "salmon patties" we have: "sauteed milk fed calves liver". Now let me put aside their grammatical issue for a moment. I ask myself several things. What would a calf be eating other than milk? Does this mean all the other calves whose livers I have eaten may have been raised on a diet of cold pizza and fast food? Pondering oddness of this culture-shock moment was almost as amusing as earnestly trying to convince our friend at the table that some cruel non-free-range calf farms have bred long-haired cattle that they velcro to the walls for their entire life.


On second thought, maybe this is a subtle way of telling the consumer "you are guaranteed not to get Mad Cow Disease by eating this". Ah yes, that lovely scare we got because the brain matter of cows was being fed to other cows. As one comedian said "this is something we have to be told is a bad idea"?! Perhaps the menu should have more clearly stated "sauteed liver from a non-zombie cow". Interestingly they specify that the animal is young (calf), but do not nail down the species (is this whale liver?)...

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