Are You in Favor of Foie Gras Doughnuts?
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2011/07/19 22:00:00
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People eat all kinds of decadent foods, like bacon double cheeseburgers smashed between glazed doughnuts.
And most of the time the only reason anyone gets mad about it is when those same uninsured gluttons end up in the emergency room with coronary disease and we all have to pick up the tab.
Enter Do or Dine's $11 foie gras-filled doughnut, which some customers described as "heaven."
But whisper the word foie gras to animal rights activists (for those not in the know it's rich, buttery duck or goose liver that has been created by force-feeding the animal) and they'll go berserk. The Brooklyn eatery is now on the receiving end of a petition drive started by a vegan blogger demanding it pull the stunt menu item.
"Birds should not have to suffer for donuts. Please remove this dish from the menu," reads the petition. The petition has 658 signatures so far, but Do or Dine chef Justin Warner told Gothamist that it's not going nowhere.
"People love this dish," he said. "They go crazy for it. But I'm lucky if I serve 30 doughnuts a week—we're not exactly cranking them out over here. People all over the world are signing this petition, condemning us, telling us we're monsters, but the one percent of people who are actually coming here and eating them are pretty jazzed."
Then again, he's not "so attached to anything on the menu," which changes weekly, so it could disappear at any point.
Doughnut lovers have launched their own petition, with supporters writing, "It would be cruel to stop making them several times a day before I have a chance to come and try them. They sound like the kind of thing I'd want to eat enough of that I'd be engorged to ten times my healthy size. But I'm willing to suffer for donuts."
Are you for or against the foie gras doughnuts?
And most of the time the only reason anyone gets mad about it is when those same uninsured gluttons end up in the emergency room with coronary disease and we all have to pick up the tab.
Enter Do or Dine's $11 foie gras-filled doughnut, which some customers described as "heaven."
But whisper the word foie gras to animal rights activists (for those not in the know it's rich, buttery duck or goose liver that has been created by force-feeding the animal) and they'll go berserk. The Brooklyn eatery is now on the receiving end of a petition drive started by a vegan blogger demanding it pull the stunt menu item.
"Birds should not have to suffer for donuts. Please remove this dish from the menu," reads the petition. The petition has 658 signatures so far, but Do or Dine chef Justin Warner told Gothamist that it's not going nowhere.
"People love this dish," he said. "They go crazy for it. But I'm lucky if I serve 30 doughnuts a week—we're not exactly cranking them out over here. People all over the world are signing this petition, condemning us, telling us we're monsters, but the one percent of people who are actually coming here and eating them are pretty jazzed."
Then again, he's not "so attached to anything on the menu," which changes weekly, so it could disappear at any point.
Doughnut lovers have launched their own petition, with supporters writing, "It would be cruel to stop making them several times a day before I have a chance to come and try them. They sound like the kind of thing I'd want to eat enough of that I'd be engorged to ten times my healthy size. But I'm willing to suffer for donuts."
Are you for or against the foie gras doughnuts?
Top Opinion
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Jana ♥ ♥ ♥ 2011/07/20 14:48:53I think the foie gras doughnuts are...
+7Never tasted them and never will,These people make me sick the way these animals are treated.I had never heard of this until today and have just read about it,they say the animals are not harmed I am sorry but from what I have seen I don't believe it.To force something down its throat just so its liver can get fat,poor animals.I wish people would get it through their thick heads that animals have feelings too.We all should be more considerate of the animals.
Besides I don't like liver, and I definitely don't think I'd like the taste of MEAT of ANY kind inside A DONUT. I like sweet and salty things, but geez, there's boundaries that SHOULDN'T be crossed!!
Aside from animal rights problems.
An animal would eat you in minutes if it thought it could take you down, and would care less if your family wanted to file a petition because it ate you. These PETA folks are just plain out crazy, I can understand protecting and trying to stop the killing of animals that are on the verge of extinction, but a duck....really? There like everywhere! There as common as pigeons and taste like chicken. The ones they use for this dish are domesticated like chickens and other live stock. Farmers over feed their live stock for the sole purpose of fating them up, the same applies to these ducks.
I guess the folks at PETA thinks man kind should return to hunter gathers and go out in the woods and hunt with bows and arrows. (I'm sure the food supply for the entire country can be sustained in that manner...maximum sarcasm) I myself would not care to eat a meat donut, now some duck soup or duck jerky, that's reasonable and it doesn't require that the ducks be force fed. That part there seems a bit unnecessary.
To PETA members: "They taste like chicken man, lets go smoke this grass and save the wales man....whoooo far out, so trippy man"