Schwartzenegger Bans Foie Gras in California

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I don't know if that's an actual dish or just something from a PG Wodehouse novel, but it sounds like some form of insect smothered in crayfish sauce.

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Since this is a French dish, it's a safe bet that it's smothered in something.

They actually cook the outside pretty extensively and keep the inside mildly cooked.

It's pronounced more like "fwa gwa" than "fraw graw"

It's pronounced French. Say it like a French guy, you win.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I don't know if that's an actual dish or just something from a PG Wodehouse novel, but it sounds like some form of insect smothered in crayfish sauce.

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It's just something from a PG Wodehouse novel - I don't know what sylphides are.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Oh, by the way, Ive never heard of foie gras before this thread.

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I'm finding it incredibly crazy how many people didn't/don't know what foie gras is since they learned of this ban.

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Originally Posted by Mike

I'm finding it incredibly crazy how many people didn't/don't know what foie gras is since they learned of this ban.

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I grew up in semirural New Jersey, and I spent my first two years of college in Newark, NJ, before spending my final three in Los Angeles. Come on, its not that surprising that I havent heard of an elite French culinary dish.

more people need to watch the food channel

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Originally Posted by Mike

I'm finding it incredibly crazy how many people didn't/don't know what foie gras is since they learned of this ban.

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Well....then chalk up one more guy who didn't know the stuff existed until reading the Sound Off foie gras ban thread. We don't do much foie gras eating in Delaware.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

I grew up in semirural New Jersey, and I spent my first two years of college in Newark, NJ, before spending my final three in Los Angeles. Come on, its not that surprising that I havent heard of an elite French culinary dish.

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I'll be damned, I was a U of D guy too.

I didn't know how foie gras was made before reading this thread but I have tried it a few times before. It's good, but one time I had it at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse and it seemed a little too... fresh.

It sucks that this is how foie gras is made, but many other animals are mistreated just the same, it's just that foie gras doesn't affect as many people/companies as chicken would...