Wanna control pork spending? France, of all places, has the solution.
Although thanks to the slippery nature of interpreting cross-cultural idiom, they seem to have the premise a might confused…
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The bastards refuse to serve Jews kosher chicken soup prepared under strict hashgacha.
Wow, it’s great to hear that the French have a right left. Too bad it’s only the right to be racialist assholes.
Oh! Do I get to be the first to comment with:
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
I can’t say I fully understand the prohibition against pork among the Semitic peoples, but it’s still irrational and un-American. Bacon? Hello? Bacon and sausage and some tender pork chops are among life’s great culinary pleasures. People should stop thinking that other way and come over to the winning side.
Next thing you know, the forggies will ban the implantation of pig valves in diseased hearts.
ohhhh…you got a insta-launch
Bacon!
One ticket to quasi-proto-Hell, please.
You know, the only worthwhile things the French have ever done are make decent wine and sink the Rainbow Warrior.
Far right?
Soup?
SOUP NAZIS!!
..not to inject logic & reason here (HEaven forfend), but whaddabout the Muslims opening their *own* soup kitchens to take care of the needy?
Sort of like the Christians?
Can’t have a Soup Nazi without Soup Collaborationists. Ditch the pork and serve ‘em some Vichyssoise.
“Controlling pork” “Controlling spending”
Another couple meaningless phrases used by the far right for one purpose only:
stopping public spending for projects rightist ideologues don’t like.
The Congress isn’t paying attention so far as I can see. Can anyone name any program actually stopped by the Congress lately?
I didn’t think so.
Anyway, pork’s just fine with me. I personally want more federal dollars put into public infrastructure. Not to mention social services.
Even our current actor-guv agrees with me.
Anyone looked at his current bond proposals?
Carl
Maybe you ought to move to West VA—I hear Robert Byrd needs another assistant to find more empty lots to erect buildings with his name on ‘em.
The homeless guy in the picture even has a Hitler moustache. What’s up with these French nowadays? Or is that a De Gaulle moustache?
Wow, I’m actually really torn on this story. Pork soup is bound to be more nutritious than Vichyssoise, but I have no beef (pardon me for that) with religious dietary restrictions and no desire to see the poor forced to relinquish this part of their cultural heritage in order to benefit from charity. Hmm.
As for the motives of the soup-distributors, hmmm again. Far be it from me to want to chill the impulse to charity, and the fact that some people are being fed is great, but are pork scraps actually the least expensive nutritive thing out there (getting down to charity basics), or would a nice white bean soup with chicken broth and maybe some thyme fit the bill just as well? This is France – there’s more than one traditional soup, after all.
TW: To the extent that I understand this story, the only thing I’m confident of is that banning the soup will have no good effects.
There are no Homeless in France. They are able to exist only in capitalist societies. I do have some pride left, I’ll have you know, in America.
[Vichyssoise, eh? Excellent!]
them sumbiches beter leve my pork chop alone!
All the Conservatives say, “Viva La Penn”
Next thing you know, these totalitarian bastards will want to ban my favorite anti-subway-bombing device.
See, I’ve made it a habit of draping raw bacon all over myself wherever I go, so that any would-be bomber will instantly see that to detonate himself is to scatter the pork all over the place, including him, thus barring his entry into the Great Underage Whorehouse in the Sky.
It’s a little smelly, but highly effective.
I am thinking of opening a BBQ place and call it: Pork’s Pending.
Just thinkin’.
Vincent: “Bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.
Jules: “Yeah, well sewer rat may taste like muthafu*@#$in’ punkin’ pie, but I wouldn’t know as I wouldn’t taste the mother#$*&%$@r.”
DO NOT TOUCH OUR PORK SOUP !
You may have heard about the Identity Soups. These traditional pork soups are distributed in several towns in France and Belgium by Identity associations that are wishing to help their compatriots living in poverty.
These de Identity soups have been accused of racism because, since they contain pork, they would exclude Jews and Muslims. Still, pork meat is key to the traditional Gallic art of cooking (Read again the Asterix’ adventures !). It is also the cheapest meat and this is an important factor of choice for non-subsidised associations. And, last but not least, when Jewish or Muslim associations are helping their fellows from the same religion they choose to serve kosher or hallal soups and this does not shock us nor does it shock anybody else… Now, when Europeans are trying to help their fellow compatriots with pork, why should it then be considered as racism ?
January 14th 2006, following a request from the Mayor of Strasbourg (North East of France), the Prefect (representing the French State) has prohibited the distribution of the Identity Soup with the support of the police and has arrested the head of the association organising the soup, named Solidarité Alsacienne (Alsatian Solidarity).
IN FRANCE THE STATE PREVENTS
FRENCH PEOPLE TO HELP FRENCH AND EUROPEAN PEOPLE !
All European nations are concerned by this measure : if we do not react today, tomorrow they might prohibit the croissant as the racist symbol of the European victory against the Turkish Muslim army that was at the door of Vienna in 1683. Or, like a director of a British school did, they may prohibit to tell stories such as “The three little pigs†under the excuse that it could heart the sensitivity of Muslim kids. It is now that we shall react !
OUR ARMS ARE THE PHONE AND THE EMAILS !
If you want to protect French and European culinary traditions and especially the freedom of Europeans to live on their own soil according to their ancestral customs, phone, send a email and ask your friends to do the same to :
-the Prefect of Bas-Rhin, Jean-Paul FAUGERE :
– tel. (33) 03 88 21 67 68),
-the Mayor of Strasbourg, Fabienne KELLER :
– (tel. (33) 03.88.43.65.08)
-the Mayor’s « Premier Adjoint » Robert GROSSMANN
– (tel. (33) 03.88.43.65.03),
-the local newspaper: (tel. (33) 03.88.21.55.00),
-please copy us using the following address (this will be used to count the emails sent) :
This call is sent in more than fifteen European countries as well as in North and South America, Canada and Quebec. Our objective: that the Prefect, the Mayor and the local newspaper receive each 100.000 emails asking for freedom for Identity Soups. No insult, no threat, no attachment, just these few words as a title :
FREEDOM FOR OUR PORK SOUP !
LIBERTÉ POUR NOTRE SOUPE AU COCHON !
For any information on Identity Soups :
http://solidarite-alsacienne.hautetfort.com
http://www.soulidarieta.org
http://www.renaissancesociale.be