Food News Round-Up: Chicago's Deep Dish in Deep Troubs

Food News Round-Up: Chicago's Deep Dish in Deep Troubs

Second City Blues: First of all, the Sears Tower (I'm not calling it the Willis) gets downgraded to second-tallest building in the U.S. behind New York's Freedom Tower, and now New York-based comedian Jon Stewart rails against the Chicago-style pizza (both deep dish and stuffed, I presume), calling it "tomato soup in a bread bowl." As a proud fan of both styles (stuffed, not deep-dish, when it comes to Chicago), and also as someone who likes to make both at home, I say it's apples and oranges. They're just curly wigs... different. In other words, please don't make me choose sides on this one.

Conspicuous Consumption: Taking the concepts of the Luther Burger and the Ramenburger to their obvious conclusion, a pair of adventurous eaters in Melbourne, Australia, scarf down the Douche Burger--wagyu beef, foie gras, and jalapeno, lime and mayonnaise sauces--and lament the downfall of man. Note that this $20 Australian Douche Burger is not the same as the $666 New York Douche Burger (foie gras-stuffed Kobe beef with champagne-steam-melted Gruyere topped with lobster, truffles, caviar and kopi luwak barbecue sauce), which was intentionally invented as a joke.

Counting Your Chickens ... That chicken you saw running across the street the other day was neither a grade-school joke come to life nor a flashback to Orange Is the New Black. It seems that all those hipster urban chicken keepers--remember that fad Natural stone? We even have a separate category tag for it--are abandoning their birds once they're past egg-laying age. That's just cracked.

Big Mac With a Side of Homophobia: Two Manhattan men are suing McDonald's, claiming that when they tried to order food at one New York franchise last year, the cashier refused to serve them, assuming they were gay and saying that homosexuality was "not what God wants." Then another employee allegedly handed the cashier a metal pipe and encouraged him to attack the men. To top things off, the cops that the would-be customers called ended up arresting them instead. The moral of the story? Bad things happen to you when you go to McDonald's.

Didn't We Just Talk About Drinking During Pregnancy? Yeah, we did. Turns out yet another study finds that eight out of 10 women drink while pregnant. This is, however, a study that was conducted in Australia, so insert your favorite Australian stereotype here. Bonus points if you tie it back to the Douche Burger from above panamanian foundation.