HEY SAN FRANCISCO: Try These 10 Mouthwatering Foie Gras Dishes Before The Delicacy Is Banned Forever

[FarCenter]

California is in the final countdown until foie gras becomes illegal in the state. The ban officially starts July 1 at midnight, California time.

Chefs and restaurants around the state are planning some upscale farewell meals in honor of the occasion.

Foie gras, which is made from the liver of a specially fattened duck or goose, was banned by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004, with an eight-year grace period.

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Here are 10 places in San Francisco, the state's foodie capital, where you can still grab a bite. Check out the lists compiled by our friends at Eater and Zagat as well.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/foie-gras-specials-in-san-francisco-before-ban-2012-6?op=1

[GarroHorus]

1. Foie gras tastest INCREDIBLE

Never ate it again after I found out how they force feed the geese to over fatten their livers and the horrible lives those geese live until they're ready to harves the fatty liver.

[Major Nikon]

14. Here's the real story

They actually live a much better life than most livestock on large farms, and they actually line up for their 'torture' when it comes time for their feeding. It certainly is nothing like the process described by PETA and other animal rights zealots.

[GarroHorus]

15. Nice propaganda, too bad it is nothing but lies. n/t

[GarroHorus]

16. BTW, Anthony Bordain is a Libertarian Ron Paul supporter. n/t

[dionysus]

18. say it ain't so.. bordain is awesome...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. It's bullshit:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/1111/Anthony_Bourdain_Im_going_to_vote_for_Obama.html

[dionysus]

22. phew.. thanks!

[freshwest]

27. Aww. too bad.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. Figures. He has that smarmy John Stossel "what's the big deal" voice.

[freshwest]

26. You've been corrected. Still...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. Wow. That video was from the PRO Foie Gras side? I would hate to see the anti.

[Major Nikon]

23. Yep, it was almost unbearable to watch all those ducks who were clearly under no stress

Not to mention that several farms that produce foie gras provide tours so that anyone who wants to see the process for themselves can do so. How many other large scale livestock farming operations do that?

[tanyev]

2. Only 2 days left? Time to stick a funnel down your throat and eat as much as you can.

[freshwest]

28. Augh! You sick dog!

[11 Bravo]

3. I had it once. It may be the single best-tasting thing I've ever eaten.

Then I found out how it is created, and I have never touched it since.

[frazzled]

4. Eh, not forever

Recall that it was banned here in my town of Chicago by the City Council: a law that became a laughingstock and was ultimately rescinded two years later. No one really ate fois gras here much, but once the ban was put into place, every restaurant started serving it in protest. Not just the fancy places, but "Hot Doug's," even ... a creative hot dog place that created a fois-gras-dog. You know, fois-gras donuts, fois-gras pizzas, everything started popping up.

Since the ban was rescinded, everyone is back to not eating fois gras. Honestly, I should think California (like Chicago before it) has more important things to attend to than banning a food that almost no one ever eats anyway.

[Dr Fate]

5. Yup-Load up on these cancer enabling proteins while you can.

But seriously- we will still be able to get it, just like we can still get raw cheeses, pot and just about anything else without too much hassle.

"Off the menu" or behind the counter menu items are not uncommon here.

[hifiguy]

6. It is an astonishing delicacy.

Ate it once in France - seared with a port reduction. Food heaven, every bite of it. My very French host told me to take a small piece, place it on the tongue and then crush it against the roof of the mouth. Beyond delicious.

[Dr Fate]

7. I had an offal & onion stuffed sausage in Paris.

Served with mustard and potatoes...

It was offal. No-actually, it was great.

This was back when I was a fat-boy who ate that stuff all the time- now-a-days I try to keep rich foods down to a rare treat.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. I will pass...

It doesn't seem fair to try something, fall in love with it..and then KNOW you can never get it again.

[whathehell]

31. I had it once and honestly found it quite forgetable...

Not worth even a tweak of guilt.

[Bonobo]

34. Raw beef liver just became illegal in Japan. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

35. it is lucky for me...

that I don't eat beef, lamb or pork. I once worked in a Utah restaurant that served cow brains. They nearly made me gag.

[Marrah_G]

9. Gross

I wouldn't touch the stuff. I feel the same way about Veal.

[HopeHoops]

10. Both are tortured flesh.

[freshwest]

29. +1

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. I wrote a short story 25 years ago or so, "Dinner for Two at Chez Merde"...

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... where one of the awful items offered was foie gras. Funneled and treated like a muzzle-loading musket with
the use of a ramrod to deliver the food to the geese?
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I'm amazed that it hasn't been universally banned everywhere.
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No better than Michael Vick, IMO -- and I'm a hardcore carnivore.
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[Major Nikon]

13. Anthony Bourdain did a pretty interesting bit on the process

I'm not sure how anyone who has actually seen it happen can call it cruel. The animals line up for it.

The reason why Chicago overturned their ban was they finally decided to listen to veteranary experts on the subject rather than animal rights activists who weren't.

[flvegan]

12. The great taste of cruelty. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. This omnivore says Not. On. Your. Life.

That's from a Lover of Liver even.

[freshwest]

30. Good for you.

[XemaSab]

24. I think I still have a wonderbread-fattened goose liver in my freezer

[CreekDog]

25. It's not being banned, so obviously this is a good article

[Meiko]

32. I don't like liver

I don't care what kind it is or how it's grown, any organ meat for that matter. It's just nasty. If California wants to ban it who am I to say they can't. I am sure they will have a booming black market for the stuff before too long.

[Douglas Carpenter]

33. foie gras does taste fantastic. But maybe dolphin does too. I wouldn't know. So I suppose I can go

without it. I have been told years ago by someone observing the ducks at some farm in France that the poor ducks and geese vomit all over the place do look like they are being abused. Thus it might taste great. But it is not such a big sacrafice to go without it.