When charity has to be oh-so Politically Correct


Trust the French police to make a oh-so serious joke

I had to laugh at this one. And that means I am breaking my self-imposed rule about quoting a source more than once in a single day.

It happened last month, in France, during the festive season. Cops closed down a soup kitchen because it served the wrong kind of soup. Right-wing soup. Disrespectful soup. What was the problem, exactly? Was it perhaps full of questionable ingredients like frog's legs and calf's brains and saliva-soaked Gauloise butts? Can't be — those things are delicacies in France. Did Tyler Durden piss in it, then? Surely not — the French would applaud him for such revolutionary performance art and insist on giving him a generous subsidy.

No, the problem was that the insolent potage du jour had (commence wringing hands) pork fat in it. So, even though the soup was offered to all comers, Jews and Muslims couldn't partake; their Holy Books tell them that eating even a teaspoonful of pig-derived nourishment is a smite-worthy abomination unto the Lord.

Such a fact is, of course, mirth-inducing on the face of it — as are so many irrational, random, but never-questioned decrees of organized religion. But rather than having a discreet laugh at the expense of the pork-abhorring faithful, the police (let's not call them pigs, shall we?) dutifully swung into action, putting an end to the distribution of the evil concoction and ordering the soup-kitchen volunteers to show up in court on charges of unlawful discrimination.

Worth your time just for the twist ending.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - January 4, 2007 at 05:31 AM  Tag


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