The Wall Street Journal Makes Fun of Chicago

The Wall Street Journal makes fun of Chicago:

Chicago must be as carnivorous as any city in the modern world, and Chicagoans tend to show it. "Beefy" would not be a misapplied single-word description for many who live here. It's OK. If a man is 30, 40, even 50 pounds overweight in Chicago they don't, as one gets the feeling they would like to do in San Francisco or Los Angeles, take out deportation papers on him.

Hog butcher to the world, Carl Sandburg called Chicago, back in the days when it was famous for its stockyards. The stockyards are long gone; but Chicago remains famous for purveying, and consuming, hot dogs, Polish sausage, Italian beef, deep-dish pizza with lots of pepperoni. I bring up Chicago's very meaty past because it, of all places, is now the scene of the first legislation against serving a specific meat dish within city limits. The dish, foie gras, scarcely the caviar of the masses, was officially banned by the City Council earlier this month, a ban that is to take effect after 90 days.

A city that has yet to open a Wal-Mart is the type to ban guns and have bad public schools.