Gothamist: Chicken Pickin'

Sterling

Thu, 06 May 2004 00:52:06 -0500

Shit, Bob, I was saving that one for his next rejoinder. Fall, 1998, as I recall. I was working on Varick St., and one of our local bodegas got the spray job - homeless guy was walking into as many delis as he could manage, and squirting piss and shit under the sneeze guard, onto the food. I'm picky about stuff like this, you know? If it was a vegan virgin nun's piss and shit in a spray bottle, that would be one thing. But some crusty needle jockey living on the street? I really don't want the product of HIS bowels all over my pasta primavera, you know what I'm sayin'?

bob

Wed, 05 May 2004 21:55:11 -0500

I seem to remember a story about guy being arrested in NYC with a squeeze bottle of fecal liquids at a salad bar. The morality of harvesting chicken should be the least of your worries!

Sterling

Wed, 05 May 2004 18:38:32 -0500

Dude - the biggest, sneakiest scumbags in the world are the ones who make moral purity a part of their brand. Born Again Christians, the United Nations, etc. Eat as much chicken as you fucking want. It's probably almost rancid, anyway, or it wouldn't be in the salad bar to begin with.

chelsea chicken

Wed, 05 May 2004 12:06:00 -0500

even at whole foods?

Sterling

Wed, 05 May 2004 00:27:46 -0500

If you're using the premade salad bar, you ought to be more worried about the ethics of the owner, the person who prepared the salad, and of the guy with Hepatitis C who was there 15 minutes before you.