Foie Gras: Gone Again?

TheCookie · January 12, 2019, 3:03am

Thanks!

behemoth · January 12, 2019, 7:04am

This is correct. The supreme court’s ruling has not taken effect yet and won’t for another 30+ days for various procedural reasons I won’t bore everyone with. It is surprising some places stopped serving so quickly — I suspect they were either misled by some of the media coverage or had little in stock and were content to rip the band aid off rather than keep serving right up until the ban actually takes force.

TheCookie · January 12, 2019, 7:59am

I thought this.

NewTrial · January 12, 2019, 9:36am

Likelier that the ones who routinely offered it on the menu presumed the ban went back into effect automatically and did not consult with counsel.

savvysearch · January 14, 2019, 1:26am

What’s interesting is that it seems like foie gras was more popular than ever. I was seeing it at a lot of menus in the bay area and in almost every supermarket. Oh well, there’s always Las Vegas and online shopping.

catholiver · January 14, 2019, 1:38am

You saw it in supermarkets? Like lobes of it? Was it fresh or frozen? At well over $100 per liver…well, whew. I’ve never seen that but I’m sure LA has things that few other places have. I’d sure be buying some and freezing. I’ve cut them in half and frozen and it doesn’t suffer at all. And you save on shipping.

LAFoodiePanda · January 16, 2019, 4:59am

Had one of the last orders of Foie Gras at E.S.T. Steakhouse at the Sheraton Hotel in San Gabriel last Saturday night.

PorkyBelly · January 16, 2019, 5:32am

savvysearch · January 19, 2019, 1:38pm

Not lobes in supermarkets, but the pate de foie gras I saw everywhere, in a lot of Safeways and Mollie Stone’s. Lobes I saw at Draeger’s. Speaking mostly about up in the bay area. But even in Orange County, Ralphs carries the pate de foie gras continuously in their cheese section. El Toro Meat market carried the lobes of foie gras at different grades when I stopped by there.

catholiver · January 19, 2019, 4:26pm

I wonder if the pates weren’t duck and therefore no problem. Interesting.

I know a chef who recently added foie as an option on a special burger. I’ve considered asking him if he could order an extra for me next time.

robert · January 19, 2019, 11:34pm

The law says “bird,” not “duck,” so goose will also be illegal whenever the Ninth Circuit does its thing. Though I’ve never seen goose foie gras for sale in the US.

catholiver · January 19, 2019, 11:45pm

I’d just wondered if the label of “pate de foie gras” could be a misnomer for some other pate’.

robert · January 20, 2019, 1:21am

Not legally.

savvysearch · January 20, 2019, 10:38am

This is what I see in a lot of supermarkets.

I’m assuming it’s the real thing. Even if it’s not the pure thing.

catholiver · January 20, 2019, 4:20pm

I was thinking about this. Perhaps I was assuming that the presence of these products was during the ban. ? For which I have no explanation.

robert · January 20, 2019, 8:58pm

It contains foie gras.

The ban was in effect from July 2012 to January 2015. The enforcement provisions are very weak. If markets didn’t stop carrying it nothing would have happened unless someone made a complaint.

catholiver · January 20, 2019, 9:22pm

Ah I see. Thanks.

Nemroz · January 20, 2019, 9:29pm

i’m starting an underground gavagery in chinatown

TheCookie · January 23, 2019, 8:47pm

Yep, I get their pâté products. A lot of chicken and duck liver pâté has pork in it, there’s does not and I like that.

robert · January 25, 2019, 11:22pm