Ohio Health Official Totally Grossed Out
Ohio health officials have been acting with
urgency recently due to the threat of the 'avian flu'. The disease has
infected poultry in several parts of Asia but has not yet spread to the
United States. The flu can prove deadly to humans, and the U.S. government
has banned all imports of poultry from Asia.
On Thursday, authorities began finding
packages of boneless chicken feet at oriental markets that had been smuggled
in from Thailand and labeled as jellyfish. Agent Penny Mackland was
absolutely disgusted to find that many Asians consider boneless chicken feet
a delicacy. "Oh, god, get out of here, they do not!," exclaimed Ms. Mackland,
when told of this culinary oddity. "They do not stick those nasty things
into their mouths".
Penny's friend and colleague Lieutenant
Dennis was also skeptical of the theory that the feet were meant for
consumption, even though Deputy Chief Health Official Higgins had told him
so. "Penny begged me to prove him wrong, so I got on the web and searched.
There it was,
articles,
pictures, recipes, the
whole shebang. Man, oh man, I've never even seen that, even on 'Fear
Factor'. I tried to put the best face on the situation and tell Penny that
it was a big old world out there, but she just started bawling".
"I always try to treat everybody as an
equal," said Ms. Mackland, "but those days are sadly gone". |
FGAQ's
screwed artist of the week award goes to Charleston, West Virginia sculptor
Joe Mullins. Mullins was commissioned by the state in 1999 to create a
statue commemorating West Virginia's female veterans. This is not the first
work that Mullins, a Vietnam Vet, has done for the state -
