http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/28/news/paris.php

Just when you think you've heard it all...

Quote :

"PARIS More than 200 political activists defied a police ban to demonstrate here last week, scurrying across the Boulevard Saint Germain and under the plane trees of Place Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public. With steaming bowls of the fragrant broth soon passing through the crowd, Odile Bonnivard, a secretary turned far-right firebrand, climbed atop a dark sedan with a megaphone in hand and led the crowd in a raucous chant: "We are all pig eaters! We are all pig eaters!""

Quote :

"In December, Bonnivard said, a van of plainclothes police officers chased her soup-bearing car through the streets, and several busloads of police officers arrived to stop her group from setting up at their usual spot near the Montparnasse train station, citing "the discriminatory nature of the soup." She and her group filed an appeal."

That phrase will go down in the PC Hall of Fame

[Edited on March 17, 2006 at 4:39 PM. Reason : as]

3/17/2006 4:37:11 PM

3/17/2006 4:37:38 PM

No soup for you.

3/17/2006 6:19:41 PM

maybe the French authorities will realize how much bad publicity this is generating for their country

3/17/2006 9:08:36 PM

....and kick the muslims out finally?

3/17/2006 11:28:31 PM

...and let people give what they want to who they want?

3/18/2006 12:24:03 AM

So its like a faux pas to eat pork in France now?

3/18/2006 12:24:32 AM

obviously the cops feel the connection to their swine bretheren.

3/18/2006 1:12:49 AM

Why stop with soup?

I eat BBQ sandwhichs to say down with Islamic radicalism. Political activism has never been tastier.

3/18/2006 12:32:51 PM

Let's just end all pork consumption, since it's obviously offensive and discriminatory against all Muslims.

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3/18/2006 12:57:10 PM

well it is discriminatory against pigs.

3/18/2006 7:01:53 PM

^LOL

3/18/2006 8:14:23 PM

^^I see what you did there.

3/18/2006 8:39:15 PM

so frog soup in france... ok? not ok?

3/18/2006 10:32:38 PM