Delicious Irony
Fish story…
Too bad fish and game rules don’t apply to Al Gore.
Gore was caught, but we suspect won’t be released by pundits, in the latest instance of the former next President’s “do as I say, not as I do” lifestyle.
As described in the Daily Telegraph,
Only one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills. Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world’s most threatened fish species.
About the only way this could be more embarrassing was if the appetizer had been penguin.
It would be very easy to criticize Gore for hypocrisy except for one small fact … Chilean sea bass is freakin’ delicious. Cooked right, as I’m sure it was at Sarah Gore’s reception, it is tender, flaky and melts in your mouth.
Lightly saute it in a macadamia crust and you’ve got yourself a dining experience second to none.
There will probably be the usual standard denials that this particular sea bass was farm-raised or that the Gores only knew that the choice was “fish” and not Chilean sea bass.
Al and Tipper reportedly are very good clients of the Beverly Hills Crustacean restaurant, so the usual practice would be to have the restaurant’s chef and management take the fall on this. Stay tuned for the flurry of PR releases to follow.
On the other hand, this would be a great opportunity for Gore to embrace his inner capitalist and just come out and admit that living a “green” life should be an individual option and not a government-imposed duty.
Al could continue to preach to the choir about the end of the world, and the rest of us could live our lives as we see fit and not have to worry about laws, bureaucrats and Sheryl Crow encroaching on our personal decisions.
Or maybe Gore’s next book will be an endangered species cookbook. There’s only a limited number of Chilean sea bass left. It would be a shame to waste them by overcooking them or using too much cajun seasoning.
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Great article. I have to agree with you on the sea bass. I loves me some sea bass. Presented with Chilean sea bass, I’d probably “cheat”, too!
July 19th, 2007 at 6:33 am
lol… I have to say that I am actually not a fan of sea bass and I am probably one of few.
It’s hard to make your entire life Green. Being a foodie myself, I know it’s more green to be vegetarian but I love meat too much.. There are some things you can do and some things you can’t… and if your daughter wants a Chilean Sea Bass at her wedding, you can’t stop them. I have learned.. that you can suggest people to go green but you can’t really force them… when my soon to be mother in law bought me a coffeemaker with the paper filters, did I go into a diatribe about how we are cutting down the trees. No, I smiled and said thank you because really.. domestic peace is on much higher priority than pissing my future in law off for the cause of green.. sometimes you win. sometimes you don’t
July 19th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:16 am
very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader