Let Them Eat Cake
Jail inmates in El Paso County, Colo., went on a half-hour hunger strike when they learned that dinner was turkey — for the fifth consecutive night. What did they want instead? “I think,” said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Jim Groth, “anything other than turkey. Staying in the poultry family,” he speculated, “probably something like pheasant.” (Colorado Springs Gazette) ...You can’t blame them: jailers told them “You are what you eat.”
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