Kopps Custard Manager Asks Biden to Lower Taxes: Joe Ignores Him - Eats his Free Ice Cream

What a jerk. Joe Biden was in Greenfield, Wisconsin for a fundraiser for Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI). He and his entourage stop by Kopp's Custard Stand. Biden donns a two-corner hat, gets behind the counter and does something unuseful. We see him with a cone of yummy-looking frozen custard. He loses the hat and tries to pay. The smiling Manager tells him the custard is comp'd, then asks Biden to "lower taxes." Biden doesn't even look the guy's way. He completely ignores him and walks away. Arrogant, rude, brutish and uncalled for behavior. Update: see second video below, in which Real Clear Politics says Biden called the Manager a "smartass."







Joe Biden at Kopps Custard (video)

Beppe Bigazzi Cat Casserole: Beppe Bigazzi Eats Cats: Celebrity Chef Stews Cats

Beppe Bigazzi is a top celebrity chef in Italy...or was. He has been suspended from his television show for recommending stewing cats for dinner, after soaking them in spring water for three days. Bigazzi said "casserole of cat" was a famous dish in his home region of Valdamo in Tuscany.

Beppe Bigazzi

The live show went to a commercial break, and a young woman on the show with him, cat owner, Elisa Isoardi, and the show's producer tried to convince him to apologize. He refused.

I’ve eaten it myself and it’s a lot better than many other animals,” he told viewers. “Better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.” He said that for optimum flavour the meat should be “soaked in spring water for three days” before being stewed.

Bigazzi is now being investigated for "criminal offences" and "incitement to mistreat animals." Punishment can be as much as 18 months in jail.

He also recommended a "cat soup" recipe and then said he expected to hear from  "racist" environmentalists.

He is the author of Cooking with Common Sense, and considered a "star" celebrity chef on Ready Steady Cook in Italy:

He is noted for his exuberant style and previously caused uproar by boiling lobsters live on the show. Yesterday he said that he had only been joking about the recipe, and he had been misunderstood.

He added: “Mind you, I wasn’t joking all that much. In the 1930s and 1940s, when I was a boy, people certainly did eat cat.

Venice, Italy has long been known as "magnagati" or "cat eaters," going back to the hardships of Medieval times. Cat is still considered a delicacy in South East Asia.

 A very sweet reader, oriana, took the time to find the video with English sub-titles. Thank you oriana!





Beppe Bigazzi - Cat Casserole English Sub-titles (video) Others talking about Beppe Bigazzi: Oriana at Tuscanycious

Martha Stewart Mariana Pasternak: Mariana Pasternak Book Dishes on Martha Stewart

The Enquirer, that source of mounds of dirty gossip which more often than not has more than a grain of truth to it, says Martha Stewart's former best friend, Mariana Pasternak will tell all about Martha's "lesbian dates," her "prison attack horror," and the "violent temper tantrums" that won't surprise anyone.

The breaking news is, this quarter-century's Queen of Mean, Martha Stewart, allegedly collapsed after hearing her former friend's allegations. I have written little about Martha Stewart, but when this egotistical, narcissistic and outrageously rude  domestic diva, who can't seem to make a single home happy, decided to talk-down about Sarah Palin and a very unsuspecting TV host, Rachel Ray, I couldn't pass it up.

The former friend, Mariana Pasternak, testified against Martha in the stock-trading-dumping trial that sent her to a federal prison. Friends say Martha never forgave Pasternak.

Martha and Mariana, 56, were close for more than 20 years. They chatted on the phone nearly every day, lived around the corner from each other in swanky Westport, Conn., and took vacations together....

"Martha has called Mariana in tears, screaming at her, 'Why would you do this to me?' She still doesn't know exactly what Mariana has written, but Mariana knows Martha's most intimate secrets, and the book is sure to spill them.

Stewart made a guest appearance on Rachel Ray's Food Network show a couple of months ago, and then immediately gave an interview saying that Ray had simply re-edited previous cookbooks to publish her latest, and oh yes...she accused Rachel of "not having a garden." It's no surprise that this shallow and affected woman can't keep a friend.

Martha Stewart told Cynthia McFadden that while Rachael Ray may be popular, her style is "not good enough" for the domestic diva.

"She professed that she cannot bake," Stewart told "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden. "She just did a new cookbook which is just a re-edit of a lot of her old recipes. And that's not good enough for me.

Leona Helmsley may have been the original Queen of Mean but in her absence, Martha Stewart has willingly opened that door, walked through it and assumed the position. Assuming Pasternak's book is true and well-vetted, I hope she sells a lot of copies.
Cartoon courtesy of Daryl Cagle, Slate.com