ham – Moe Lane

I am trying not to laugh. I mean, the core story is interesting, if perhaps only newsworthy on a slow day: dude orders a pizza that’s touted as fitting his dietary requirements (veganism), restaurant (Domino’s) assures him repeatedly that there’s no ham on the pizza (there was), dude gets upset when he finds out what happened. That last bit’s reasonable: vegan was an actual, official option for the pizza. It’s not like the guy’s complaining because the pizza paddle or whatever wasn’t sterilized before it came into contact with another paddle that had come into contact with a sausage stromboli. Dude was given chunks of actual ham, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what he ordered. I’d be pissed off, too.

However, there’s this. (H/T: Sarah Hoyt)

But Hukins knew right away he was getting the real thing… “I felt shame and pain for the animal,” said the man, who became ill shortly after eating the entire pizza.

Glenn Reynolds has an update on the Ultimate Ham Sandwich oopsie. For those unfamiliar with it, it was an item on the Recovery.gov site that suggested that the government was buying ham at $595,600 a pound. As it turns out, there was a typo (which pretty much everyone figured, anyway): the actual price was $1.50/lb. Drudge’s retort to that reply – a link to a Food Lion online circular listing ham going for 72 cents – has since blown up; but (picking a store at random) ham is going for $1.09/lb over at the Appomattox Food Lion, which does suggest that the government should have shopped around a bit. Or maybe issued vouchers. Or made some faint nod towards a market solution.

I will politely avoid any suggestion that the reason that they didn’t is because Food Lion is not particularly known as being a heavy Democratic Party supporter.

Crossposted to RedState.

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Vegan discovers vegan pizza to be full of ham: still eats whole thing, complains.

So, they merely overspent 100% on the ham. That makes it all better.