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Chicago Barbecue Police Cites Pinoy Lechonero

Monday Feb 11, 2008

(From Pinoy Centric via Chicago Tribune article by John Kass.)

pinoy lechoneroAmerica was a free country, once, before the Barbecue Police put their boot heels on our necks.

“Or, you can call them the Pig Police, since they hate people cooking pigs in their own back yard!” Amante Enad, 55, of Wheeling told me Thursday.
“That’s what I was doing, until they wrote tickets on me and took me to court. I said, ‘What rights do I have to cook in my own back yard? Don’t I have rights to cook a pig on my own property?’ And they gave me the tickets.”

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