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The Cook County Forest Preserve Has Trout Fishing!

By The Cook County Forest Preserve

The Forest Preserves of Cook County is pleased to announce that the fall trout fishing season starts at dawn on Saturday, October 19.
Catchable-sized rainbow trout (1/2 -1 lbs) will be stocked into Axehead Lake, Belleau Lake, Horsetail Lake, and, new this year, Busse Reservoir North Pool.
As part of the stocking process, from October 1 until dawn on October 19, fishing for and possession of any trout is illegal. In addition, the trout lakes will be closed to all fishing from Monday, October 14, until dawn on October 19. The lake closings allow the trout to disperse throughout the lakes prior to opening.

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Posted on October 15, 2013

Random Food Report: McDonald’s Second Only To Body Of Christ

Burger King, Hardee’s Bring Up Rear

1. That’s Why They Are “Mc” Nuggets.
“Scientists took a close look at the chicken nugget and discovered what some may have suspected: it’s not full of what we might think of as meat,” CBS reports.
“A study published online in September in the American Journal of Medicine – cleverly titled ‘The Autopsy of Chicken Nuggets Reads Chicken Little‘ – revealed that two nuggets from fast food chains in Jackson, Miss. contained only about half of what we would consider chicken meat.”
Frankly, we don’t care. Chicken McNuggets could be made from fiberglass and styrofoam and we’d still eat ’em – as long as they still tasted so spectacular with fake barbecue dipping sauce. When you eat at McDonald’s, you know what you’re getting into. The “Mc” is additional notice that what you’re eating isn’t real, like an alternate version of “ish.” Even the hamburgers at McDonald’s, we suspect, are merely hamburger-ish. So what. Eating “real” hamburger and chicken already puts you over a line from which there is no return – you are eating the wings, buttocks, breasts and thighs of what were once actual living creatures, for godsakes. Why should it freak anyone out that your nuggets include blood vessels and nerve cells? How could they not?

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Posted on October 7, 2013

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