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New Orleans Declares Alligator A Fish · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Looks like McDonald's will get even busier. Workers expected to
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  Speaker 1: be serving a lot of file of fish sandwiches beginning today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the first day of Lent. You may have
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  Speaker 1: noticed on TV McDonald's been stepping up their advertising campaign
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  Speaker 1: even on the radio. Here for the fried fish sandwich,
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  Speaker 1: which is traditionally a powerhouse menu item this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald sells about seventy five million of them during the
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  Speaker 1: forty days of Lent.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so no meat Fridays, no.
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  Speaker 1: Meat Fridays, so that makes sense. The filay of fish
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  Speaker 1: was introduced in nineteen sixty two by franchise owner Lou
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  Speaker 1: Green or Lou Groan I'm sorry, g r oe n
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. He noticed a sales slump in the heavily
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  Speaker 1: Catholic neighborhood during Lent, so he created the sandwich to
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  Speaker 1: keep the restaurant afloat.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we've got to get something for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we go hit up Mickey D's for a
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  Speaker 1: little file of fish later on today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, I guess if we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be doing the fileyo fish and your luck enough to
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  Speaker 2: be heading to New Orleans, you've got another. You've got
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  Speaker 2: another alternative if you're you know, following, and you're doing
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  Speaker 2: Lent and you can't have chicken or meat or pork
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  Speaker 2: on Fridays, by the way, like producer Christen, the former
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aimond wrote a letter back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty ten reminding us that we can eat alligator on
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  Speaker 2: Fridays during Lent.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, yep, but that's meat.
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  Speaker 2: He said that it is seafood. So this is a
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  Speaker 2: sixteen year old letter that makes the realms this time
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  Speaker 2: of year. Every year Catholics are skipping meat and poultry
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  Speaker 2: on Fridays during Lent in favor of fish and other seafood.
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  Speaker 2: Alligator is, according to this former archbishop, a seafood. So
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  Speaker 2: that's an option for you.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean in Florida they can eat those iguanas.
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  Speaker 2: Those I every time I say feel bad for the iguanas,
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  Speaker 2: we get text messages they're like, no, they're an evasive species.
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  Speaker 2: And okay, I understand, but do you want to eat
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  Speaker 2: eat them? Because they kind of just passed out from
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  Speaker 2: the cold, right right, And then people were gathering again
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  Speaker 2: them and there were there was like at least one
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  Speaker 2: pizza place that was putting iguana on the menu, and
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  Speaker 2: the pieces were selling out, and then they got a
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  Speaker 2: cease and desist because iguana wasn't approved FDA approved. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I know that for human that they had to stop,
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  Speaker 2: but it was selling really well until they were told no.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So the burning question can you text us
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  Speaker 1: at four four three sixty three? Would you eat alligator?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? Is that? Is that seafood? Is that what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Would you eat alligator? In general? I've seen Eric do
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  Speaker 2: it when we're in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: There's like no, she says no, no, no, But they're
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  Speaker 1: saying it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: For lent according to the Catholic Church. They the Catholic Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, yes you can if you want to. You
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  Speaker 2: have this option if.
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  Speaker 1: You're not feeling risky. Again, the fle fish available at McDonald's. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a commercial. This is just other people
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  Speaker 1: are talking about. I'm coming right back with more variety
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  Speaker 1: from the eighties through today.