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Article: Love 'em or Hate 'em, But You Can't Ignore Anchovies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 10, 1994
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Forget about political ideologies, religious beliefs and hair
color. The world is divided into two camps: those who love anchovies
and those who would rather eat library paste.
Asking people to justify their allegiance sheds little light on
these wee fishes. Those who loathe anchovies say, "I hate them for
their fishiness, their oiliness, their abject ugliness." Those who
adore them say, "I love them for their fishiness and their oiliness,
despite their abject ugliness."
Even devotees of pizza parlors don't automatically request
anchovies. A recent quick survey of five pizza establishments in the
Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area ranked anchovies as the least
favorite topping.
"At the ...