^No, Lisa clearly said "veal."
Darkest Simpsons Moment?
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OK, I just looked it up and I can see you're right, but now it's just stupid rather than funny. Why would the waitress loudly say "Lady, you disgust me!" if it was just Veal? She doesn't have any problems with Hamburgers does she?
Never mind, it'll always be "real" to me.
Might be a reference to no-veal groups, which do exist (though I am uncertain whether that was true at the time the episode was produced.)
^I'm sure it was. Eating veal has always been a particularly touchy subject for some reason. Reminds me of an exchange between Jamie & Paul from Mad About You...
"Never ever veal."
"Oh, right, because it's so cruel the way they raise them! What do you think they do with chickens, take them dancing first?"
"Never ever veal."
"Oh, right, because it's so cruel the way they raise them! What do you think they do with chickens, take them dancing first?"
Well, yes, but Tijuana (especially at the time the episode first aired) was known as a place where people go largely for the illegal sex trade and for cockfighting and for other unseemly activities. For that to equate in someone's mind to the happiest place on earth is rather dark.
Veal is the meat of young calves (usually males of dairy cattle breeds). link
There was some publicity during the 90s (80s?) that made it seem as though veal cattle were raised in inhumane conditions.
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I seem to remember it being a waiter, and it was probably done for shock value or reaction as Maggie was also sitting at the table?OK, I just looked it up and I can see you're right, but now it's just stupid rather than funny. Why would the waitress loudly say "Lady, you disgust me!" if it was just Veal? She doesn't have any problems with Hamburgers does she?
Never mind, it'll always be "real" to me.
In the very early episodes, what about when Krusty abrubtly slams the stage door door on Bart once he outlived his usefulness as a one trick gag? And in the case of Mayor Joe Quimby's spoilt playboy son to his 'girlfriend': "I didn't pay you to talk".
Yes, I know what veal is. What I meant was that most of the anti-veal crusading I've heard has been much more recent than the date (1994?) of the episode's original airing, and that I was uncertain about how far back the history of that cause extended.
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Yes, yes, there was lots of anti-veal stuff going around at the time of that episode. That they were kept in tight cages, stood in their own filth and never got to see the sun and all that stuff we now associate with Gitmo. 
Just an off the wall comment from tonights episode.
Skinner: [Laser pointer dot on crotch] There is a red dot on my crotch. Better take off my pants.
[Takes off pants]
It's leaked through to my underwear.
[Takes off underwear]
[Wiggum drives up and stops]
Wiggum: You should really get that looked at. My uncle died of Crotch Dot.
Not dark so much as disturbing.
Skinner: [Laser pointer dot on crotch] There is a red dot on my crotch. Better take off my pants.
[Takes off pants]
It's leaked through to my underwear.
[Takes off underwear]
[Wiggum drives up and stops]
Wiggum: You should really get that looked at. My uncle died of Crotch Dot.
Not dark so much as disturbing.
I just watched the latest episode "Papa Don't Leech". Man that was really dark. It starts off with Homer having a "wonderful" dream about euthanizing his father and has a few moments of Homer making off hand comments about leaving his family.
Homer: How could a man just abandon his family? By which how I mean what is the method he would use and could I do it?
Homer: How could a man just abandon his family? By which how I mean what is the method he would use and could I do it?
one episode had lisa go to a therapist, and homer brought film clips of her childhood, one clip had marge putting a diaper on baby lisa and homer runs by the camera chasing bart, when the therapist asks who was doing the filmong homer looks blank and monotonely says "stationary camera", the implication is child pornography
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