Ginny Dietrick fought the law Monday. But this time, she won. Show The Louisiana resident was celebrating her 91st birthday by enjoying a lunch of Longstreet Cafe’s finest fried chicken Monday when Gainesville Police Chief Frank Hooper told Dietrick to put down her fork and listen up — she was under arrest. Hooper informed Dietrick that it’s against city ordinance to eat fried chicken, “a culinary delicacy sacred to this municipality, this county, this state, the Southland
and this republic,” with anything other than your fingers. The 1961 ordinance was put on city books as a sort of public relations stunt to promote Gainesville as the poultry capital of the world, Hooper said. Dietrick had Gainesville resident and friend A.C. Marshall to thank for the practical joke. Dietrick can also thank Marshall for setting up her pardon. Gainesville Mayor Myrtle Figueras was on hand at Longstreet Cafe to dismiss the charges of improper poultry consumption against Dietrick. And Abit Massey, president-emeritus of the Georgia Poultry Federation, ordained Dietrick an Honorary Georgia Poultry Princess. “You are required to come back to Gainesville often and are required to eat lots of Gainesville chicken,” Figueras told her. Dietrick said in all of her 91 years,
this was her first run in with the law “except for a ticket I got once way back in the ’40s — something about parking,” she said. Dietrick’s arrest citation ordered her not to get up from the table until she mastered the proper techniques for consuming this succulent delicacy, “down to and including the licking of the fingers upon the ingestion of the last available morsel.”
Andrea Coleman Mar 6, 2019 4 min read Photo by Stefania Crudeli on Unsplash In Gainesville, Georgia, there is an ordinance that requires people to eat fried chicken with their fingers. Eating fried chicken with a knife, fork, spoon or any other utensil is strictly forbidden and illegal. I love food and am very particular about it. The idea that a town has gone so far as to codify a LAW about how to eat is WONDERFUL. The vast majority of the reported strange or archaic laws said to be still in effect in the American states are urban myths, misinterpretations, or simply made up. Some are deliberate distortions of existing laws, as in the Massachusetts law which bans
transporting wild animals in the back of vehicles. Since a gorilla is a wild animal and the law bans their transportation, some imaginative soul decided that Massachusetts had a law banning gorillas from the back seat and an urban legend was born. It could just as easily have been a wolf, or a bear, or some other animal which was at one time indigenous to the region, which would have
led to yet another strange law which in reality doesn’t exist. One strange law that does exist comes from the State of Tennessee and addresses the disposal of what is commonly called roadkill; dead animals in or alongside the roadways of the state. If the animal is a game animal a driver happening upon it (the law doesn’t say he has to be the one which struck the animal) is allowed to “possess it for your personal use and consumption”. If the animal happens to be a deer the law specifies
whoever takes it must notify the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) within 24 hours, providing them the possessor’s name and address. Bears are also available to the finder, but with a permit issued from the TWRA. Good dining. Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources: “Strange Arizona Laws You Should Know”. ENJURIS. Robert E. Wisniewski. Online “Weird laws in Massachusetts”. Boston.com staff. June 18, 2015. Online “The Myth of the Connecticut Pickle Law”. Debra Pond, Connecticut State Library Law Reference Librarian. August 2013 “Does Florida have a weird law about elephants and parking meters?” Ryan Harper, News 13 Florida. April 13, 2015. Online “Do you speak American?” Dennis Baron, PBS Online. “Animal Prisoner at the Bar”. Joseph P. McNamara, Notre Dame Law Review. 1927 “Virginia city threatens trick-or-treaters over the age of 12 with jail time to thwart Halloween mischief”. Danielle Garrand, CBS News. October 9, 2018. Online “Weird traffic laws from each of the 50 US states”. Chris Riley, Autowise. September 28, 2018 “Strange North Carolina Laws That Will Have You Scratching Your Head”. Kelly & West News, Kelly & West Attorneys. Online “Wow, these laws are stupid”. Kelly Bayliss, NBC 10, Philadelphia. July 17, 2009. Online “Weird Laws in Nevada”. Ovation/Blog, Las Vegas Living. Online “Strange Wisconsin Laws”. Ashley Steinbrinck, Whoonew.com. July 7, 2014. Online “Sunday, Sabbath, and the Weekend”. Edward O’Flaherty, Rodney L. Peterson, Timothy A. Norton. 2010 “Visitor Arrested for Eating Chicken With a Fork”. Jessica Jordan, Gainesville Times. July 20, 2009 “25 obscure laws on the books in Oregon: Are you breaking the rules?” Michael Lloyd, The Oregonian. March 12, 2016 “Strange laws in Arkansas”. Amanda Galiano, tripsavvy.com. May 17, 2017 “50 Craziest State Laws From Around the United States” KARA LADD. GoodHousekeeping.com. Jun 18, 2020. “Driving You Crazy: Can you really not drive a black car on Sunday in Denver?”. By Jayson Luber, Denver Channel, Jul 28, 2017 “Bizarre traffic laws from around the world: Don’t drive with a blindfold, check for children under the car!”, by FE Online, Financial Express, Jul 17, 2017 “It’s illegal to buy, sell or dye baby chicks, ducks, rabbits”, by Michelle Ganley, KSAT, April 16, 2019 “Don’t eat that frog: Wacky laws pose challenge for states cleaning up the books”, By Adam Shaw, Fox News, July 16, 2015 “Here’s Why We Pronounce ‘Kansas’ And ‘Arkansas’ Differently”, by Christina Sterbenz, Business Insider, Feb 8, 2014 Is it illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork in Gainesville Georgia?Yes, in Gainesville, Georgia, you can get arrested for eating fried chicken with anything but your hands. In 1961, Gainesville passed a law making it illegal to use fork to eat fried chicken as a way to promote Gainesville as a “poultry capital of the world”.
Are you allowed to eat fried chicken with a fork?HELEN'S ANSWER: If you have fried chicken at a picnic and in a really casual setting, you can use your hands. If you have fried chicken in a restaurant and sometimes at home, use a knife and fork. If the chicken is greasy, use the fork.
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