Why is it that when extra junk spending goes into a congressional spending bill they call it "pork"?

Pork is not some nasty thing. It is tasty. It comes in so many wonderful different forms. Pork is not extra junk.

The proper term should be "celery".

Imagine with me for a moment. You have just finished pounding down a pulled pork sandwich (just one of the many wonderful ways pork is found in nature)and some sausage links. You still are hankering from something to top you off so you order up some hot wings. (I find it is always good to have multiple meats in your meal to help regulate the digestive track) Now, your wings finally make it to the table and what do you find taking up real estate on your plate, celery.

Now of course you would normally never touch celery unless by accident but in this case you eat every piece. Why, it is because they work as little edible scraping sticks that you can use to get every last drop of blue cheese dressing out of that little bowl it comes in.

Just like in congress the original bill just had "the hot wings" in it, but somewhere along the line someone put a a couple of "celery" sticks in the bill. No one is going to send back "the wings" because of the added "celery" and the "celery" still gets eaten. The term "pork" is thus not appropriately used.

An observation and editorial by the fatness.