Chicago doesn't know its butt from its colon

Let's start with this image, a billboard in Chicago, courtesy of the health Taliban known as Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Their admirable intention: to call attention to Chicago's outsize record of colo-rectal cancer. The PCRM blames that staple of the Midwest diet, hot dogs, and claims that a third of the American public doesn't even know what the colon is, let alone that an "unhealthy" diet of processed meats can give you colo-rectal cancer.

Cornichon had the pleasure, a few years ago, of visiting one of the Chicago's iconic hot-dog temples, Portillo's. Yellow mustard, check. Sweet pickle relish, check. Onions, check. The City of Broad Shoulders has some broad butts as well, standard issue for many citizens these days, but there wasn't a case of butt cancer in sight.

Suggestion to the PCRM: stop trying to scare people into becoming vegetarians.