San Luis Obispo has fiberglass "Trout About Town" as part of a public art drive to raise funds for charity. But things keep happening to them trout.

Call it the unbearable lightness of public art. You see a simulated cow on the street, a man-fashioned pig, a manufactured moose, and even without a few beers in ya, ya just gotta mess with it.

Seems to happen again and again: pigs in Seattle; moose in Toronto; and cows in Chicago and South Carolina.

Myself, I hold the trout sacred, and prefer the real deal to the fiberglass replica.

As in Trout Bacquet, a la Eddie's restaurant in N'Awlins: trout laced with melted butter and baked briefly at a high temperature with a layer of crabmeat atop.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 15, 2005 11:40 PM