Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

 

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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As quoted in The New York Times (20 April 1989), though nuanced by Hoffman, this is probably derived from an anonymous saying recorded in Encyclopedia of Graffiti (1974) by Robert George Reisner and Lorraine Wechsler as "Sacred cows make great hamburgers."

 

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