Posted on 04/26/2008 8:08:24 AM PDT by JesusBmyGod
Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles, there exists another world, an underground world of illicit trade in-not drugs or sex-but bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Street vendors may sell you an illegal bacon dog, but hardly anyone will talk about it, for fear of being hassled, shut down or worse. Our camera caught it on tape. One minute bacon dogs are sold in plain view, the next minute cops have confiscated carts, and ordered the dogs dumped into the trash.
Elizabeth Palacios is one of the few vendors willing to speak publicly. "Doing bacon is illegal," she explains. Problem is customers love bacon, and Palacios says she loses business if she doesn't give them the bacon they demand. "Bacon is a potentially hazardous food," says Terrence Powell of the LA County Health Department. Continue selling bacon dogs without county-approved equipment and you risk fines and jail time.
Palacios knows all about that. She spent 45 days in the slammer for selling bacon dogs, and with the lost time from work, fines, and attorney's fees, she fears she might lose the house that bacon dogs helped buy. She must provide for her family, but remains trapped between government regulations and consumer demand. Customers don't care about safety codes, says Palacios. "They just want the bacon."
In "Food Fight: Battle of the Bacon Dogs," reason.tv host Drew Carey takes a long look at the human cost of trying to prohibit trade in oh-so-tasty treats.
As sad as your story is it has gone the other way in Houston. On every other corner there is a mexican mobile taqueria . As long as they are mobile the health department doesn’t inspect them. Cleanliness is not an issue that they care about. I would starve before eating at one of these germ invested third world inventions.
Who eats the “food” that they serve? Mostly illegal aliens. The folks that can go to mexico and drink the water.
Ah, perfect spring - 79 degrees and sunny. I just pulled burgers and chicken off the grill about an hour ago and have bbq beef on the smoker for tonight or tomorrow. Just stepped back in side for a beer and figured I’d check FR.
Bacon dogs sound good and I’d try one, but I’d rather take a bratwurst - extra fat already built in.
The ads are in English. Guess they have enough illegal alien criminal scum and are running out of white people. The true producers.
you just cracked me up!
I was just thinking the same thing about an hour ago.
I am glad you liked it, I don’t think the others paid any mind to it or got it...
Am Molly by the way
Paging Eric Blair! Bureaucrat needing a beatdown in Aisle 4! (And why am I not on the nanny-state ping list yet?)
Get yourself a good 1/4 pound Kosher hot dog, wrap it in bacon, grill it or microwave it for a couple of minutes, and you've got one of the world's best hot dogs, even though it is a bit sacreligious.
“Sour cream? I never heard of putting that on them.”
Don’t know where it originated...seems we always had sour cream to use as a condiment. Try it. Really sets off the bacon flavor.
Hi Molly.
Brian here.
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The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It’s Illegal
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Arrested?
She spent 45 days in the slammer for selling bacon dogs,.....
Thanks for the ping.
there was a WTF ping list but the guy doing it shot his computer.
I'll volunteer to start up a WTF ping list. Who wants in?
Just put me on the Nanny State PINGs, please. Thanks.
Put me on a WTF ping list.
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