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.
Now that I think of it, the non ping list and the tard list are really WTF ping lists.
MissouriConservative might enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun. SA, ES please add MC.
He’s added.
“I am glad that violent crime in LA is so under control that the police have nothing better to do than to hassle hot dog vendors who offer bacon with their hot dogs. /s”
I saw this headline and immediately thought of the episode of “Gangland” that I watched last night. I guess there is no money in hassling the “soldiers” of 18th street cliques.
The problem is government bureaucrats and safety Nazis are brainless morons.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience" -- C.S. Lewis
Not with tourism. With people moving away. Real estate, energy, taxes, everything is more expensive in California because of their stupid government. It should be called the socialist peoples republic of california.
My brother lived in LA and he said nothing would kill you faster than a Taco Stand.
Where’s your cart?
The best falafel I ever had was at a stand four blocks from the UN, and the best gyro I ever had was a stand in front of Bryan Park.
Man, NYC street vendors have good food!!
Ed
:-P
(Queue massive quantities of libtard head asplosions.)
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