Nanny State PING!
Posted on 12/27/2012 2:15:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.
City inspectors threatened a misdemeanor citation and $500 fine if Lynden’s soda fountain is caught selling the fake smokes again. The Star Tribune reported Wednesday that the offering violated an ordinance barring the sale of candy smokes and cartoon character lighters. …
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These “inspectors” just make the law up as they go along? I’d just shut the store down and say, “Now try collecting any taxes from this place...see if zero helps you out and pays your salary.”
Nope ... they’ll be expelled from 1st grade before they ever get to be gangsta’s.
tell me about it....at age 16 the dentist filled 32 cavities with that nice mercury filling...I only had 28 teeth.
This is what happens when your city council is all democraps,
“We’ve already gone off the common-sense cliff.”
Indeed we have.
All the while, you can buy crack or Heroin on every street corner. What a world, huh?
Wait wait wait you’re Saying an Outfit That Elected Jesse, goorbener is Wack?
Imho, the nuts in Minnesota (a subset of the population) ought to be left as a topping for sundaes, not put in political office, but it is their State, not mine.
We could afford dental care when I was a kid, but Novocaine wasn't in the budget. We brushed, and if we ever got lax, the drill and fill was a poignant reminder to be more diligent.
City inspectors justifying their existence at the expense of little kids.
Same with my brother and I. Never have and won’t. “smoked” the candy for years.
We had a place “Riddles” run by Mrs. Riddle. She was the meanest woman on the planet, but her little store was across from my elementary school ( I lived across the street from school & went home for lunch)& it was filled w/ every candy treasure & icecream! She must have made a fortune off us kids. We were terrified of her, but greediness for her goods kept us coming back.
She found out who my grandmother was & then she was pretty nice to me. I have really fond memories of that place & time. It was so innocent. I also loved the candy dots on the strip of paper. My husband loves BB bats & I will ocasionally buy him the little .59 cent bag.
That’s the neat thing about grandfathers. My screen just got blurry.
Amazing how you managed to survive all that sugar and roaming the neighborhood by yourself without worry. Those were the days.
Nanny State PING!
Nanny State PING!
Sounds like a great project while I have GD for this vacation time. :) Thanks...I had forgotten...this joy from youth. :)
Yep there are a passel of liberal swedes up there .....who backed the wrestler. I remember watching tv one night after he got in and there he was waltzin’ around in a ring in a boa.....hahaha..omg
Well, if you did, it would of course be candy cancer.
Nickle pops? I forgot about those.....
I grew up on a farm in MN and every Friday night during the summer we would go into town and my parents would give me a quarter to spend and I remember getting a bag full of candy. Sometimes that would include candy cigs. or cigars that were usually a pastel color.....
I had the best childhood.....
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