Freepers___
When was the last time you got sick from a food cart....anywhere?
It sounds like New Yawk needs a mustard and relish czar.
I see the NYC nanny-staters have a new target. Time to get rid of street food carts in New York. If you want to eat lunch, you’ll have to spend $15 for a sandwich in a deli or restaurant.
That's why they love the minimum wage. It can be used to drive small businesses out of business.
And yet I bought tacos made of “mystery meat” from a street vendor in Cabo with no ill effects.
:-D
When I was in Mexico, the base state of being in business is a tray of food around your neck with a heat source. Somebody had practically every corner covered. My hosts had their favorites and I ate everything from fish to beef with no ill effects. True, you were, in my opinion, taking your chances. But the vendors seemed to have tasty and hot food. (The spices and heat probably cuts down on bacteria.)
If Mexico had the laws and regulation we have here none of those people would be making a living. What we need here is fewer laws and regulation.
Lack of regulation in NY? LOL
Wash it down with a Big Gulp, NY.
My daughter backpacked through Viet Nam (and SE Asia) in 2002. She ate most of her food at street vendors in open markets. Did not get sick once.
She said she stood back and watched a little while. Chose the vendors with the longest lines and least flies.
The lament of Italians and Germans in the 1920s.
Lord knows we could not have food prepared, bought and consumed by consenting adults without government occupying a seat at the table.
/johnny
The Halal carts by Radio City always have a line down the block. It’s really good food, but this article surprises me about 0%.
Ah, yes. Bureaucrats. Expanded government. Higher taxes. That'll fix it.
There are probably 100,000 open air food carts operating in the tropical climate of Bangkok. Fresh ingredients in open containers. Not a problem. And Thai food...yum.
Sounds like typical BS from a restaurateur who doesn't like the competition.
Of course, if you're an illegal alien selling tacos or elotes from a cart with no business license, no liability insurance, no sales or income taxes, no workman's comp, no sanitation certificate, etc., you will be left completely alone.
Only American serfs will subject to oversight by their lords and masters in the governing class.
Along about August this summer, I saw a unrefrigerated box truck with the door up in front of our local Mexican restaurant. There was a puddle of goop about a foot in diameter forming off the back where meat juices were dripping out of the truck. I sat and watched them take “fresh” meat off the truck and into the restaurant. I could readily see chickens and hunks of beef in the same open cardboard boxes being carried into the restaurant through the front door where diners enter, dripping goop all the way. A few weeks later, I saw a picture of the same truck in a tweet from a local paper. State Police had stopped the truck when meat goop was splattering the patrol car on the interstate. Every restaurant on there delivery route was shut down, all Mexican places. Some were closed permanently because get this - they had sleeping quarters in the kitchens.
There are definitely some bad operators out there.