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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.
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How many bacon-related deaths have they ever had?
On second thought, don’t answer that.
Just for the fun of it. These vendors are probably illegal and bring their third world health standards with them.
Yes, and free people should be able to assess the risk and decide for themselves.
Could the LA govt. have a secondary agenda of not wanting to offend their Muslim brothers?
The ads are all over my TV here in Florida. They end with Arnold & his wife asking “when can you start?” (coming to California, that is). Vanessa Williams is in the ad, too. Having recently moved out of San Diego, I find the ads very amusing.
Buy the precooked sliced bacon where one just has to warm the bacon up and charge the customers a few pennies more. Problem solved!
I tried one of those at a friend’s party and it made me so SICK. I swear I’ll never eat one of those nasty dogs again....ever! I puked like there was no end in sight. My husband eat two and didn’t get sick. I guess my stomach is very sensitive to that amount of poisonous grease.
Can someone hook me up with a deep fried corn dog wrapped in bacon w/cheese?
Actually, I’m from New York originally but I went to college in L.A. and lived in Santa Barbara for 16 years.
I live in Maine now; I’d consider moving back to Santa Barbara if the median home price wasn’t one million dollars....whew! (Like many people, I have a love / hate relationship with California).
My screen name comes from the 1987 TV series “Amerika,” which depicted life in the former United States 10 years after a bloodless takeover by the Soviet Union. In the mini-series, the entire U.S. Congress consisted of native-born former Americans who were appointed by the Russian occupation forces. There was a group of freedom fighters who were trying to liberate America and, in one scene in the mini-series, the freedom fighters blew up the Soviet-controlled Capitol Building and scrawlled on the sidewalk in front of the building, “July 4th Freedom Foundation.”
For whatever reason, that scene popped up in my head when I registered here on Free Republic.
The late Robert Urich was in this mini-series; the Russians carved up a new country in the mid-west called “Heartland,” and they wanted Robert Urich’s character to be the Soviet-appointed head of this new “country.”
For years I was addicted to certain Mexican restaurants in South Tucson. About once a year or so I would get sicker than a dog after eating at one. People who think government should make life risk free are really not free at all.
Slit the raw hotdog part way through length-wise and place a strip of cheese in it. Then wrap it in a slice of thick-sliced bacon. Secure the ends with tooth picks and place in the broiler.
When done remove the tooth picks and place the dog in a toasted bun. Use your favorite condiment.
Been eating them for 50 years.
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Years ago I had one that was really goood.
Got another a few days later from the samr vendor and it made me sick.
Never went back for a “tie-breaker”.
Please tell me this is a joke. If it is not a joke, there should be a FReep and Beer anti-religion-of-peace rally to support bacon dog sellers.
The previous L.A. “Bacon-Dog” thread: (from February)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968350/posts
Split the dog, stuff it with cheese and wrap it with bacon then throw it on the grill, slap some sour cream on it....Ummm, add a good beer and a good full flavored cigar and you have all of the required food groups: protein, fat, salt, alcohol and nicotine.
You, sir, are a gourmand! (I can’t believe I forgot about sour cream.)
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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.”
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Sour cream? I never heard of putting that on them. Is that a regional thing? If so, what region? I’m in the South and have had bacon dogs, but never with sour cream.
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