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Denver Struggles With Exploding Hot Dog Carts: They're the Wurst
Red State ^ | 10-24-26 | Ward Clark

Posted on 10/25/2026 8:08:30 AM PDT by dynachrome

Portable food carts are an accepted fact of life in many of our major cities, and even in some small towns. For years, in the Alaska town of Talkeetna, a regular fixture on that small touristy town's main drag was the halibut taco cart. The halibut were cooked using a propane tank under the cart — until the tank exploded, breaking windows and causing damage all up and down the street. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. But if it's a halibut taco you want now in Talkeetna, you're out of luck.

Here's the thing: The Talkeetna halibut taco cart was legal. Now, back to the lower 48. Denver, Colorado, is a city that is beset with problems, not the least of which is Democrat governance. City officials piously pronounce Denver a "sanctuary" jurisdiction, and so their population of illegal aliens has grown almost continually for years now. Some of those illegal aliens, and to be fair, some in the city legally, have shown some enterprise. Denver's Lower Downtown (LoDo) area is a typically gentrified urban district, with restaurants, bars, and shopping.

LoDo also, it seems, has a lot of unlicensed, uninspected food carts. This seems a lot like a public health crisis in the making.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: colorado; denver; foodcarts; illegals
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To: dynachrome

They let illegals get away with uninspected gas hotdog cooking but Denver residents can’t use gas stoves. Not allowed in the peoples republic of Denver


21 posted on 10/25/2026 10:17:33 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: T.B. Yoits
They can switch to microwaves, and can keep the vendor, customers, and passersby warm at the same time.



They can turn the dish on its side to use as a wok and add stir fry to the menu.



22 posted on 10/25/2026 10:56:57 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ASOC

Indeed


23 posted on 10/25/2026 11:24:39 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Hide that before someone comes up with a plan for a heater for the homeless.


24 posted on 10/25/2026 11:26:34 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: dynachrome; MileHi; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


25 posted on 10/25/2026 11:28:06 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: dynachrome

Reminds me some 30 years ago I was exiting the main railway station in Budapest and saw a food cart with a sign that said Amerikai Virsli which basically means American Hot Dogs. For some reason I found it funny and incongruous although I knew it was for the tourist trade.


26 posted on 10/25/2026 11:39:53 AM PDT by xp38
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To: george76

Just no thanks


27 posted on 10/25/2026 11:47:01 AM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: dynachrome
Exploding Hot Dog Carts

I don't think the headline means what they think it means.

-PJ

28 posted on 10/25/2026 12:01:32 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: xp38

I bought a hot dog off a cart in a somewhat remote part of France, it did sort of resemble what a hot dog looks like, but being cart food it was plenty eatable, as street food usually is.


29 posted on 10/25/2026 12:28:51 PM PDT by ansel12 (Quit anthropomorphizing SI computer functions.)
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To: dynachrome

The Democrat mantra…..

“We want poverty for everyone else but us!”


30 posted on 10/25/2026 1:43:01 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: dynachrome

No more hot food at restaurants. Cold food only.

Much safer.

You are welcome, or not: The govt will protect you from all possible hazards.
Except conscription.


31 posted on 10/25/2026 1:58:37 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: drwoof

“how our civilization is declining”
.
Bring back rickshaws and sedan chairs...


32 posted on 10/25/2026 4:49:38 PM PDT by Does so (Book:"The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: PLMerite

LOL


33 posted on 10/25/2026 4:55:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (Ray Epps is free, Brian Cole is rotting in jail. Helluva legacy!)
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To: Does so

OK, OK, maybe I got a little overdramatic there... (Doing that alot, lately...)


34 posted on 10/25/2026 6:56:42 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: dynachrome
The old exploding hot dog cart trick….

Thats the second time I’ve fallen for it this month…


35 posted on 10/25/2026 9:27:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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