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Posted on 02/10/2008 10:11:33 PM PST by traviskicks
Densely packed buildings, well-weathered and decaying, line the corridors of the southeastern section of downtown L.A.'s commercial district. The streets and sidewalks are choked with traffic and people. Spanish names and phrases dominate the signage and snatches of overheard conversations. This is one of those places in the city where it would be easy to convince an outsider that Los Angeles is not functionally a part of the United States. It feels more like a satellite metropolis of Latin America, magically implanted north of the U.S.-Mexico line.
Here, in the middle of the pedestrian traffic rushing by in the Fashion District, on the sidewalk along Los Angeles Street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Elizabeth Palacios has built her business at a blue, beat-up mobile food cart protected from the sun by two bright beach umbrellas. She sells chips, bottled water, canned sodas and, until recently, the beloved but troubled icon of L.A. street food, the bacon-wrapped hot dog.
"I used to clean houses," Palacios says on a warm afternoon. "Then, a year later, I got the chance to work on a carrito. A month later, I started renting one. Four months of doing that, I had enough saved up. I bought a cart. 'What do I have to do?' 'Go around and around, and where there isn't a cart, put yourself there.'"
She did, 18 years ago.
"Back in those days, you didn't use the bacon," she says, indicating the hot dogs that lie unattractively in her golf-cart-like Cushman vehicle.
As she speaks, a customer approaches, peering at her meat bin. "No bacon?"
"No bacon," Palacios sighs apologetically, in accented English. "They don't let me."
She means police and L.A. health-department inspectors, but the customer doesn't need much explanation: He moves on.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
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Watch you’ll see soon they’ll take away Bacon Cheeseburgers from Carl’s Jr.
And un-Islamic to boot. A twofer for government bureaucrats.
Gosh I loathe these politically correct creeps and the way they want to run & legislate our lives.
The article is really poorly written. It seems the problem is with grilling hot dogs on a sidewalk. Boiling and steaming are ok. Yet, when talking to the authorities, we get no explanation for the ban on grilling. Instead, we get a rant about cockroaches in the carts and meat sitting in the sun.
Puzzling evidence
LOL.. takes me back to childhood. made a lengthwise split stuffed it with cheese and then wrapped it in bacon,unbelievable. BFP( before food police)
There must be some third world cesspool where you can go live, be free, and not be bothered by health department regulations. Mexico would probably be a good place to start.
Or the bacon pig which is ground pork around a hot dog, wrapped in bacon and sculpted like a pig.
Now thats my kinda eatin'!
prisoner6
But its a shame we have to give up our beloved country in order to find freedom. I wonder if at some time or another just one of these jerks ever think about what they are doing to this country.
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Violating food codes by putting bacon around hot dogs? Good grief. Call me when the nightmare masquerading as a free nation is gone and my country is back.
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