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The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It's Illegal
LA Times ^ | 2/6/08 | DANIEL HERNANDEZ

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: baconwrappedhotdog; hotdogs; illegals
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Hot dog socialism. :)
1 posted on 02/10/2008 10:11:35 PM PST by traviskicks
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Last May, she was sentenced to 45 days in county jail for repeatedly violating food codes.



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2 posted on 02/10/2008 10:15:18 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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3 posted on 02/10/2008 10:19:08 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: traviskicks
RIP Bacon ~ ? BC - 2008 AD ~


4 posted on 02/10/2008 10:19:18 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: traviskicks

Watch you’ll see soon they’ll take away Bacon Cheeseburgers from Carl’s Jr.


6 posted on 02/10/2008 10:23:33 PM PST by Eyes Unclouded (We won't ever free our guns but be sure we'll let them triggers go....)
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To: traviskicks
This guy's fault:
7 posted on 02/10/2008 10:26:37 PM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: traviskicks

And un-Islamic to boot. A twofer for government bureaucrats.


8 posted on 02/10/2008 10:26:50 PM PST by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
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To: traviskicks
So much for being "The land of the Free..."

Gosh I loathe these politically correct creeps and the way they want to run & legislate our lives.

9 posted on 02/10/2008 10:28:37 PM PST by prophetic
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Hot dog socialism. :)
Bacon (its so good :), It's a honorary vegetable. :D
10 posted on 02/10/2008 10:30:55 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: dayglored
That's exactly why they outlawed it.

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.

11 posted on 02/10/2008 10:31:04 PM PST by Dianna
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Puzzling evidence


12 posted on 02/10/2008 10:34:18 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dayglored

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)


13 posted on 02/10/2008 10:34:42 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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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.


14 posted on 02/10/2008 10:38:42 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Well maybe she could try the cheese stuffed deep fried bacon burger made of ground bacon...

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

15 posted on 02/10/2008 10:45:07 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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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.


16 posted on 02/10/2008 10:45:17 PM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: dayglored

Oooooooooooooooooooooo

Looks good


17 posted on 02/10/2008 10:52:00 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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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.


18 posted on 02/10/2008 10:52:29 PM PST by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: traviskicks
I almost died once puking my gut’s out until I was severely dehydrated - at least it felt like I was dieing. all from a little street food. There are laws to protect the populace from tainted food for a good reason.
19 posted on 02/10/2008 10:53:21 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: prisoner6
The sausage and bacon house:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/meat-house-can.php?page=4
20 posted on 02/10/2008 10:56:31 PM PST by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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