Jihad Boys says, "Hold the bacon, by allah!"
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.
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Bacon-wrapped beer chicken is a DIET?
You are my kind of guy!
Well, technically it's not the bacon that's the issue. It's the grilling. And you can't steam bacon.
“but I just say “caveat emptor”, kiss it to God, and enjoy every bite...”
ahhhh, the raw oyster strategy! Works for me!
That’s not the point! The law should be “You can take anything you want into your body. After all, it’s yours, not ours.” and also “A business can sell anything, just as long as the buyer knows exactly what they’re getting.” In other words, there should be not health codes on food vendor carts.
Ansell2, one of these days I’ll figure out how to post pictures, but then again you would probably claim they were photo shopped. I live a couple miles from where some Freeepers had rocks thrown at them at Home Depot.
Jihad Boys says, "Hold the bacon, by allah!"
Gawd I remember those! I have REALLY high cholesterol so I shouldn't eat one, but it's like I told my doctor when he told me I shouldn't eat ribeye steaks: "Somethings ARE worth dying over, Doc".
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