Lent will never be the same.
We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.
The “Department of Food” is an inevitability if the political class is to achieve total dominance over the population.
I’ve been to more than my share of put luck dinners. Many times I didn’t serve myself from a particular dish simply because I had already visited the home of whoever prepared the dish.
Just imagine what can be accomplished with 250,000 more bureaucrats! I can’t wait for Obama’s stimulus plan to kick in, can you? /s/
Lent will never be the same.
That's because Lent is a Christian celebration and not one for "Zer0" or his pals and family.
Food Police - Gardening ping
I would not buy a pie or any home prepared food from somebody I didn’t know. For all I know their “children”, meaning pets, have free run of the kitchen. I’ve seen it. No thank you.
On the other hand it should be up to the consumer, not some nanny government agency.
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In my state, Michigan, wild game dinners are common fundraisers at sportsman's clubs.
Fish and game cooked by members, served to the public.
Money collected is considered donations because wild game can't be bought or sold.
> Marlene Kislock, head of the kitchen, said the cooked pirogi were left out to cool and forgotten. They were later thrown out, she said.
Crikey! What a shameful waste! In my household there’s nothing much better than a plate of cold leftover pirogi for a midnite snack. Even if they were a day old...
Jolly bureaucrats! Why couldn’t the women just have a waiver form signed by the buyers of the pies, then everyone ought to be happy, no?
Well..since the pies couldn’t be served because of the overzealous food inspector, perhaps the guests could express their opinions by hitting the inspector with about 25 pies!
There’s a certain justice in that.
But during recession they lay off police and fire but keep the chuch kitchen inspectors.
They find this a problem....but miss the contaminated peanuts....or imported veggies???
Sheeeeeshhhhhh.....
They did this where I live and we did bake everything in the kitchen for one thing and then we decided to ignore them and just personally told everyone that they should bake them at home and then we’d cut them and wrap them in the church kitchen. Some busybody from our own church ratted us out so we contacted our local state politicians and now we are able to do it. I don’t know how long it will last but they wouldn’t even let you have bake sales!
I think it is big business who is afraid you aren’t going to be buying from them but the stoopid idiots get our money for the ingredients.
Sad to see my beloved hometown, and the church of my childhood, in the news for such a rancid reason.
The idiot local government decided that homemade food donated to the homeless shelter could not be accepted.
So our youth group had to throw the turkey they had bought and cooked in the dumpster.
As soon as the officials were gone, the homeless folks went dumster diving for that turkey...
Sheez. Government is an A@@.
We can expect more and more of this with a Democratic administration in power as they ramp up government intervention on private citizens, always all in the name of safety and protection, but really to control every aspect of our lives.
Frankly, I would rather take my chances with zero government intervention. People are quite capable of self correction; people are quite capable of following standards to support hygiene, cleanliness, to produce healthy and safe foodstuffs. There are already plenty of laws around to follow up if a customer is hurt by someone's carelessness.
The women should have announced to the visitors they couldn’t sell the pies but they could give them away. I’ll bet if people had known the whole story they would have eaten the free pie and donated more money than if it had been sold.