This little bit is quite telling:
An anonymous customer complaint to the county brought health inspectors to the store, who determined its tradition of more than 15 years of offering coffee and doughnuts to customers violated food-handling regulations.
So it wasn't some *health inspector* who happened into the shop and saw an open box of doughnuts on the counter next to the coffee pot, some busybody had to notify the authorities, who apparently had nothing better to do, no meat processing plants to inspect, I guess all the peanut processing spots are okee-dokee as well, no emails in their system demonstrating they are knowingly sending out tainted peanuts, people going to die ... oh no, we have to take care of renegade old-fashioned and jelly-filled. Right.
Do you remember the story of the young girl who was making bologna sandwiches in her kitchen, taking them out to the homeless in her neighborhood so they could at least have something to eat? Gubmint shut her down, she was disallowed her kindness because her kitchen wasn't inspected, she didn't own *proper* equipment, etc. And if I recall my time-line correctly, it was not too long after this episode that the people began getting very sick, a couple of toddlers died I believe, from eating Burger King burgers, a chain who presumably has *proper* equipment, health inspection, rules and regs, etal.
No doughnuts on the counter, as noted up thread, are banks now going to stop putting out the cookies with the customer coffee? Are these places even going to be able to offer coffee any more??
We have long passed the point where common sense reigns.
For 40+ years the women at a Catholic church in my town made soup on Wednesdays to take to the homeless shelter. They all came to the church kitchen to make the soup. City shut it down because they weren’t compliant with health regulations. There have been complaints in this town for years that the health department is arrogant and heavy handed. You can’t even do a good deed anymore.
“We have long passed the point where common sense reigns.”
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You can say that as many times as you like. We pass nitpicking laws to treat people as if they don’t have the brains to prepare their own food and at the same time our absurd clown-in-chief is hell bent on passing a bill that will literally destroy the greatest medical system on Earth. How many millions of lives will that cost?