In CA you probably need to carry a Pulled Pork recipe and an apron or something to show these are for cooking.
Carrying just a baseball bat in your car is a club.
Add a ball and mitt, and you are ball player, who just happened to have a bat handy.
So wrap them in a old apron, they are the badest tool/weapon you could have in your car.
I have some of them and trust me on this, NOBODY would fight you wearing these!