Posted on 05/22/2024 10:19:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Though this ruling can feel deeply unserious, it has major consequences for one small business.
What, exactly, defines a sandwich? It's a question people have been arguing over since the dawn of time. But, at least according to one Indiana judge, tacos fall into whatever that definition may be.
In May, Allen County Superior Court Judge Craig Bobay ruled that "tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches." Though this ruling can feel deeply unserious, it has major consequences for one small business that was hoping to open a restaurant in the city of Fort Wayne.
As the Associated Press reported, the legal battle was brought to the courts by Martin Quintana, nearly three years ago after he attempted to open a second location for his restaurant The Famous Taco. However, his plans were thwarted due to the fact that he agreed to a written commitment with the local neighborhood association that limited the space to a restaurant that is "a sandwich bar-style restaurant whose primary business is to sell 'made-to-order' or 'subway-style' sandwiches," the AP reported. And Quintana's taco spot, to the association, didn't fit the bill. He asked for the agreement to be amended to include his made-to-order tacos, burritos, and "Mexican-style food items," which they denied. So, in 2022, Quintana sued the Fort Wayne Plan Commission, and the court finally ruled in his favor last week.
Crispy Pork Belly Tacos with Pico de Gallo Interestingly, Judge Bobay added that the plan commission was in the right to deny an amendment, but the request was never needed in the first place, as tacos are sandwiches anyway, the Journal Gazette reported.
"The Court agrees with Quintana that tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches, and the original Written Commitment does not restrict potential restaurants to only American cuisine-style sandwiches," the ruling read.
"I'm glad this thing is over. We are happy. When you have a decision like this the only thing you can be is happy. We're excited," Quintana told the AP about the ruling.
The Best Wines to Pair with Fish Tacos The original agreement, the Gazette added, already permitted restaurants that served "made-to-order Greek gyros, Indian naan wraps, or Vietnamese banh mi" if they complied with the other conditions in the agreement, so we can safely assume those were considered sandwiches, too.
So, what else is a sandwich? Well, even we wouldn't dare to draw a boundary. After all, Padma Lakshmi and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg both said hot dogs are sandwiches, and who would argue with them? So, really, a sandwich is as limitless as your imagination.
It doesn't
Romaine or iceberg?
Tortillias are primitive bread
Next thing you know, they’ll say that ketchup is a vegetable.
Hey, if the SCOTUS can, via a court decision, redefine the word, “marriage”, I suppose the word “sandwich” is fair game. 🤣
The world is certainly getting, um, interesting.
And a pizza is just an open faced Italian sandwich.
how do you say “make me a sammich” in spanish?
Yep. You nailed the core issue here.
To a vampire, you’re just soup in a bag.
Is some other food ‘sandwiched’ together, wrapped in other food?
It’s an abstraction on what you’re doing, regardless of if it is bread or taco (soft or crunchy). Same function. So from a legal perspective I’d have to say they’re the same.
Maybe the other question is why is this even a question for a business? I assume there’s a tax on if you’re selling entree’s or sandwiches and the language in the law only says ‘sandwich’...which I think is dumb anyway.
“There is no bread in tacos, burritos or enchiladas.”
A flour tortilla is unleavened bread.
Even waitresses can be a sandwich. Just ask Kennedy and Dodd.
lol. Hated that song
Bibb. :)
When it is actually a fruit sauce. :)
A sandwich is a food item intended to be eaten by hand consisting of a messy filling with a carb surround to protect the hands from the filling.
Now make me a sammich!
As it happens, you are correct. A Conde(count, comte) is the equivalent of an English Earl.
One of the earliest known sandwich-eaters was Hillel the Elder, a rabbi and scholar who was born in Babylon and lived in Jerusalem during the first century B.C. The Haggadah, a Jewish text read during the annual Passover Seder, recounts how Hillel made sandwiches using Paschal lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened matzoh bread.
Source here
Wondrous place, the internet...
Animal, mineral, or vegetable?
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In 2016, as Trump took office, it stood at over 95,000 pages. By the end of his second year in 2017, he slashed it, as he said he would, down to 61,067 pages. The next year it jumped to 66,778, but when the Leftistst/Deep State cut off his arms and legs and tied him down in a Lilliputian fashion it began to shoot back up to Obama levels.
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When we have a weaponized government that selectively enforces or ignores laws as it sees fit, we are in a terrible situation, where the Beria-like Statists can take any man (J6 Protestors) and find an appropriate crime.
I have decided I am going to speak out at my town meetings in my extremely Leftist state/locality now, every chance I get, because this legislation is used to push their Leftist agendas, reward their ideological friends, and punish their ideological foes. To them, there is nothing so small or insignificant that legislation cannot be proposed and passed on.
In this article, it stated "...However, his plans were thwarted due to the fact that he agreed to a written commitment with the local neighborhood association that limited the space to a restaurant that is "a sandwich bar-style restaurant whose primary business is to sell 'made-to-order' or 'subway-style' sandwiches," the AP reported..."
"Local neighborhood association". I can imagine that "association", people who, when given power over another person's livelihood is like an elixir for them when they get a chance to flex their muscles.
This is seen at EVERY level of government.
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