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And of course finding the assets of a street vendor who's unlicensed would be so very easy... as would finding the person to sue if he weren't licensed.
Good luck with that.
See the difference? Perhaps its that I look at these issues from an urban perspective and when I think of someone selling food on the street, I think of something very different than you do when you picture your neighbor's chicken coops.
Except...that isn't the scenario in this story. This is a long-established resident of a rural area who is selling fruitcakes by word of mouth to customers who are mostly NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS.
County bans Redding man's fruitcake sales : News : Redding Record Searchlight
Having been to Redding, where this incident occurred, i can assure you that if you needed to find Jack Melton for a faulty fruitcake, and sue him, he's in the local phone book.
The thing is...a lot of people in small towns sell items like this to make money on the side. In the south, it's pecans, or boiled peanuts, or fresh-caught seafood, or home grown peaches. In the midwest, where I grew up, it was jam or jelly. My boyfriend's mom sold something like 30 dozen Christmas cookies to neighbors and friends who don't have time to bake them themselves.
This is the sort of commerce that occurs daily in small towns and rural areas, and the government doesn't need to butt into it. This is government solving a problem that didn't exist.
How uncalled for.
Sorry I've been polite to you. Apparently wasted on you.
Go back to being pretend spiritual.... jerk.
Yet over and over we agree on many issues, but no rep?
How uncalled for.
Sorry I've been polite to you. Apparently wasted on you.
Go back to being pretend spiritual.... jerk.
I agree, though he should be forced to remove the sign. Granted in his case not a big deal, the demand for fruitcakes, no matter the quality, is limited. On the other hand, had the sign been for snickerdoodles? Well demand may have made him wealthy and beyond his ability to produce with cleanliness.so it was in a small town neighborhood, where only neighbors would see this small sign in his window and he has ONLY SOLD 10-14 pies a year for the past 10 years?
This was most CERTAINLY a neighborhood thing and should NOT have been banned...even with the small sign in the window for the neighbors to see...
If he harmed anyone, he would NOT have been so hard to find....they pick up the pies at his house, no? They have to walk up to his door and ring his doorbell and ask for a pie......right? Or did he set up a stand on a busy street?
I thoroughly can understand Jillian's point of view if this were some vendor on the corner of 75th street and 21st avenue in Brooklyn....but not in this case.
lol.. sorry about that. fixed now.
Nothing wrong with a little bit of whoring. lol...
I prefer to think about it as a "gentle reminder".
Listen....if he's only selling around the neighborhood, they should leave him alone. Matter of fact, there is a friend of mine named Cody over here in Amarillo. Every Sunday, from 10 until around 1 or 2, he serves breakfast at this little spot he's built out back. There is no permits, he's outside of the city limits, and they can't screw with him, although they've tried. Breakfast is 5 bucks by the way....all you can eat. He makes enough money that way so he doesn't really have to hold down a job.
One of my favorite places to eat in Pittsburgh is in the kitchen/restaurant of a Caribbean lady who serves lunch (curried goat, curried fish, curried chicken, etc.) in Homewood. Delicious, plentiful food. If she EVER served bad food to her customers, her word of mouth business would end in a split second.
There is a difference between transient food vendors with no accountability and people who have a small, word-of-mouth business that relies on local customers. Those places police themselves...they have to.
One of my favorite places to eat in Pittsburgh is in the kitchen/restaurant of a Caribbean lady who serves lunch (curried goat, curried fish, curried chicken, etc.) in Homewood. Delicious, plentiful food. If she EVER served bad food to her customers, her word of mouth business would end in a split second.
There is a difference between transient food vendors with no accountability and people who have a small, word-of-mouth business that relies on local customers. Those places police themselves...they have to.
Alll of those things are already exempt from regulation. That's not what was being talked about here. But you know that. In fact, what we're probably talking about is someone who set up a stand and decided to sell to the public... not his friends, not his neighbors, not his fellow church-goers.
You know I always give you props, but I disagree with you on this one. In a city like NY, you see people selling food on the street all the time. I'm afraid that I prefer knowing that they have to live by certain rules before they can sell food.
You are wrong. Here in NM they have closed down bake sales,popcorn sales and snowcone sales at schools . Spahgetti dinner, pancake breakfast and Posole fund raisers at both schools and churches etc. Unless these items are purchased at a store or restaurant (and not homemade) they are prohibited. The state has recently taken a lot of flack for this, because the schools especially, relied on these funds for childrens activities for the year.
NM is run by a bunch of liberals (corrupt ones at that) and has been for years..
