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Title: Single Mom Charged with Multiple Crimes, Faces a Year in Jail for Participating in Facebook Food Group
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fo ... -facebook/#mef0FjtsqwkxvbF6.99
Published: Nov 7, 2016
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2016-11-07 10:45:55 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2327
Comments: 13
Stockton, CA — A single mother of six is now facing down the possibility of being kidnapped by the state and thrown in a cage, away from her children, for a year — for participating in a voluntary Facebook food group. For years, Mariza Reulas and others enjoyed the fine recipes and food trading in the social media group called 209 Food Spot on Facebook. According to Reulas, this group was a place where people could share recipes, organize potlucks, and, on occasion, sell some of their food to willing neighbors. “Somebody would be like, ‘Oh I don’t have anything to trade you but I would love to buy a plate,’ like they’d be off of work,” Reulas explained to FOX 40. However, in the ostensible land of the free, selling a food dish to a willing buyer is akin to rape — or, considering the 3-month sentence of convicted rapist Brock Turner — selling food is far worse than rape, according to the state. The incident began last December when someone contacted Reulas to purchase a dish of her highly desired homemade ceviche. So, like she always did, Reulas made her signature dish and prepped it for who she thought was a willing customer. However, this was no customer — it was an undercover agent from San Joaquin County. According to court documents, authorities squandered taxpayer dollars in an elaborate undercover sting operation to bust members of 209 Food Spot — because they did not pay the government the proper extortion fees, via permitting, to sell their food. Reulas, along with a dozen other entirely innocent community food traders, was targeted by authorities and charged with two misdemeanor crimes — operating a food facility and engaging in business without a permit — for trading homemade dishes. Everyone else who was charged pleaded down to three years of probation. However, Reulas, rightfully so, refuses to be bullied by these bureaucratic thugs and is taking her case to trial. “I don’t write the laws, I enforce them. And the legislature has felt that this is a crime,” said San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Kelly McDaniel in the typical and equally repugnant callous bureaucratic fashion. According to FOX 40, McDaniel says selling any food not subject to health department inspection puts whoever eats it in real danger, not to mention it undercuts business owners who do get permits to make their food. “Food prepared in a facility that does not inspect it creates a risk to the public,” said McDaniel. However, Reulas was not operating a restaurant here. She was not distributing mass quantities of food nationwide. No, she was trading, and occasionally selling, a single dish at a time to people who loved food as much as she does. “When they talk about potential jail time for this, what goes through your mind?,” asked FOX40. “My kids,” responded Reulas. As FOX 40 reports, without a father in their life, Reulas says the thought of having to leave her kids scares her. Every court appearance takes a toll on her youngest son, six-year-old Justice. “The night before (court) he always asks like are you going to come back?” said Reulas. Reulas’ case comes on the heels of another ridiculous example of statist food control. Over the weekend, the Free Thought Project brought you the story of a Kansas City charity who was forced to bleach and throw away thousands of pounds of food destined for the plates of 3,000 homeless people. Because the state cares more about ‘just doing their job’ than they do about helping anyone or allowing a single mother of 6 to make a couple of extra dollars selling ceviche, good people starve while others are deprived of their freedom.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Ceviche is made with raw fish. It's not cooked. Getting it from a stranger is like buying sushi at a gas station Quik-Mart.
Because she wants to kill her customers. People who could only get government jobs must save us from her, because most people cooking at home kill people! Stop being such a government-worshipping asshole; people get along fine without Big Stupid Government 99% of the time. This is well within being one of those times.
No more than the gas station Quik-Mart does. But would you buy your unregulated sushi there? "people get along fine without Big Stupid Government 99% of the time." Uh-huh. And if her customer got food poisoning and racked up an $80,000 hospital bill, who would pay it? WE WOULD you f**king condescending prick. Yeah, keep the government out of our lives -- -- until we inevitably f**k up and insist on their helping us ... for free, of course. Well excuse me if, as a taxpayer, I try to minimize my cost by implement a few basic rules and regulations.
Depends. Is there a sushi chef behind the counter? Think twice before you answer; I owned a sushi bar for 14 years. The health department dumbshits were the usual clueless government buffoons when it came to anything beyond potato salad and cheeseburgers.
Sure. He makes a mean temaki and he will also change your oil.
Then you know full well the dangers of serving raw fish. Geez Louise.
Not where I live, it isn't. It's made with cooked fish, and/or cooked shrimp.
Ceviche is made with raw fish. When my wife and I were in Belize, our guide took us out in a small boat. He brought with him a container with lime juice, some celery, onions, and bell pepper. At lunch time he dove into the water and brought up some conch shells. He broke them open, diced everything, mixed it up, and we had the best ceviche ever. Not cooked.
As is typical, your yellow journalism, hereinafter asshole, source lies to claim, No, she faces misdemeanor charges for operating an unregulated food business without a license. She faces misdeameanor charges in a court. Selling improperly prepared raw fish can be deadly. Selling it as part of an unregulated business is unlawful and tax evasion. The Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition. In its technical sense, ceviche refers to the method of preparation using an acidic marinade, and not to specific ingredients. So, in The New Professional Chef, 6th Ed., by the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) [the other CIA] at page 942-43, one finds "Ceviche" of Artichoke Hearts, Charred Tuna and Scallop Ceviche, and Ceviche of Snapper. At page 942, the Culinary Institute of America comments: [no link, quoting from my copy of the book] Specifically, on charred Tuna and Scallop Ceviche, the Culinary Institute of America comments, "Rub tuna steak with oil and sear in a hot, well-seasoned pan (it should resemble a steak cooked black and blue, still raw on the inside). Some ceviche ingredients are seared, not cooked, and remain raw on the inside. http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/ceviche/ The acid from the limes and lemons change the structure of the proteins in the fish, essentially “cooking” the fish without using heat. Jackass is invited to produce a court document that says what asshole says it does: that authorities squandered taxpayer dollars. Ruelas is guilty on the face of the evidence. The unlawful activity is admitted by asshole to have been committed. Of course, asshole commits his usual linguistic abortion, "for trading homemade dishes." When selling a product for cold, hard cash, that does not fall under the general definition of trading homemade dishes, unless asshole believes that federal reserve notes are homemade dishes.
Then it's not ceviche, any more than Taco Bell is Mexican food.
No health inspector? Didn't you assume you were going to die?
Where I live, the people speak Spanish, and ceviche is cooked, and it is called ceviche. I've never heard of it being served raw but maybe in the coast or on a boat where it can be prepared immediately, maybe raw preparation works. But where I live, in commercial establishments that can't keep live seafood, it is cooked.
We watched as he made it fresh on the boat. We weren't concerned. Unlike our last evening on Zanzibar when we decided to check out the local vendors who cooked the catch-of-the-day on the beach. Big mistake. There we both assumed we were going to die. Then we were afraid we weren't going to.
"when someone contacted Reulas to purchase a dish of her highly desired homemade ceviche."
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
(Edited)
Getting it from a stranger is like buying sushi at a gas station Quik-Mart.
#3. To: Hank Rearden (#2)
"Because she wants to kill her customers."
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
(Edited)
No more than the gas station Quik-Mart does. But would you buy your unregulated sushi there?
#5. To: Hank Rearden (#4)
"Depends. Is there a sushi chef behind the counter?"
#6. To: Hank Rearden (#4)
"I owned a sushi bar for 14 years."
#7. To: misterwhite (#1)
Ceviche is made with raw fish. It's not cooked.
#8. To: Pinguinite (#7)
"Not where I live, it isn't. It's made with cooked fish, and/or cooked shrimp."
#9. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#0)
(Edited)
• Faces a Year in Jail for Participating in Facebook Food Group
• A single mother of six is now facing down the possibility of being kidnapped by the state and thrown in a cage
• in the ostensible land of the free, selling a food dish to a willing buyer is akin to rape
ceviche a South American dish of marinated raw fish or seafood, typically garnished and served as an appetizer.
Ceviche is a dish made by marinating raw fish in a mixture of lime juice and seasonings. ... The fish for ceviche must be extremely fresh and handled with the utmost concern for food safety. Keep the fish as cold as possible and clean and sanitize work surfaces and knives thoroughly before and after use.
The first time I made ceviche, I was amazed. I could actually see the lemon and lime juice turning the color of the fish from translucent pink to opaque white.
• According to court documents, authorities squandered taxpayer dollars in an elaborate undercover sting operation to bust members of 209 Food Spot — because they did not pay the government the proper extortion fees, via permitting, to sell their food.
• Reulas, along with a dozen other entirely innocent community food traders, was targeted by authorities and charged with two misdemeanor crimes — operating a food facility and engaging in business without a permit — for trading homemade dishes.
#10. To: Pinguinite (#7)
Not where I live, it isn't. It's made with cooked fish, and/or cooked shrimp.
#11. To: misterwhite (#8)
When my wife and I were in Belize, our guide took us out in a small boat. He brought with him a container with lime juice, some celery, onions, and bell pepper.
Outdoor food - yikes! Death on a stick.
#12. To: misterwhite, Hank Rearden (#8)
Ceviche is made with raw fish.
#13. To: Hank Rearden (#11)
"No health inspector? Didn't you assume you were going to die?"
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