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Title: La Jolla hardware store forced to stop giving away free popcorn
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KGTV San Diego
URL Source: https://www.10news.com/news/health- ... re-to-stop-giving-away-popcorn
Published: May 22, 2018
Author: Zac Self
Post Date: 2018-05-22 04:32:15 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2827
Comments: 16
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- A La Jolla hardware store is being forced to remove their popcorn machine they say was used to give the buttery treat to customers for free over the last 25 years. According to a food inspection report, the Meanley and Son Hardware on the 7700 block of Girard was investigated for serving popcorn without a permit. "Everybody has had fun with this until now, but we have to obey the law," said co-owner Bob Meanley. One of the store's owners says the inspection happened after someone complained. A customer reportedly saw another person reach into the popcorn machine barehanded. "I’m sorry we can’t continue with the popcorn, but we’ll do it with everything else," added Meanley. In the report, the inspector said the small Gold Medal brand popcorn maker was seen in use and with “popped popcorn prepared.” The report forces the hardware store to stop making popcorn and to remove the popcorn machine from the building. If the shop wants to give away popcorn, according to the health department, they’ll have to go through the permitting process. A process which will also legally require that the store install three compartment sinks. The store says staff regularly cleaned the machine and refilled it with popcorn throughout the day for customers to enjoy. The hardware shop has an extensive history in La Jolla. The store was opened in 1948 when the niece of Ellen B. Scripps along with her husband and son established the business.
Poster Comment: ...serving (free) popcorn without a permit.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Crazy. Local Rural King store has a machine, and supplies free popcorn to customers. They have a scoop, and bags. Customers love it. If someone came in and complained, or put bare hands into it, customers here would very likely kick their ass.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
...serving (free) popcorn touched and handled by strangers. Some people objected. Given that this happened in California, God knows what was on their hands.
Ours does here too.
No one was forcing the Gladys Kravitzes to eat it.
Ours does here too. Some of the bars here serve free popcorn - why anyone would object is beyond me. And extorting a business to apply for a permit for FREE popcorn is completely insane.
My small town in the woods has a hardware store that's been giving away popcorn in little bags for over 30 years, fresh-popped right there. I hope the Big Stupid Government nazis don't notice it. In fact, when I moved there 25 years ago, the hardware had fresh-popped popcorn, but the 90-year-old movie theater (formerly burlesque) didn't - the cheap owner bought those giant prepopped bags. So we went to the hardware store for the good popcorn. About 10 years ago, the theater finally caved in and started popping their own; they got tired of smuggling and no sales of popcorn.
So YOUR "solution", of course, wasn't to put up signage and keep customers out of the machine (like our hardware store) - you'd call in the stormtroopers to obliterate it as well. Screw you. Humans have survived a long time without totalitarian control freaks like you. Government parasites exist only because we did so.
Forcing? No. But they weren't being honest, were they? I would settle for a warning sign attached to the popcorn machine stating that other customers have been touching and handling the food barehanded and that diseases may be present. That's the Libertarian way, right? Now, Gladys Kravitz can make a fully informed decision.
How about that? I posted before I read yours and my solution was the same.
If I misinterpreted your comment, then I apologize to you. Still unclear, but there you go.
I can accept either outcome. A license is required. Others have them. He should, too. If that's objectionable or too onerous, then petition the city council to repeal the ordinance. On the other hand, if we are to do away with the popcorn ordinance, then a warning sign should be posted so the consumer has all the information.
And extorting a business to apply for a permit for FREE popcorn is completely insane. " Agree !!! Maybe the patrons/customers should kick the shit out of the health dept guy !
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) AMERICA! Designed by geniuses. Now run by idiots.
If I knew you were eating from it, I’d piss all over my hands... then dig my paws around all that FREE popcorn. Hopefully nobody notices that I don’t eat from it after I scoop a bowl out.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
You're a sicko.
My filthy hands contaminating your popcorn, is good for your immune system. You can’t walk around living in a safe space sterilized bubble, you sheep.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Just keep your dirty air of hands out of the popcorn then no warning sign needed.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
...serving (free) popcorn without a permit.
#3. To: Stoner (#1)
Local Rural King store has a machine, and supplies free popcorn to customers.
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
Some people objected.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Fred Mertz, Stoner (#3)
Local Rural King store has a machine, and supplies free popcorn to customers.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: misterwhite (#2)
...serving (free) popcorn touched and handled by strangers.
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
No one was forcing the Gladys Kravitzes to eat it.
#9. To: Hank Rearden (#7)
So YOUR "solution", of course, wasn't to put up signage and keep customers out of the machine (like our hardware store)
#10. To: misterwhite (#9)
#11. To: Hank Rearden (#10)
If I misinterpreted your comment ...
#12. To: Deckard (#5)
" why anyone would object is beyond me.
#13. To: Deckard (#5)
#14. To: GrandIsland (#13)
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
#16. To: misterwhite (#2)
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