Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
So who is the government "protecting"? The elite diners who volunteer and pay for these dinners? The cooks and waitstaff who work these parties?
Or could it be the government employees who want to justify their own existence?
H. L. Mencken
You know what bothers me about this, that it is illegal...
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Or could it be the government employees who want to justify their own existence?
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.H. L. Mencken
When you saw that news thing about the kid's lemonade stand getting shut down or the news thing about the soup kitchen not allowed to feed the poor...
ReplyDeleteSame thing.
And yes, I suppose that it's government employees and inspectors pushing it, but I think that mostly it's legitimate restaurants who (quite rightly) think that if they have to try to do business within the choking hold of government regulation, then so should everyone else.
Initially, of course, it was some do-gooders dream of protecting the people from bad food and unsanitary kitchens on account of people are too dumb to avoid places that aren't clean and have a reputation for food poisoning.
Also salt.
And large sodas.