As a Bacon Lover, Celts Diehard, Jilted Manny Fan, and Randy Newman Hater, So Easy to Say ‘I Hate LA’ (Bacon-Wrapped Bleg Included)

Posted by Baylen on Aug. 19, 2008

Reason’s Katherine Mangu-Ward blogged yesterday about the latest and saddest chapter in Los Angeles’s war against crispy-food vendors. I’ll first crib her quoting of LAist:

At Hollywood and Highland last Friday night, police cracked down on the little ladies with the cars selling those street favorites. All the food and all their equipment were confiscated and trashed.

And then M-W’s own words.

An LAist photographer was there, and he caught a series of horrifying images, including the one above, which depicts illegal hot dog carts being fed into the gaping maw of the dumpster truck. This is a cruel variation on the proper order of things, which should include grilled bacon dogs being fed into the gaping maws of drunk idiots.

She writes that “[t]he story has everything: class warfare, racism, protection rackets, relish, and mustard.” What–no catsup?

All kidding aside, I can think of no better (nor more infuriating) example of why I went to law school than this latest travesty of justice–that and virtually everything the city of Los Angeles has recently done to kill its reputation as a place for yummy food.

And now, a bit of a bleg. I propose a “race for the cure[d meat]” fundraiser to support a legal campaign by the bacon-dog vendors…. An illicit-bacon-dog eating competition, with bets placed, prizes awarded, and the house shipping its cut out to bacon-dog lawyers on the left coast. Any DC-area venue and/or bacon + dog sponsors out there?

More coverage from Crispy on the LA bacon dog debacle here.

Update: The malaise spreads as San Francisco cracks down on taco trucks.

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