County Bureaucrats Kill Off Complementary Crullers

Ventura County, California, health inspectors tell local hardware shop to end its 15-year tradition of offering free coffee and donuts to customers.

The store owners will be graciously permitted to resume the tradition if they install stainless steel sinks with hot and cold running water and a "prep kitchen" to more sanitarily handle the bought donuts and coffee maker.

Comments

[SpongePaul]

UGH!

[Bob #2]

Solution: just claim that you have crullers out for your lunch, but the customers are stealing them. Refuse to prosecute any customers for this "theft."

[Enough About Palin]

Off-topic, but it is Friday (it's a funny):

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....perandSalt

[Solitudinarian]

I guess there ARE some things doughnuts can't do...

[Never Overestimate Us]

"I was a little outraged, to be honest," said Brann, 45. "They were putting this stuff out there out of the kindness of their hearts. They called it their little pink box of love. I thought it had to be a joke."

And the contents of that box were very sweet.

[anonymous]

I'm not sure that's glaze on your donut...

[Ziggy]

*OFF TOPIC* About a year ago in a reason magazine there was an ad on the top 10 obstacles to drug legalization or something similar.
It was a top 10 list and listed the DEA/Police opposition to it, because of the funding they would lose.

If anyone could help me finding out what issue it was or who made the ad...

Thanks

[Ziggy]

my memory is obviously failing so it might not be an ad but it was a top ten list and most "likely" an ad...

[heller]

Fucking STUUUUUUUUUPID.

[2yellowdogs]

There is no end the the stupidity and ass-covering potential of government regulators. But you know that.

[John Thacker]

OTOH, horribly stupid governmental action here.

Yet on the other, not that depressing for a Radley Balko post.

[?]

anonymous customer complaint

+

remedy: hire a mobile food preparation service or in some cases a coffee service

=

list of suspects

[Radley Balko]

So Katherine, Moynihan and I had a $1 bet about how many comments it would take for one of you perverts to take note of the " little pink box of love" line from the article.

I had the over at 4. We're very disappointed in all of you.

[Episiarch]

Well, we'd have to RTFA article to notice that, Radley. You should have known that we wouldn't. We're very disappointed in all three of you for assuming we would.

[Fluffy]

Yeah, dude, we're here for YOU, not some a-hole who writes for the VC Star.

[Episiarch]

Stop kissing ass, Fluffy. We're very disappointed in you.

[JW]

Holy shit...THEY'RE WATCHING US!

[Warty]

Read, Radley? You severely misoverestimated us. We're all very disappointed in you.

[heller]

Isn't an overestimation already a mis-estimation?

Also, I think the Reason writer want more Reason fan fiction pornography. Will you oblige them Warty?

[BakedPenguin]

Why are you disappointed, Radley? If you had the over, didn't you win the bet?

Some people are never satisfied...

[Calvin Coolidge]

You lose.

[Warty]

...comrade.

[J sub D]

This guy I know's best friend's mother-in-law got sick from one of those complementay donuts.

You can't be too careful.

[Enough About Palin]

FTFA:

"An anonymous customer competitor's complaint to the county brought health inspectors to the store, who determined its tradition of more than 15 years of offering coffee and doughnuts to customers violated food-handling regulations."

FIFY

[Jeff P]

Dammit, what hardware store's comp donuts am I supposed to ritually rub against my genitals now? I have to re-do my WHOLE morning routine...

[Old Mexican]

Ventura County, California, health inspectors tell local hardware shop to end its 15-year tradition of offering free coffee and donuts to customers.

The reason for this overhanded and ridiculous requirement is to look after us, since the State knows best what's good for us whereas we don't . . . the Statists told me so.

[BakedPenguin]

So they're making offering free crullers and coffee illegal. Like any cop is going to write a ticket for that.

[fish]

You think that glaze is sugar?

[heller]

The lice... hate the sugar.

[Dinerboy]

To pick a nit, shouldn't that be "complimentary?" Otherwise, the crullers would be providing beneficial assistance to - oil changes?

[Effin' A]

This happened in California? I'm shocked! Shocked, I say. Whoever could have imagined such a thing coming from Hahafornia.

Fucking idiots. If I were the hardware store owner, I would have had a hard time not telling Herr Inspector to go fuck himself.

[Tim]

What about "medicinal donuts"?

[PR]

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is an underrated movie. Larry doesn't have a single straight line in the whole thing

[PR]

in fact, I don't think he has a single line that advances the plot

[R C Dean]

I want to know how these poor hardware owners are supposed to get any kind of police presence now that the free donuts have been shut down?

They're sitting ducks, man!

[R C Dean]

In the highly unlikely event that I am ever in charge of any law or regulatory enforcement apparat, I will very quickly make it known that anonymous complaints are to be immediately shredded and burned.

[Chrispy]

To be fair, anonymous complaints can be important and perfectly valid, especially when they're leveled against authority. The problem isn't that the complaint was anonymous; the problem is that it was stupid.

[TXLimey]

I read that headline and thought some government entity, somewhere, had actually made a budget cut. Guess I'm just a starry-eyed dreamer.

[Mad Scientist]

I've been to that store on a few occasions and I've never seen any free doughnuts. I would have happily stopped by earlier in the morning if only I had known. Thanks for telling me about it after it's too late, Radley!

[tarylcabot]

Crullers banned? Say it ain't so Radley. I'm not a big donut fan, but crullers rule!

[Warty]

...comrade.

[Warty]

Shit, this is supposed to be a reply to Calvin Coolidge. The spam filter is an Uzbek.

[Paul]

Now let's link to unrelated liberal laments about the loss of community,growing social isolation and nostalgic small-town America...

Ok, that didn't take long.

[John C. Randolph]

A terrorist was spotted in DC carrying a box of doughnuts in the vicinity of the white house. Alert secret service agents wrestled the pastries to the ground.

-jcr

[Mark]

Little pink boxes of love... Doughnut holes... Perverts...

Where's the apple pie ?

[Miguel]

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