Brickbat: Eat and Run

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Authorities in Venice, Italy, have banned new fast food restaurants including kebab shops and places that sell pizza by the slice. They say they want to "preserve decorum and traditions."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Local authorities have experimented with various measures to manage the number of tourists and make the city more "liveable", including making tourists wait longer at popular vaporetto [water taxi] stops, on top of paying ?6 more than locals for a ride.

Have they looked into building a wall and making the tourists pay for it?

[Rat on a train]

They already have a moat.

[DanO.'s Buttplug]

But deep dish pizza is still allowed, right?

[Libertarian]

In today's "Shaken, Not Stirred" Department:

"Florida woman calls police worried semen in thermos might explode"

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Semen never explodes twice.

[some guy]

They say they want to "preserve decorum and traditions."

And by "decorum" we mean "established restaurants."

[Longtobefree]

by ruling that all new restaurants and food shops in the city's historic centre must ensure at least 70% of their produce is local.

Wait. Exactly how much produce is farmed in Venice? I predict starvation within three months.

[Rat on a train]

Hydroponic beef and chicken are delicious.

[Radioactive]

sky pigs?

[prolefeed]

Sooo, the existing kebab shops and pizza by the slice places now have the equivalent of a taxicab medallion, and can sell their business to someone else for a hefty premium, and charge higher prices in the meantime?

[New Cassandra]

New York Pizza slices ? - fair enough

[RabbitHead]

"Florence has attempted to clamp down on "foreign food" by ruling that all new restaurants and food shops in the city's historic centre must ensure at least 70% of their produce is local."

Why so anti-pasta?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Those I-Ties will do ANYTHING to try and keep Chicago Style out.

[JoseHansen]

We always need to eat fast food in limit. Fast food is not healthy for the body. I try to make healthy and delicious recipes from livre r?gime. The livre r?gime is a diet book with a number of recipes. We always need to eat healthy.