The War on Lemonade

[Novaheart]

On the bright side, Florida recently passed a law exempting home businesses which prepare food at home for sale up to $15,000 per year from local ordinances.

Sometimes Florida is a very cool place to live.

[Odysseus]

On the bright side, Florida recently passed a law exempting home businesses which prepare food at home for sale up to $15,000 per year from local ordinances.

Sometimes Florida is a very cool place to live.

A law had to be passed that exempted people from selling their own food? No, that doesn't make FL a cool place to live, it makes it a place where the various local ordinances were so out of control that the state had to step in and unscrew what the local soviets were screwing up in the first place.

[noonwitch]

We had planned to sell plates for the benefit of a friend of mine who is up to her neck in medical bills. The plan was to use some large barbeque pits at the city park to cook some pre sold plate and while cooking throw some onions on the fire to attract people at the park and intice them into buying a plate on the spot.

Well, we needed a venders permit, health permits, a permit to use the pits. A waiver for the burn ban. Our goal was to sell maybe 200-300 plates. The cost of the red tape and beauracracy to make this happen? Equivilant to 213 plates. What...the...fuck!

We probably have laws on the books here about that kind of food sales, but luckily, the city of Detroit has better things for their cops to do. Church parking lot BBQ is awesome around here, and I don't think many bother to get permits. I don't see too many lemonade stands in the city, it's not really safe for little kids to do that here.

[Odysseus]

We probably have laws on the books here about that kind of food sales, but luckily, the city of Detroit has better things for their cops to do.

Busting the mayors alone is a full-time job. :D

I don't see too many lemonade stands in the city, it's not really safe for little kids to do that here.

It's tough for little kids to actually build an armored lemonade stand.

[malloc]

Considering the bluest state mentioned in this article is Iowa, I wouldn't be blaming the left for this one.

For something like this, you can't stop at state level and cast a judgement. Even Arizona has it's crazyland, Luis Gijalva's district, (a.k.a. U of A), and these incidents seem to be referring to local ordinances.