hot dog hat law

Please don’t let this become law.

I just got an email from HDP reader Mike Saffreti. Mike tipped me off to a new piece of legislation being proposed that will require mobile food vendors to wear hats shaped like the foods that they serve from their carts.

The purpose of this bill is to allow the food buying public to see what is for sale from great distances. Consumer advocates say that customers should not have to walk more than 100 feet in order to find out what foods are offered at each street vending cart.

It’s just one more piece of legislation in an already over-legislated society. I say WE DON’T NEED THIS! In fact, I’M MAD AS HELL!

However from what Mike tells me, this new law is bundled inside a much larger bill whose purpose is to limit the amount of creme filling inside pre-packaged snack foods. It’s being touted as one more tool in the fight against obesity.

Unfortunately that means it’s almost sure to pass – unless we fight back now!

What does this mean to you?

Most of my readers are hot dog slingers and as such we are lucky. There are a couple of companies that already make hot dog shaped hats. If this law does pass, we won’t have a compliance issue.

My real concern is for the shave ice and sno-cone vendors.

There are no sno-cone hats that I am aware of.

In order to comply with the new law these poor souls would be forced to wear actual sno-cones on their heads.

Imagine the brain freeze that these folks will incur!

The bill’s sponsors responded that brain freeze is temporary and does not cause lasting damage. They actually had the gall to tell sno-cone vendors to “just breathe deeply through your mouth during your entire shift.”

The blatant lack of concern for our frosty friends is simply insufferable. It leaves a baaaad taste in my mouth.

What can you do to help?

Slingers, it’s time to stand up not only for our rights, but for the rights of our brothers-in-ice.

I need you to leave a comment at the end of this post telling the bill’s sponsors what you really think about their b___s___ legislation!

You may use a false name when commenting to protect your identity.

Thank you for your support Slinger!

-Steve

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