Comments on: Hot Dog drama redux, plus WaPo stinks it up again. http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/03/13/hot-dog-drama-redux-plus-wapo-stinks-it-up-again/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:33:14 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Blossoms Cometh | Washington D.C. Metblogs http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/03/13/hot-dog-drama-redux-plus-wapo-stinks-it-up-again/comment-page-1/#comment-13401 The Blossoms Cometh | Washington D.C. Metblogs Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:54:17 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/03/13/hot-dog-drama-redux-plus-wapo-stinks-it-up-again/#comment-13401 [...] for lunch would be appreciated, since none of the ladies have my appreciating taste for the curbside vendors and their cuisine. Dinner’s already planned, so fortunately I don’t look like a total incompetant to our [...] [...] for lunch would be appreciated, since none of the ladies have my appreciating taste for the curbside vendors and their cuisine. Dinner’s already planned, so fortunately I don’t look like a total incompetant to our [...]

]]> By: Tiffany Bridge http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/03/13/hot-dog-drama-redux-plus-wapo-stinks-it-up-again/comment-page-1/#comment-13273 Tiffany Bridge Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:55 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/03/13/hot-dog-drama-redux-plus-wapo-stinks-it-up-again/#comment-13273 Come on, don't you know that all reporters are commie pinko liberal freaks who can be easily distracted by a good Big Evil Rich guy vs. Little Dude Just Scrapin' By story? (Though, if that were really the case, then the story should be about these three food distributors using their oligopoly on product AND cart storage to basically intimidate sole proprietor cart vendors into buying their crap, which in turn is at least partially responsible for the fact that we have way too many hot dog vendors and not enough burrito guys.) And now I'm wondering what's to stop the cart vendors from finding alternate ways of meeting the health code requirements... I mean, okay, $900 is a lot, but there's got to be a way to split that cost with the other vendor down the block, no? And is it possible for the vendors to find ways to seal off their carts like the On the Fly people do? I mean, it sounds like the regulation is just that the carts must be cleaned properly AND stored away from rodents, not that they must be cleaned IN the storage place. This is going to bug me. I'm going to spend way too much time researching street vendor requirements now. Come on, don’t you know that all reporters are commie pinko liberal freaks who can be easily distracted by a good Big Evil Rich guy vs. Little Dude Just Scrapin’ By story?

(Though, if that were really the case, then the story should be about these three food distributors using their oligopoly on product AND cart storage to basically intimidate sole proprietor cart vendors into buying their crap, which in turn is at least partially responsible for the fact that we have way too many hot dog vendors and not enough burrito guys.)

And now I’m wondering what’s to stop the cart vendors from finding alternate ways of meeting the health code requirements… I mean, okay, $900 is a lot, but there’s got to be a way to split that cost with the other vendor down the block, no? And is it possible for the vendors to find ways to seal off their carts like the On the Fly people do? I mean, it sounds like the regulation is just that the carts must be cleaned properly AND stored away from rodents, not that they must be cleaned IN the storage place.

This is going to bug me. I’m going to spend way too much time researching street vendor requirements now.

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