Barskey visited by thugs

[AntonLee]

if I were to own a restaurant unlicensed I would, at some point, spend the coin to get myself "Servsafe Certified" and work to those standards.  Lots of people know what "Servsafe" is and how stringent their rules are about food safety procedures.  I went through the training when I was working for Wendy's.

If so, even regular folk could see that while you don't care about government paperwork, you still care about providing a good tasty product and have taken the steps to learn how to keep the food and serve it to a standard that has been shown to keep people safe.  Most food safety problems I've had while at Wendy's were because people weren't following these standards.

Of course, most people who cook at home or for others under the radar might not have this certification, and people don't get sick.  Having it shows that you don't NEED it, but wanted to get it to show your customers that you take seriously the idea that you don't want them getting sick

(as stupid as that sounds, who wants to poison their customers?)

[Tom Sawyer]

Takes away the whole safety part of the gooberments argument... now we are talking about paying fees, and bowing, to the state.

[thinkliberty]

My mom didn't have a license to cook dinner at my house when I was a kid and I ate her food, some how I survived without government protection.   

[cathleeninnh]

I tried looking up the statistics, but the best I could come up with was most food related illness comes from food not prepared at home.  But even most food at home comes thru licensed stores/transport/storage facilities.  Unless you're growing it, it's probably from a licensed facility.  They estimate 5000 people per year die from these types of illnesses.

I have heard that most home kitchens would not pass a health inspections. The risk of eating out is the exposure to many many other's germs and contaminants. Lots of people in the kitchen, not just mom. Lots of food sources and lots of people potentially exposed to one slipup.

Vigilance and training will keep us all healthier.  I will bet that the license just gets you on the health inspection schedule.

[MaineShark]

I have heard that most home kitchens would not pass a health inspections.

I bet most school cafeterias and other government facilities would not, either.

I know where was some hubbub about 15 years ago in a town in Maine when the biology class was told to collect swabs from around the school and attempt to culture them.  Bathrooms had some contamination.  The floors and floor drains in the cafeteria yielded large e. coli colonies.

The "clean" cooking pots, just before lunch was cooked, yielded the worst contamination of any sample.  It literally would have been safer to cook up lunch in the toilets, or to drop food on the floor and then serve it, than to let food touch those pots.

Joe

[Russell Kanning]

all this talk has me running straight to mike's outdoor grill for some gulch cookin

[Terror Australis]

all this talk has me running straight to mike's outdoor grill for some gulch cookin

Throw a shrimp on the barbie for me while youre there

[Russell Kanning]

they get a couple more customers each day because of the government thugs

[John]

My prediction is that the government goons are going to try to make as much of trouble as they can at the Gulch. It will be like any MAFIA gang flexing its muscles. I think this partly because sometimes gangs like to show the scope of their brutality where many others will see and then be frightened into submition. In this case they have 100 Main St. to display their aggressive force.

I also think that some of the "haters" are kind of itching to be on the front line in the "Battle Against Freedom."

I think that the MAFIA gang is going to come down as hard as it can - like a ton off bricks - in a single "surprise" attack.
One guy I talk to thinks that the goons are going to do incremental and ever escalating attacks.

Regardless of how it happens, it will be most interesting to see how our "friends" and "neighbors" respond.
Surly some of these "friends" and "neighbors" have already chosen sides, while others are waiting to see which is the "safe" or "politically correct" side to be on.
Many who claim to love the idea of Liberty & Justice for all yet choose the anti-Freedom side at the Gulch will have all the standard excuses at the ready.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I am craving a Vanzetti's breakfast taco right now. Hold the state, please!

[MaineShark]

they get a couple more customers each day because of the government thugs

Any publicity is good publicity.

I would have stopped by, eventually, but all this talk about the food there has me curious, so I'm going to try and stop by next time I'm in Grafton, to see what all the fuss is about...

Regardless of how it happens, it will be most interesting to see how our "friends" and "neighbors" respond.
Surly some of these "friends" and "neighbors" have already chosen sides, while others are waiting to see which is the "safe" or "politically correct" side to be on.
Many who claim to love the idea of Liberty & Justice for all yet choose the anti-Freedom side at the Gulch will have all the standard excuses at the ready.

It's sad, ain't it?  Statism is doomed to failure; it will collapse on its own, without any help from us.  But some folks insist on dragging it out and making the process as long and bloody as possible...

Joe

[KBCraig]

Meanwhile, an estimated 30,000-50,000 people will be attending the world championship chili cookoff in Manchester this weekend, sampling food prepared by unlicensed vendors using unapproved equipment.

[Russell Kanning]

and buying booze at state owned stores on the interstate
no thugs have visited yet
probably not today .... it is a long long weekend for gov workers
the sympathy customers are tapering off and we are back to the normal friends and occasional visitors
leaf peepers are everywhere

[Lloyd Danforth]

You need to open every day to build a customer base.  Apparently, you need to serve food for like 4 days in a row for the authorities to care.

[Mike Barskey]

You need to open every day to build a customer base.  Apparently, you need to serve food for like 4 days in a row for the authorities to care.

We're open Monday through Friday from 9:00a until 5:00p. We havesigns out front.