>>>>>>The locals would not eat his ribs unless they >>>>>>were boiled first!

That's one way to make the folks here boil their ribs. If they buy 'em,
boil em!

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> "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:
>> > wrote in message
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>> > Yeah, very surprised by the complexity...
>> >
>> > I was working in VA (just outside DC) a few years ago. There was a farm
>> > near my office complex. One of the farmers would smoke a large pig
>> > every day in a homemade smoker he kept right by the road. At lunch
>> > time, we would all go over there to get $5.00 plates of pretty decent
>> > Q. By 2:30 he would sell all the meat and always had a pretty
>> > impressive wad of cash (income tax free).
>> > When I lost my job, I stopped in for my last meal and thought to myself
>> > "..this guy with a 3rd grade education has the best gig in town and
>> > sleeps much better than me....".
>> >
>> If you read the history of barbecue, there were many people that did that
>> sort of thing. Probably the best food you can get. Today, they'd take
>> you to court and take away the family farm in court costs and fines.
>>
>> Check out the requirements for a catering truck to comply with all the
>> laws.
>
> Here in Los Angeles, the requirements are brutal, not only for the truck
> but for your base of operations. While they're called 'Roach Coaches', if
> they find on roach, dead or alive, or one rat turd, you're shut down. I
> forget what the re-inspection to let you operate again costs, but it's
> much
> more thorough, if that's possible.
>
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