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sendero

(28,552 posts)

10. Tell ya what..

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 12:43 PM

Jan 2014

.... I bet I could walk into her kitchen and create a clean/sanitary assessment as a baseline.

Then I bet I could walk into 20 local restaurant kitchens and most of them would not even meet that baseline.

I think people who want to do this should be able to make some sort of disclosure "baked at my home" and let the consumer decide. It's not like the people buying these cupcakes think they are being baked at a Hostess bakery.

It's idiocy.

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11-year-old girl's cupcake business shut down by Madison County officials [View all] The Straight Story Jan 2014 OP

Ordinarily I would think this was overreach YarnAddict Jan 2014 #1

She's conducting a business and should play by the health and safety rules. Shrike47 Jan 2014 #2

get thee to a farmer's market JCMach1 Jan 2014 #3

Depends on local ordinances supernova Jan 2014 #4

As it should be. There is a public health risk involved. Ikonoklast Jan 2014 #5

But her cupcakes only have cute, little germs! FSogol Jan 2014 #7

California relaxed the home baking biz laws last year. displacedtexan Jan 2014 #6

Stupid rule. Buying a bakery, really? LittleBlue Jan 2014 #8

Would you eat dinner at an uninspected restaurant? Ikonoklast Jan 2014 #11

You can inspect someone's kitchen LittleBlue Jan 2014 #12

Anecdote is not data. Ikonoklast Jan 2014 #14

You ignored what I said, which is just a statement of fact LittleBlue Jan 2014 #15

Yeah, I can see the logic of this. She is basically running a business. We would expect RKP5637 Jan 2014 #9

Tell ya what.. sendero Jan 2014 #10

Bingo! 1000words Jan 2014 #17

Oh come on, you know where this one is going, fucking mistletoe all over again Fumesucker Jan 2014 #13

And if one of her custmers gets food poisioning gerogie2 Jan 2014 #16

Sensationalistic news. Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #18