{"id":4506,"date":"2018-05-22T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/a-great-hot-sauce-rant-from-2013\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:37:42","slug":"a-great-hot-sauce-rant-from-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/a-great-hot-sauce-rant-from-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Hot Sauce Rant from 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We must never forget how vicious and stupid leftists are. Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0224e03ba2ce200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sriracha\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0224e03ba2ce200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0224e03ba2ce200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Sriracha\" \/><\/a>California Regulators Go After Sriracha Hot Sauce<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Pope Francis recently spoke, quite foolishly, of &quot;unfettered capitalism,&quot; as if there is any such thing in the world.&#0160; A more worthy cynosure of disapprobation is the slide toward unfettered regulation and omni-invasive government spearheaded by presumably well-meaning liberal-fascist nanny-staters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You know things are getting bad when they come after your hot sauce.&#0160; An Asian restaurant without Sriracha is like, what?&#0160; A house without a fireplace?&#0160; Coffee without caffeine?&#0160; A man without balls?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You see, if these food fascists can go after Sriracha on the ground that it is a raw food, then Tabasco sauce, that marvellous Louisiana condiment from Avery Island, that undisputed&#0160; king of the hot sauces,&#0160; recognized as such by true connoisseurs all across this great land, that&#0160;<em>sine qua non<\/em>&#0160;of fine dining, and the criterion that separates, in point of the prandial, the&#0160; men from the candy-mouthed girly-men, and which is also a raw food&#0160; &#8212; then, I say, Tabasco sauce is in danger, a state of affairs the only appropriate remedy to which would be of the Second Amendment variety, if I may be permitted a bit of holiday hyperbole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">David Tran, founder of Huy Fong Foods, fled communist Viet Nam to come to our shores for freedom&#0160; and a chance at self-reliance and economic self-determination .&#0160; Unfortunately, the successors of commies, the leftists of the Democrat Party, may drive Tran out of California into a friendlier environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">When they came for the soda, you did nothing because you don&#39;t drink the stuff.&#0160; When they came for the Sriracha, you did nothing because you didn&#39;t know what the hell it was.&#0160; But if they come after Tabasco sauce and you do nothing, then you deserve to be shot &#8212; figuratively speaking of course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Story&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/21\/california-regulators-attempt-to-kill-sr\/print\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must never forget how vicious and stupid leftists are. Enjoy! &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. California Regulators Go After Sriracha Hot Sauce Pope Francis recently spoke, quite foolishly, of &quot;unfettered capitalism,&quot; as if there is any such thing in the world.&#0160; A more worthy cynosure of disapprobation is the slide toward unfettered regulation and omni-invasive government spearheaded by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/a-great-hot-sauce-rant-from-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Great Hot Sauce Rant from 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}