{"id":8252,"date":"2013-12-23T06:11:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T06:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/california-regulators-go-after-sriracha-hot-sauce\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T06:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T06:11:54","slug":"california-regulators-go-after-sriracha-hot-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/california-regulators-go-after-sriracha-hot-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"California Regulators Go After Sriracha Hot Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c019b0384806c970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sriracha\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c019b0384806c970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c019b0384806c970d-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Sriracha\" \/><\/a>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;\">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;\">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 <em>sine qua non<\/em> 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 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;\">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;\">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; 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