Reply #13: The irony is that this particular line item won't work

[jmowreader]

The whole item calls for a county law requiring all restaurants operating within Cumberland County to serve hot dogs and apple pie.

Fayetteville has four kinds of restaurants: chain eateries, locally-owned fine dining restaurants, locally-owned barbecue restaurants, and locally-owned fast food joints.

The chain eateries won't do it, and any effort to force them to do so falls under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.

The locally-owned fine-dining establishments won't buy hot dogs to sell unless they get wind that Dubya Bush is going to eat there, and then they'll have to so they'll be sure to have something he likes.

The barbecue joints don't serve hot dogs now but most of them have some sort of apple pie. All of them have banana pudding, though, because that's the most popular dessert to go along with Eastern Carolina pulled pork.

The locally-owned fast food joints already have hot dogs and apple pie.

This law will be more full of loopholes than the Internal Revenue Code or the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Code.