I know all of you must be going into post-lunch food coma mode, but here is just one more morsel to chew on before you stop pretending to actually be working…It seems an article the C-Ville wrote about a local neighborhood pissed off some residents. One of them sent a letter to the editor, and for some strange reason I think the only place anyone will read it is on cVillain, so, without further ado:
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The C-Ville Weekly covers the testimony of the officer in the Double H farmer case. I had a feeling the media was going overboard with this one. Not only are the farmers getting off with a slap on the wrist, the article explains the officer’s approach (which I think was just) towards these farmers:
“They were playing me for a fool,” he said on the stand, his voice nearly trembling, “by selling some of this meat.”
As the officer described the lead-up to their arrest, he protested his depiction by the media as an overzealous persecutor of the local food movement (“I begged the man to comply,” Lamneck said after the hearing of Bean), recounting the time he spotted the yellow Double H van parked outside Shebeen restaurant and then a body bag being carried inside. After Lamneck stopped in to take a look, he discovered a black market pig.
[Read the rest at The C-Ville Weekly]
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Aqui Es Mexico is a little hole in the wall Mexican / Salvadorian restaurant in Belmont. It hides next to a laundromat and a Mexican grocery store on Carlton Ave. You wouldn’t notice it unless you read about it here or happened to be drunk in midday and stumbled half a mile from Mas (now, that would be pretty difficult considering Mas isn’t open for lunch).
Just tell them cVillain sent you!
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