The Anti-Bake Police of Salem, MA
This year's Christmas grinch comes in the form of Salem Health Agent Joanne Scott and the town government.
They have decided to ban bake sales at schools, churches, and senior centers.
Why?
In the words of Joanne Scott, it's her job "to interpret the food code for the city and she exempts only places serving baked goods within their own closed community, not to the general public." Basically, she has declared that private citizens and their baked goods are not safe for general public consumption.
If you want to have a bake sale, you must purchase a city-issued food permit. As a further condition, all the food must be prepared in a city-licensed kitchen.
It has been heard that when Scott learned about a bake sale at a local senior center, she ordered them to either comply with the proper government authorization or shut down. Since the senior center did not have a kitchen, the bake sale was cancelled.
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A bah humbug to Salem's government for being naughty. What a nice way of being a bake 'Nazi.' I did not realize Christmas cookies and brownies are a threat to public safety.
Maybe we should encourage secret bake sales. Resistance La Cake!!!
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