{"id":7209,"date":"2012-05-07T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2012-05-07T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:13:30","slug":"solution_ban_seeded_bagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/solution_ban_seeded_bagels.html","title":{"rendered":"Solution: Ban Seeded Bagels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This could rival the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/brooklyn_jumps_shark_steals_sharks_wallet_and_cellphone_then_gives_shark_a_wet_willie_because_of_course_sharks_have_ears_too.html\">War on Brunch<\/a> for municipal stupidity, except I think the Health Department probably just needs more cash for a new campaign against another food additive. I don&#8217;t know how else to interpret the agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/hole_lotta_woe_ZiMZI5vmYZu7KP98sCewkL\">citing a bagel shop for having too many sesame seeds on its floor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Health Department spokeswoman said the bagel shop was cited on Oct. 23, 2011, for &#8220;a heavy accumulation of seeds in the same area that many mouse droppings were found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No mice were detected in an earlier inspection on Aug. 1, 2011, and none were found in the latest inspection on April 5, when B&#038;B was awarded the highest cleanliness grade of &#8220;A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, [the bagel shop owner] and his son [. . .] have invested close to $900,000 in larger stainless steel preparation tables &#8212; in hopes of containing seed fallout &#8212; and an expensive water-filter vacuum to suck up the seeds from the floor.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could rival the War on Brunch for municipal stupidity, except I think the Health Department probably just needs more cash for a new campaign against another food additive. I don&#8217;t know how else to interpret the agency citing a bagel shop for having too many sesame seeds on its floor: A Health Department spokeswoman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,68,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-feed","category-follow_the_money","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}