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demmiblue

(36,743 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:28 AM Jul 2020

Welcome to the Freedom Cafe!




Welcome to the Freedom Cafe! We trust you to make your own choices if you want to wear a face mask. And, in the same spirit of individual liberty, we allow our staff to make their own choices about the safety procedures they prefer to follow as they prepare and serve your food.

We encourage employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom, but understand that some people may be allergic to certain soaps or may simply prefer not to wash their hands. It is not our place to tell them what to do.

We understand that you may be used to chicken that has been cooked to 165 degrees. We do have to respect that some of our cooks may have seen a meme or a YouTube video saying that 100 degrees is sufficient, and we do not want to encroach on their beliefs.

Some of our cooks may prefer to use the same utensils for multiple ingredients, including ingredients some customers are allergic to. That is a cook’s right to do so.

Some servers may wish to touch your food as they serve it. There is no reason that a healthy person with clean hands can’t touch your food. We will take their word for it that they are healthy and clean.

Water temperature and detergent are highly personal choices, and we allow our dishwashing team to decide how they’d prefer to wash the silverware you will put in your mouth.

Some of you may get sick, but almost everyone survives food poisoning. We think you’ll agree that it’s a small price to pay for the sweet freedom of no one ever being told what to do - and especially not for the silly reason of keeping strangers healthy.



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Welcome to the Freedom Cafe! (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2020 OP
Is spitting in assholes food allowed? mercuryblues Jul 2020 #1
They suggest that cooks not spit in food but in the spirit of liberty who are they to say it doesn't LizBeth Jul 2020 #3
Just like CO2 is good for ocean life!!1! Beartracks Jul 2020 #32
There are no assholes... lame54 Jul 2020 #11
To not allow it would be impinging on their 1st Amendment rights Buns_of_Fire Jul 2020 #15
They also have free choice to decide who is an asshole IronLionZion Jul 2020 #19
Excellent hyperbole! Newest Reality Jul 2020 #2
Hyperbole? Cirque du So-What Jul 2020 #5
Oops... Newest Reality Jul 2020 #7
Oh, well done! Superb satire. k&r n/t Laelth Jul 2020 #4
Satire, yes, but it rises above satire to real truth. No freedom is pure. Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #21
KnR Blecht Jul 2020 #6
Touche! sheshe2 Jul 2020 #8
Beautiful, just beautiful. NNadir Jul 2020 #9
Perfect! Nevilledog Jul 2020 #10
Kick dalton99a Jul 2020 #12
I hear they're having a special on the "Does this smell funny to you?" tuna salad. LudwigPastorius Jul 2020 #13
Genius! Well done. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #14
It really is a Board of Health inspection issue bucolic_frolic Jul 2020 #16
NRA wlecome! The Freedom Caf is an open-carry family establishment. DFW Jul 2020 #17
Excellent! PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #18
Obviously, and well done. TryLogic Jul 2020 #28
... betsuni Jul 2020 #20
I saw this on FB! Hilarious. Thanks for posting it. ancianita Jul 2020 #22
Oh hell yeah! intrepidity Jul 2020 #23
Compromise! - So the bars can open. keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #24
At the Freedom Cafe, management is free to charge double to let you out. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2020 #25
Great commentary. habu1968 Jul 2020 #26
You can. Just rewrite it as a letter to the editor, in other words, seriously. ... Hekate Jul 2020 #27
Nice.nt CatLady78 Jul 2020 #29
...keeping strangers healthy. hay rick Jul 2020 #30
This brought to mind my favourite scene from "The Help" with pecan pie. niyad Jul 2020 #31

LizBeth

(9,946 posts)
3. They suggest that cooks not spit in food but in the spirit of liberty who are they to say it doesn't
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:35 AM
Jul 2020

enhance the flavor if a cook chooses.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
15. To not allow it would be impinging on their 1st Amendment rights
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jul 2020

to freely express their opinion of the customer without fear.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
7. Oops...
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 10:45 AM
Jul 2020

I should have taken that into account.

I keep forgetting that THIS IS the Twilight Zone and it's hard to keep track of the current episode we are in.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
21. Satire, yes, but it rises above satire to real truth. No freedom is pure.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 01:20 PM
Jul 2020

If all lives matter, then practice it all the time every time, even if sometimes inconvenient. Until the MAGAts can do that, then we are inclined to give the floor and the dais and the podium and the rostrum to Black Lives Matter and most other reform-oriented groups and people. And to scientists, doctors, and people with uncorrupted expertise.

bucolic_frolic

(42,659 posts)
16. It really is a Board of Health inspection issue
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 12:46 PM
Jul 2020

There is a reason there are licenses, inspections, citations. They have the power to protect the public from food-borne illnesses.

DFW

(54,047 posts)
17. NRA wlecome! The Freedom Caf is an open-carry family establishment.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 12:58 PM
Jul 2020

If you didn't like your service,, or thought your server was too liberal, you may shoot them.

A word of caution: as equal opportunity freedom lovers, we allow our servers to shoot those patrons who under-tip, and they are armed, too.

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
24. Compromise! - So the bars can open.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 05:08 PM
Jul 2020

Compromise! - So the bars can open.

The bars in the high-risk areas can open if they accept the liability of medical treatment for their patrons that catch the virus.

No social distancing required.

No masks required.

No waivers required.

F-R-E-E-D-O-M-!

You're pretty sure your bar is clean and safe. Right?

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
27. You can. Just rewrite it as a letter to the editor, in other words, seriously. ...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:27 AM
Jul 2020

Point out how grossly unhealthy for the public it would be if restaurant employee handwashing was optional, and all the rest. Treat the subject as straight-up informative instead of satirical, and it will be fit for a newspaper.


hay rick

(7,520 posts)
30. ...keeping strangers healthy.
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jul 2020

The whole mask/no mask squabble in a nut shell. There was a time when you would have expected almost everyone to wear a mask during a pandemic as a matter of simple courtesy. Then Trump came along ...

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