Undercover sting nabs California mother selling ceviche through Facebook group
Mariza Ruelas never expected a plate of ceviche would lead her to the court house and maybe even a possible jail sentence.
For more than a year, undercover investigators in San Joaquin County, California tracked the sales of food — such as homemade tamales, tortillas and cakes — through a community Facebook group, a sting that Mariza Ruelas called a “waste of time and resources and taxpayers’ money.”
Ruelas, a single mother of six, first came across the Facebook group about two years ago when she needed a last-minute cake for her daughter’s quinceañera, the Hispanic coming-of-age celebration on a young woman’s 15th birthday.
The community forum, 209 Food Spot, allowed Stockton, Calif. residents to share recipes, organize potlucks and occasionally sell or exchange food items.
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I mainly looked at this article just to see what on earth ceviche was. It seems to me that the local authorities could make better use of their time.
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from Wiki:
Quinceañeras developed in Aztec culture in Mesoamerica around 500 B.C. At age fifteen, boys became warriors and girls were viewed as mothers of future warriors. Both sexes had rites of passage in this period of puberty, to take on adult responsibilities. A girl became a woman capable of bearing children. Over time, the quinceañera has continued to represent the physical and symbolic passage of a girl to a woman
Quinceañera (Spanish pronunciation: [kinseaˈɲeɾa]; feminine form of "fifteen-year-old"
, also called fiesta de quince años, fiesta de quinceañera, quince años, quinceañero or simply quince, is a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday with cultural roots of Latin America but celebrated throughout the Americas. This birthday is celebrated differently from any other as it marks the transition from childhood to young womanhood.[1] Latin myths and tradition tell about how girls were prepared for marriage by age fifteen or else they became nuns. In the years prior to their fifteenth birthdays, girls were taught to cook, weave, and about childbearing by the elder women in their communities in preparation for their expected lives as married women.[2] The celebrations today vary significantly across countries; celebrations in some countries, for example, have taken on more religious overtones than in others.
