If you’ve been following the LA food blogosphere these past few months, you’ll know that LA has more or less criminalized those bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors ubiquitous to crowded late-night areas.

It’s unclear why the City of LA has declared deliciousness illegal (not just these but taco trucks in East LA), but things are reaching a boiling point: As reported on LAist and EaterLA, the LAPD had a crackdown on the mobile dog-vendors last Friday night, and it wasn’t pretty: apparently rather than actually subject them to this fanciful idea of “due process” and actually following the law, they simply tossed the carts, vittles and all, into a garbage truck.

Quote the Desert Dispatch:

In Los Angeles, police cracked down on illegal street hot dog (bacon-wrapped!) cart vendors. Most disturbing is that apparently, the police simply destroyed all the carts and all the contents without involving that crazy little creation we have here in the United States called “the justice system.”

They’re probably relying on the operators to not have the money to sue over this, but good lord. Due process? Anybody heard of it? Anybody?

I have, and I, for one, am appalled. Appalled and hungry.

More news as the battle rages on.

Photo by Al Pavangkanan, story via LAist and Desert Dispatch

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