Texas Cottage Food Bill Signed Into Law

• Are you not making customers happy or what?  You have a huge advantage over home bakers.  You have a health permit that certifies that YOU do things right, and a store front in which to display your product.

• You idiot, sick people are not repeat customers.  Most of them over cook all of their stuff because they're from a country where if you don't you could become very sick. I have eaten street food from 21 different countries including Mexico and I have never been sick.  Just look at who is serving and the condition of their equipment,(not if it's old, but if its dirty), then make a judgement call. Egypt was the worst by far.

• WOW! Why don't you move to an island?... And take the time to learn English. You tea baggers are so mentally limited. Scary.

• While I recognize and accept that this new law will benefit many home bakers,  it represents the final nail in the coffin for my bakery.  I have played by all the rules for three and one-half years; (storefront, health department inspections and permitting, local permits and licenses, insurance, taxes, etc.) .  Now anyone can do this out of their home with virtually no regulation, oversight, or overhead costs.  I'm all for competition, but let's have a level field on which to compete. One additional concern is the fact that the HD can only "document" complaints regarding these "newly legal" home bakers.  No inspections allowed.  Caveat emptor!

• Yay my pickles and jalepenos are legal again.. $5 a jar, all organic, all grown by me..

• that's right Angie!!!! The people of TEXAS have SPOKEN!!! now we need to build an ELECTRIFIED WALL and a MOAT FULL OF ALLIGATORS around every single TAMALLY vendor!!!! These INVADERS are selling their HAZARDOUS FOOD to our AMERICAN CHILDREN!!!! WEAK UP, PEOPLE!!!!

• now the question that needs to be answered is, what paper work are people going to have to file in order to establish a texas food cottage establishment?

• What's half right?  What you said is exactly what the article said.

• I could understand the No Internet Sales. They didn't want to loose Tax revenue from sales outside of Texas. However, I was VERY bummed to see No Farmer's Markets. Folks we can than Harris County and the money of their constituents that was used to Lobby Against bill. They threatened to kill the bill on the floor if the No Farmers Markets was not added. Hmmm, WHO needs to be voted out on the next election?

• The way I interpret it is that farmers' markets sometimes act as an intermediary, vouching for the provenance of the items for sale as well as their legality. Most vendors have to go through a strict approval process at these markets; they're not just showing up on a Saturday morning with a basket of peaches that could come from anywhere, or cookies that they may or may not have made. Hence, that doesn't really fit the law's language of only allowing people to sell their goods directly to consumers. I don't agree with this caveat, but at least we're moving in a good direction overall.

• they can have my tames when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

• I am not understanding why farmer's markets are verboten.  A farmer's market to me is someone who has grown or produced a value added product selling that product directly to the public (consumer).  Are farmer's markets in Texas somehow different.

• I said nothing about tamales being approved under the law. In fact, I specifically stated that "foods are limited to non-potentially hazardous baked goods, canned jams, jellies, and dry spice mixes."

• Well as usual reporters tend to only get things half right...LOL.  The law that was signed was SB 81 which allows for individuals to sell baked goods, jams & jellies, and dry spice mixes from their home kitchens without the local HD approval or scrutiny.  Tamale makers must still have a commercial kitchen and be inspected by their local HD as tamales are a potentially hazardous food.  HB 1139 died in the house not even being read by the deadline. 

• Rick Perry for President!!! A campaign platform with this as his only plank can guarantee an easy trip to the Oval Office.

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