Restaurant story...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk )
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:31:57 +0100


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DOBBIGAN (YURO COUNTY) May 28 (UPX)--Yuro County officials have closed a
Mexican restaurant at a retreat operated by the California-based Church
of the ABC of Abraham, after a thorough inspection of the restaurant
revealed a bizarre violation of the state Health and Safety Code.  

Restaurante "La Cucaracha" ("The Cockroach") served gourmet Mexican food
to church members and tourists visiting the sect's rural Yuro County
spiritual retreat until Sunday, when health inspectors ordered the
facility closed.

The retreat, originally known as the Cluny Bin Ranch, later the Coney
Island Monastery, was recently redubbed "Priapus" by its founder in a
gesture of tribute to the ancient Greco-Roman god of male generative
power.

The Yuro County Health Department, in its official statement, cited its
principal reason for shutting down the restaurant the fact that "semen
is not a food and cannot legally be served as a condiment in restaurants
in California."  Members of the Priapus community believe their Leader's
semen to be a sacrament, the consumption of which magically links the
astral bodies of the group's membership and ensures group unity through
the difficult reincarnation process.

"The condiment was not available to non-members and thus posed no threat
to the community," said the group's lawyer, Avramel Gittleson. "Members
are entitled to consume the condiment as a religious sacrament, under
the first amendment as well as the Religious Freedom Act of 1993."  But
county officials have a different view.  "We've had complaints from
several former members and their guests who were served meals without
full disclosure," said County Health Commissioner Mark Everett.