Any similarity to the dairy cartel is purely coincidental: In 1930s New York, the Mayor Took on the Mafia by Banning Artichokes
h/t Alan
Any similarity to the dairy cartel is purely coincidental: In 1930s New York, the Mayor Took on the Mafia by Banning Artichokes
h/t Alan
“The web page is not available”
Link works for me. Today it seems the Mexican Mafia likes avocados over marijuana.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-20/mexico-cartel-violence-avocados
Welcome back Kate. You are the best at digging up interesting stories. Is it really a “cartel” if it’s sanctioned by the government?
Yes, government itself is a cartel.
Hey, the Sicilian Mafia has nothing on the Trudeau Government.
They implemented their Carbon Tax on everyone. Beat that Mafia!
What’s changed since 1930s is that the real criminals are elected.
Unlike government, the mafia always wanted you to have money, so they could get some. And very unlike government, they would help you get rid of obstacles, you had no ( other ) crime problems. And they didnt lecture you about polar bears, rainbows, or pigmy tribes 16,000 miles away.
Mayor Laguardia was an interesting chap. He once hijacked an airliner because it was going to land in New Jersey instead of New York to highlight that New York needed an airport.
artichokes?
entirely plausible.
they are still at it with olive oil:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/04/olive-oil-real-thing
shucks, even Vito Corleone was in the olive oil business.