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Local taco fans mourned this past Tuesday as Taco Tuesdays at Dave’s Meat & Produce were temporarily suspended.  At approximately 1:30 p.m., literally minutes before the Dave’s squad was about to start up the taco shop, Pierce County Health Department made their infamous appearance â€" thus shutting the famous weekly taco stand down.

What was the PCHD’s beef* with Dave’s?  There’s no hand-washing sink for the food prep guys outside.  They want Dave’s to literally tap into the water line below ground and install a sink out on the sidewalk.

But wait!  Stadium Thriftway does it, so why can’t Dave’s Meat & Produce?  My first answer was that they were close enough to the espresso stand’s sink.  I was wrong.  Stadium Thriftway is apparently “grandfathered in,” according to the Dave’s team.  The people at Dave’s also told me who they speculate might’ve turned them in to the PCHD, but being chocked full of journalistic integrity I’ll let you go in and talk to the guys at Dave’s for yourself.

Dave’s Meat and Produce will hopefully get Taco Tuesdays up and running by next week.  Their plan is to move the taco booth closer to the espresso stand in hopes they will be closer to a damn hand-washing sink.  States Dave’s group of guys, “If that doesn’t work, then we know something’s up â€" in a bad way,”

* Nice pun, huh?