Our civic association also contributed to the panic with a lot of fearmongering that was about as ridiculous as you can imagine (and I don’t even like Taco Bell).

Is this why the rhetoric seemed to escalate from zero to batshit out of nowhere? I’m sure there was a slow burn I wasn’t aware of but I remember when it erupted I couldn’t find much of a ramp up. I’ll always treasure the phrase forkless riffraff, regardless