'Porno dogs' run into problems at Pride festivities

Aunt Betty’s phallic corn dogs nearly got shut down in at the Pride Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, but the shape of the dog had nothing to do with it. Aunt Betty, whose real name is Betty Brett, is a caterer from Sonoma who, when she works the street fairs of Sonoma, sells regular corn dogs instead of anatomically correct ones. Aunt Betty was whipping up a fresh batch of what she calls Porno Dogs when three inspectors from the San Francisco Fire Department happened by, with clipboards. The head inspector, who was not identified, told Brett that the umbrella was in violation, that her propane tank was also in violation for being underpressured and her propane tank hose was in violation as well, for being too short. “I could shut you down,” the inspector said, writing down a lot of things on her clipboard about the dangers of unsafely-prepared phallic hot dogs. You get more to eat with a Porno Dog than a regular one, which costs $6, but ten bucks was perhaps too much to charge for an impulse item like a Porno Dog, Brett said. [...] she said she did not expect as big a crowd this year, because of the extra security precautions in the aftermath of the Orlando tragedy. Brett said she also sells a cajun hot link sausage which, because of its larger size, cannot be turned into a Porno Dog by adding the extra section.