FOOD 4 THOUGH GIVES CHEEZMEH COLD SHOULDER

"The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away...

I'm free from your spell
And now that it's over
All I can do is wish you well"

"The Thrill is Gone," by B.B. King

By Juan Montoya
Channel 4's Ryan Wolf is no longer tagging them on his FB page and calling them the "Food Patrol."
Instead, he is now making sure that his viewers in his Food 4 Thought segment on the station's newshole are told when the food inspections and the follow-up inspections were made, how they were resolved, and whether the problems have been solved.
He no longer is weasel-wording his broadcasts to make it appear that the small mom-and-pop businesses that Cheezmeh targeted to ask for "donations" to their websites or "face the consequences" and were later featured in Ryan's broadcasts had been closed as a result of their campaign.
It was instructive to see yesterday when Wolf was "given the cold shoulder" by a businessman who had refrigeration problems at his restaurant – and had already fixed them – the sensationalist talking head said, almost as an aside, that Panaderia Capistran in Brownsville was open for business in Brownsville.
But he didn't tag Erasmo Castro, the Head Cheez, on his page, and neither did he tag his tag-team sister Linda Dragustinovis. But they are still trying, though. They posted his Food 4 Thought segement where he is "given the cold shoulder."
If you remember, Panaderia Capistran is the same bakery that was featured – in tandem with the Cheezmeh bunch – in a previous Food 4 Thought broadcast where Wolf implied that the bakery had closed as a result of his broadcast without telling viewers that the panaderia had switched owners and the place was being remodeled by the new proprietors. He didn't tell them that the Cheezmeh group had gone to the new owners demanding that he give them an advertising donation or else they would get the station to broadcast a damaging segment
against them. When Wolf got to the bakery, he found it closed.
What perhaps Wolf didn't know was that the Cheezmeh Gang had descended en masse at Capistran's and asked the new owner if he wanted to advertise on their Internet page and when he declined, they said that if he didn't play along with them, he should be ready to "face the consequences."
"Eran esos whe se llaman, Brownsville, como dijieron, si, si Cheezmeh, esos son'" he told our reporter. (They said their name was Brownsville Cheezmeh and said that since I didn't advertise that I would face the consequences.)
Sure enough. Even before Wednesday's Food 4 Though segment, Head Cheez Erasmo Castro published on his FB page that Wolf had posted that the "Food Patrol is exposing shocking filth at Panaderia Capistran at Brownsville at 10 (p.m.)"
This has been a pattern that has developed in other Food 4 Thought broadcasts involving Brownsville businesses such as Oyster Bar Too and Mr. Taco.
In the case of Mr. Taco, even though the owners took care of the violations made in a July 25th report the very next day – July 26 – Wolf's broadcast was made on August 28th, with a tease that the "Shocking photos expose fly infestation at Mr. Taco with insects on food" . Wolf failed to failed to tell his viewers that it been more than a month after the restaurant was cleared.
Was the mention of the bakery last night on Food 4 Thought a kind of legalistic damage control being made to protect the station from liability just in case the new owners took offense at the previous broadcast?
That threat, however, apparently isn't stopping Cheezmeh's Head Cheez Erasmo Castro in Austin from posting the contents of health inspectors' reports about Brownsville business, even admitting that the reports are dated and that the conditions made in the reports no longer exist.
Has Cheezmeh worn out its welcome at Food 4 Though and are now on a solo mission
to drum up business by posting damaging information about small businesses so they can break down and dish out some cash? Can it be"Taps" for the lost Food Patrol?