Surf City, U.S.A. restaurant requires patrons to prove they are unvaccinated before eating: “We chose to fire a missile of defiance to further make our point in the defense of American liberty and freedom!”

The war rages on!

Huntington Beach, California alternately called “Surf City, U.S.A.” and “The Town That Olympic Silver Medalist Kanoa Igarashi Left” has long been on the bleeding edge of the Coronavirus debate with anti-maskers and “pro-health” advocates regularly “clashing” in the streets.

Much passion back and forth that has now transmorphed into pasion as a local Italian restaurant is refusing to serve vaccinated guests pasta e vino etc.

Basilicos, on Brookhurst street, has posted a sign out front reading, “Notice, proof of being UNvaccinated required. We have zero tolerance for treasonous, anti-American stupidity. Thank you for pondering.”

Owner Tony Roman was very mad, months ago, over mask mandates and told his patrons to “leave the mask and take the cannoli.”

People are very frustrated and letting their positions known on Basilicos Facebook page, the new brave battleground for thought and idea exchange.

California has threatened to investigate the restaurant but Roman is as undeterred as he is unvaccinated and told the Los Angeles Times, “With warning signs of another impending lockdown, and man businesses owners again emboldening those who I refer to as ‘the lockdown tiny tyrants’ – this time by imposing proof-of-vaccine policies – we chose to fire another missile of defiance to further make our point in defense of American liberty and freedom.”

There has been a fine pulse of south swell in Orange County during the last few days. After a hunger-inducing paddle off the pier, will you go fill your belly at Basilicos or stand in the street, tears staining cheeks, vaccination card in back pocket?

Team Tony or Team Tiny Tyrant?