On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:07:54 -0500, Jim Redelfs
wrote:

Pre-packaged, consumable food is not subject to
SALES tax in many areas but virtually everything else is.

Around here it's the opposite. Candy bars are taxable, and maybe
cooked rotisserie chickens are, but food that needs to be cooked
isn't. The borderline is not obvious, sort of arbitrary , but has to
be drawn somewhere.