SFist Year In Review: Things S.F. Banned In 2012

PHOTOS: Five Things San Francisco Banned In 2012
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006 file photo, a serving of salt-cured fresh foie gras with herbs is displayed at Chef Didier Durand's Cyrano's Bistrot and Wine Bar in Chicago. Back in 2005, the California legislature gave foie gras producers seven years to find a humane way to create the fatty duck liver delicacy without forcing food down the birds throats. With the July 1, 2012 deadline looming, an attempt by some of the states top chefs to overturn the law has the bills original sponsor alleging that opponents have gone back on their word. A similar ban in Chicago was repealed in 2008. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006 file photo, a serving of salt-cured fresh foie gras with herbs is displayed at Chef Didier Durand's Cyrano's Bistrot and Wine Bar in Chicago. Back in 2005, the California legislature gave foie gras producers seven years to find a humane way to create the fatty duck liver delicacy without forcing food down the birds throats. With the July 1, 2012 deadline looming, an attempt by some of the states top chefs to overturn the law has the bills original sponsor alleging that opponents have gone back on their word. A similar ban in Chicago was repealed in 2008. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Boy, 2012 was quite a year, wasn't it? After gaining national notoriety for banning Happy Meals (and by proxy: happiness in general) in 2011, the city really stepped up its nanny-state game in 2012. In 2013, no one will ever see a naked peen in public again, basically. (Except for, you know, when the city feels it is acceptable.) The right to show show your dick to whomever and whenever you want isn't the only thing San Franciscans lost this year. We also banned -- or at least tried to ban -- everything from: foie gras to grocery bags to phone books to new restaurants. Without further ado, here's our recap of the things Baghdad by the Bay outlawed over the last year:

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