Riverside, CA: 15 ABSURD Food Laws

Weird laws exist in the United States that range from unmarried women being banned from parachuting on Sunday's in Florida to a bathing prohibition in Indiana. It's one of those things where it's understood that the law no longer holds, but makes you wonder, "Why hasn't it been repealed?" Check out 15 strange food-related laws below:

1.In Greene, NY, it's against the law to walk backwards down the street and eat peanuts while a concert is playing.

2.In Marion, OH, it's a violation to eat a doughnut while walking backwards.

3. In Massachusetts, mourners at a wake cannot eat more than three sandwiches. What would Joey Tribbiani do?

4. In Beech Grove, IN, it's forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.

5. In Boston, it's illegal to eat peanuts in a Church.

6. In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for a man to buy alcohol without a note of permission from his wife.

7. In California, it's illegal to eat an orange in your bath tub.

8. In Carmel, NY, it's illegal to eat ice cream while standing on the sidewalk.

9. In Riverside, CA, it is illegal to carry a lunch down the street between the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

10. In Maryland, it's against the law to eat while swimming in the ocean.

11. In Texas, it is illegal for a person to consume more than three sips of beer at a time while standing up.

12. In Rosemead, CA, it's illegal to eat ice cream in publish with a fork.

13. In Connecticut, a pickle is not really a pickle unless it bounces.

14. In Idaho, it's illegal for a man to give a woman a box of chocolates weighing less than 50 pounds.

15. In Gainesville, Ga., it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.