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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Attention Salad Dodgers

And I mean stand at attention suck that gut in you fat waste of space don't you eyeball me sunshine everybody down right now and give me fifty how dare you be that fucking shape! You have absolutely no excuse since your caring food gauleiters, through the auspices of the equally caring Department for Health and its minister, Andrew Lansley, are making sure you can't even get it wrong if you eat out a lot. In fact fuck it, fatsos, give me another fifty!
Restaurants and work canteens will put calorie counts on menus and food manufacturers will promise to cut down on salt and artificial fats under a set of agreements to be announced today.
That one doesn't count. ALL the way down, tubs.
The three voluntary “responsibility deals” agreed with the food industry are aimed at helping the public to eat more healthily, in a drive to tackle the growing problem of obesity among both adults and children.
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, believes that firms will be more likely to set ambitious targets for themselves if they are negotiated on a voluntary basis.
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If firms break their promises, the Government will however consider taking compulsory measures.
Remember the kind of voluntary arrangement suggested by The Portman Group for alcohol, which is that they volunteer or get made to do what they should have volunteered to do? Exactly, my flabby friends, so you won't be able to claim you didn't know how many calories the cake was once we get daily intake limits in too.
Rather than a “nanny state” approach, he is keen to arm the public with the tools they need to cope in an “obesogenic environment,” where people are bombarded with adverts for unhealthy food.
See, you're not being nannied. We just know you can't help yourselves so we're doing it for your own good.
In parts of the United States, restaurants are obliged by law to provide diners with the calorie content of their meals.
See? We're not being nasty authoritarian cunts at all. That's the land of the free over there. It must be, 'cause they sing about it. So do as you're fucking told or else it's the trucks, right?

Now then, have we all finished? Alright, you lot at table 19 can just carry on and we'll get round to you in a minute. The rest of you may now have your allotted lunch. Would you like to see the menu or the specials board?

Kraft durch Freude!

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He's a shit that Andrew Lansley. You just know regulation will follow, no matter what.
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Yep. It's becoming repetitive saying this but it's really like Labour never went away, isn't it?
Introducing Soylent Green would neatly round off the exercise, don't you think?
1 reply · active 735 weeks ago
Shhhhh. Don't give them any more ideas.
Pretty sure I read something somewhere last week that the US had found that printing the calorie count on menus had no effect whatsoever on people's food choices...?
5 replies · active 735 weeks ago
Certainly wouldn't mine so it wouldn't surprise me. If you happen to come across the link I'd be interested in reading it.
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nisakiman · 735 weeks ago

I always check things like fat / calorie content etc so as to avoid any of that "lo-calorie, lo-fat, sugar-free" shite. Full cream, real sugar and red meat is what I like, so that kind of info on packets can be quite useful.
If it was breathing when you shot it then that's a good sign ;)
Thanks Julia. I'll have a read later,

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