No Chub-Chubs in the Restaurant!

[Pushyourluck]

It always makes me laugh how huge supermarkets are becoming, yet the fresh food section still remains one of the smallest areas. Where I shop (tesco) there's more choice on alcohol than fresh produce.

 

[floorrunner]

I am tired of people blaming the food industry for obesity. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

 

[winterknight]

I am tired of people blaming the food industry for obesity. Whatever happened to personal responsibilit?

They invented trans fats and HFCS. Which are in so many things that they're almost impossible to avoid unless you don't buy anything from big-chain supermarkets.

 

[LaloGS]

The fat Nazis have arrived!!!

 

[Just_Believe18]

Talk about a violation of constitutional rights.

"You can't eat here. You're too fat!"

???

 

[Horschallen]

>>>That's different. Being drunk is COOL! Being obese is GROSS!

Lex

I am shocked by this comment from this particular member.

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>I am shocked by this comment from this particular member.

Left off the "/sarcasm" bit at the end. I thought my persona was well-enough established that I didn't need a bouncing smiley for it.

Lex

 

[Ninja108]

gotta love our government! (NOT!)

 

[chatolandia]

Wow!!


I must say that is a great example of micromanagement and completely missing the point on what is making America fat!

(And Lex, I got it, Drunks are sexy AND pretty too!)

 

[RationalLunacy]

Lex, you must be losing your touch... i swear your point was sarcastic and relative, but folks seem to think otherwise...

On the other hand, if I had said it.......

 

[RationalLunacy]

What if this became a law: everytime a restaurant serves food to an obese person they must say "You're most likely going to die of a heart attack. Have a nice day."

Perhaps they should just put a Surgeon General's label on every pie and muffin.

 

[colemanshs]

Does this also include delivery?

I don't think the government has any right to restrict whom a restaurant serves or the food industry at all. If a restaurant is profitable by serving the obese then let them serve the obese. If the food industry is profitable by making foods with high amounts of fat then let them. I think people, as was mentioned above, should take their own personal responsibility for what they eat. If there is too much fat in the food in the grocery store then you should plant a garden and buy some cows to slaughter yourself.

I'm in no way a skinny person but I put no blame on anyone else for my size. All I have to do is put on my walking shoes and go for a stroll everyonce in a while.

 

[Spellbound]

Meanwhile, in the UK, this was announced...

MINISTERS UNVEIL £400 MILLION POUND PLAN TO SHOUT AT FAT PEOPLE

BRITAIN'S fat people are to be hounded into submission through a multi-million pound strategy of shouting and community violence.

At the heart of the programme will be 250,000 outreach counsellors who will patrol supermarket aisles looking for 'inappropriate choicemakers'.

Once they have identified a target the uniformed counsellors will approach the shopper and scream: "PUT IT DOWN FATTY! PUT IT DOWN!"

Supermarket entrances will be fitted with hidden scales and as overweight shoppers enter they will hear the sound of mooing cows and be handed a photograph of Christopher Biggins.

The counsellors will also have the power to force fat people to strip down to their underpants and run around the car park for 20 minutes.

The government's plan for 'healthy towns' will include daily calisthenics, with hundreds of uniformed citizens lined up in neat rows, swinging their arms in time to music.

The sessions will be filmed and shown before popular features at cinemas across the country. Actor Brian Cox will provide a voice-over stressing the importance of physical fitness to the struggle against international Zionism.

The 'healthy towns', or gesundestädte, will host weekly torchlit marches to the local sports stadium where the uniformed citizens will eat satsumas while watching Sir Steve Redgrave's 1996 coxless pairs triumph over and over again.

Anyone unable to lose weight will have their passport confiscated and be forced to sew a patch onto their uniform depicting a big, fat cartoon pig.

Meanwhile, health secretary Alan Johnson is urging school bullies to step up their victimisation of overweight children as part of the government's 'Let's Punch Britain Thin' programme.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Sounds like a sketch French and Saunders would do.