The New York Bureau of Food Discipline Announces New Guidelines for Pretzels, Hot Dogs…

Nick Gillespie | 6.4.2012 11:35 AM

"City of New York Bureau of Food Discipline: 'We Reduce Your Rights to Reduce Your Waistline' #NYCBFD"

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purple_persuader 13 years ago

To all New Yorkers...GET OUT NOW!!!
1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  Fuck New Yorkers. Until michael bloomberg is shitting himself while swinging from a lamp post in times square, they can suck this shit up and like it.
2. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  No, evacuate whatever friends or relatives you may wish to spare, then fence the cesspool in so that none of the vermin may escape.
  
  Let New York finally become the penal colony that it was meant to be.
robc 13 years ago

WTF, autostart? Squirrels, kill this NOW!
1. Almanian...still 13 years ago
  
  Second!
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  I came here to say this.
3. PS 13 years ago
  
  I think the version they made is autostart, which is embedded directly.
  
  I assume swithching to the YouTube version would fix this, and reduce bandwidth.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3H65bPqcg
4. affenkopf 13 years ago
  
  KILL WITH FIRE! WORSE THAN SODA BAN!
5. Warren 13 years ago
  
  FUCK YOU ASSHATS!
  KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!
  GRRRRRRRRRR!
6. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  I kind of like it.
7. ClubMedSux 13 years ago
  
  If I wanted a random video to start playing when I load a site, I'd go to espn.com.
MP 13 years ago

Is this a parody? I can't tell anymore.
1. Muad'Dib 13 years ago
  
  Seriously, this must be hyperbole?!
  1. PS 13 years ago
    
    It's a parody, but like all great parodies, entirely believable.
2. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  At first I wasnt sure either. I decided it was hyperbole.
  
  If I discover that it isnt hyperbole and in fact there exists an actual Bureau of Food Discipline I wont be one bit surprised.
  1. Jim Treacher 13 years ago
    
    BFD.
GroundTruth 13 years ago

"Bureau of Food Discipline"??? Sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged, or 1984.
1. Doctor Whom 13 years ago
  
  Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Burofooddisc.
PapayaSF 13 years ago

I believe it's entirely unfair to restrict the rights of the thin in order to help the obese. Simply make it illegal to sell giant sodas to fat people. In order to create an objective way to determine obesity, every vendor will install a metal hoop on their premises. If you can't fit through the hoop, no big soda for you.
1. PS 13 years ago
  
  This ought to apply to salt as well. Obviously thin people, who aren't at risk for CHD or stroke, can buy pretzels.
2. fresno dan 13 years ago
  
  No, I say create an unobjective way to decide it someone is too tubby to have a ginormous soda - kinda like the old studio 54. A snobbish dweeb with two big enforcers look at you and says "thin" or "lardo"
3. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  Ha! +1 for you Papaya.
Romulus Augustus 13 years ago

When are the non-Manhattan boroughs going to man up and toss out any councilman who supports Bloomberg's crap?
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  When are the non-Manhattan boroughs going to man up and toss out any councilman who supports Bloomberg's crap?
  
  As soon as their testicles drop into their now-useless scrotum.
  
  Which for some reason brings me to this. Enjoy the brilliance.
fresno dan 13 years ago

One good thing (and I say that ironically) is that if foot longs are reduced another 5 inches, I could say truthfully that I am hung like a New York foot long (which is now 3.25 inches) and be telling the truth
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  I could say truthfully that I am hung like a New York foot long (which is now 3.25 inches)
  
  I see no reason to doubt you, fresno dong.
NotSure 13 years ago

This may be a spoof, but I have zero doubt that should such a thing be real the usual gang would be defending this using the usual "government is saving you from yourself" arguments.
1. Doctor Whom 13 years ago
  
  If the usual suspects were consistent, they'd be up in arms about this. After all, restrictions on those liberties that they like have also been packaged as "for your own health."
  
  Oh, wait. Did I actually suggest that they be consistent? I sometimes crack myself up.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

This video reminds me that living in California isn't so bad. Yeah, the people are just as nannyish in LA and the Bay Area, but at least they don't have that accent. Ahhhhhh, that fucking accent!
1. Rhywun 13 years ago
  
  Well, we don't have hippies. So there.
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    I'll take hippies over the hipster douchebags you're stuck with in NYC any day of the week.
ant1sthenes 13 years ago

NYC? BFD.
Audrey the Liberal 13 years ago

Mayor Bloomberg is worse then colon cancer, and that's what killed my mom.

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