Brickbat: How Can You Have Any Pudding?
In the United Kingdom, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has directed restaurants to cut the portion sizes or reduce the sugar in desserts and other sweets. Their efforts will be tracked on a government website and those who don't comply with the government's demands will be publicly named.
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Mmmm, buyer’s guide
Yeah, this has to have the exact opposite result they are going for. Announcing a place has bigger, sweeter desserts is not a negative.
Of course, it’s just step one to creating a list of future criminals.
Free advertising. That’s something you just can’t buy.
I can see the ad now “Endorsed by Her Majesty’s Government as being bigger and sweeter than any other dessert portion in the UK.”
sugar…honey, honey…sweeter than candy, girl got me wanting you…
It is so so nice to know that the UK has solved every other problem, so they have now focused on portion sizes.
It is so so nice to know that the UK has solved every other problem, so they have now focused on portion sizes.
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oooh, big spender
My plan for serving grilled squirrel in the UK is still dead.
I hear there’s plenty of Gray Squirrels about.
Too soon?
You can get free advertising if you cover it liberally with whipped cream
Morning, It’s British food,you need all the sugar and spices you can get to make it palatable.
The correct answer for this, is: “Go fuck yourself, you snotty little public school bugger!”
-jcr
Of course, then you’d get on another list
A buggery list?
go on….
Just one more horrible consequence of the Brexit.
Their efforts will be tracked on a government website and those who don’t comply with the government’s demands will be publicly named.
Social scientists tend to get a tad too involved in their experiments.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the…pastry?
Publicly named? So, free advertising?
Came here to say this.
As did everybody else.
Free advertising. The OK government really is that fucking stupid.
*UK government*
Need more caffeine.
more spine, more balls, more grit?
the *Conservative* UK government
Does he understand what “sweets” are?
“We proudly announce that our restaurant is on the government’s list of companies that didn’t cave to their demands to make their desserts taste bad — our desserts are still delicious!”
This is what happens when you have a National Health Service: gov thinks it has a right to tell you what to eat. And how do you cut the “portion size” of things like a scoop of ice cream or a donut? Smaller donuts? It is idiotic. Do they think people got fat on desserts alone? Why doesn’t the gov just stand at the table and count out how many peas you can have? Force the sandwiches to be smaller? No more gravy for the mashed potatoes? Are they going to order no more snacking between meals?
And really, if people are going to be hedonists, why isn’t it ok to eat what you want? Who said that maximum lifespan is the ultimate value?
jobs creation!!!