See, this kind of shit annoys me.
Manufacturers are being asked to cut the size of chocolate bars, confectionery and cans of fizzy drinks to tackle rising rates of obesity.
Why should everything else change except for fat people? Why can’t they just eat less? And don’t the FSA see the stupidity of this? If an obese person is used to a chocolate bar being a certain size, making the chocolate bar smaller means they’ll buy two chocolate bars because they’ll feel, rightly enough, like they’re not getting as much chocolate as they used to. And nobody can eat just 20% of a chocolate bar so they’ll eat more chocolate than before and get even bigger.
This will prompt yet another reduction in chocolate bar size until chocolate bars are so tiny they can only be viewed under electron microscropes and porkers are eating 6 million of them a day.
And what about the rest of us? Why can’t we enjoy a bar of chocolate the way it is now without being dictated to by people with diabetes and back tits?
What’s next? We have to make beer less beery? Cigarettes less smokey? Cheesecake less cheesey?
What a load of shit. Gluttonous tubsters, do us all a favour and do some fucking exercise and eat the odd salad instead of twelve Star Bars for your lunch.
Hear the fuck hear. This is the most asinine proposal since making the health warning on cig packs bigger than the brand logo.
not only will bars and drinks get smaller, they will also stay the same price. you don’t think a government body came up with this shit on their own, do you?
In America, they gradually made Hersheys smaller, but that was to do with inflation and some daft undertaking on Hershey’s part not to raise the price in order to appear salt of the earth & of the people.
It damn sure didn’t make the yanks any skinnier though
They already abolished the supertins of coke, didn’t they. What more do they want from us?
Can’t believe Mary Harney will let this piece of legislation see the light of day. She’ll eat it before that happens.
On if it’s on rice pudding paper.
Don’t they still have mega mars bars and snickers? Or have the blubberers taken them away from us as well?
Bah, stupid fuckers trying to regulate everything.
Sure don’t they already have several sizes of chocolate bars?
Remember they were talking about reducing the size of bottles of wine because apparently one bottle of wine is too much to share between two people.
Right… so i guess skulling 3 bottles of wine single handed doesn’t really fit in with their limitations either. ah well.
Ah,Leave the salad dodgers alone lads there an easy and VERY BIG target..heh.
back tits, haha
I know a few people who use to smoke 10 fags a day and no more. But now since they can’t buy 10 and have to buy 20 they’re smoking more
If they make creme eggs smaller I am going to start killing fat people. and that’s a promise.
Although they can do what they want to curly wurlys, I hate those fuckin things. They’ve changed the inner caramel to a kind of glue.
I rather agree, Major. Over-indulgence and the seemingly endless quest by some for instant gratification should not mean collective punishement for the entire population.
I chose to opt out of the system.
I was in Blanchardstown last night by mistake. And my God the place is full of obese people and loads of car parks.
By mistake? Where were you suppose to be?
this has happened already, king size snickers were outlawed for this very reason. so what do cadburys do? bring out the double, so instead of getting a king size bar you get 2 regular sized (or maybe slightly smaller) bars in one wrapper, so you’re getting more bar but its.. what, healthier? deadly.
When global warming melts the ice caps and the oceans rise 300 or more feet only the fat will survive. They will be floating around like corks while the skinnies will have drowned. So eat lots of chocolate and fried foods and wash them down with gallons of beer. It will also annoy the shitheads who pass idiotic laws concerning how others live.
I remember that reshuffle of the king size bars into the Duo bars instead. I think you’ve gotta admire Big Chocolate for mining the fatsos as much as they do. At least they can get some use out of them.
As for protective legislation, fuck them. They cost us normals too much as it is with their back pain and disability and depression and diabetes and heart disease and the whole remaining gamut of self induced fatness diseases. As I’ve said before here and elsewhere, tax the bastards.
The more you weigh the more you pay.
A good way to raise funds would be to tax fat people more than normal people. As long as they’re fat they pay more. It will force them to lose weight, thus making the health service more efficient, and the workforce far better as they wouldn’t be slothing around like fatties. We might get former fat entrepeneurs creating new businesses and employment and the country would get back on its feet.
Fat people are to blame for pretty much everything.
Hear Hear – and the global international ancient Zionist conspiracy is to blame for everything else. And Xenu. And the Flying Spaghetti monster.
It’s all to do with the dwarves. NI is infested with them.
Jesus – just read this in the IT about 4 members still on the Ryan report Payroll
“All four are being paid fortnightly at department assistant secretary levels, between €150,000 and €160,000 annually.”
€3,000 a week ?
worth every fucking penny.
Your suggestion that the people who buy loads of chocolate will just buy more of the smaller bars is most likely correct. But there’s no need for the anti-fat brigade to come storming in, I seriously doubt a fat chocolate-loving person came up with the idea to reduce bar sizes. I can’t imagine one of them saying “Oh, if only the bars were smaller, I wouldn’t have eaten so much of them”.
Leave the bar sizes alone for fuck sake, let people eat what they want. This state needs to stop nannying everybody and mind it’s own business…which it would if it was making a killing on taxes/import duty on chocolate.
Aww crap, I’ve probably given them an idea now. Time to stockpile the Galaxy and Dairy Milk…
Oh, there’s my gun ..it would appear I’ve jumped over it. Having read the article it’s probably just a matter of time till some HSE consultant on 300k a year will mention this to Mary Harney. Who’ll laugh and it’ll all be forgotten about soon after.
Fairly irrelvant, but I this post reminded me of an argument I once saw on Facebook. It ended with the following :
Girl : Shut up, your face looks like a double decker bus.
Boy : Well you look like you’ve eaten a bus full of double deckers.
I’d fucking love a double decker right now.
if they make chocolate bars smaller it will make obese peoples fingers look fatter when they are eating them.
A cunning psychological ploy.
I had a star bar today, first one in ages… lovely salty chocolate…
As a devout conspiracy theorist i’m with the people who think this is the choc companies being cheap, and passing it off as a health benefit…
Other government initiatives:
Subsidise the sale of cars that don’t start in the morning. This will certainly lower deaths on the road.
Change the hinges on pub doors to make them slightly harder to open. This will naturally have a huge effect on excessive alcohol consumption.
Raise the taxes on cosmetics for anyone under the age of 18, which will result in less girls using make up. And having less attractive young ladies on the streets undoubtedly lower the statistics for teenage pregnancies.
Add earwax to Rizla smoking paper so that it tastes awful and you can be sure that the use of soft drugs will drop.
Make it compulsory to pass a rigorous physical exam before being able to enter a hospital. This should lower health spending considerably.
Install high pitched alarms on all normal dustbins to encourage people to recycle.
Mr. M and I have had this conversation more than once. I don’t get it, but apparently there have been many studies which show that folks have no concept of portion size. For example, this one dude had a study featuring a bowl which kept refilling itself as people ate. Test subjects consumed, consumed without stopping until they ate massive amounts.
Now I’m not advocating that anyone adopt my hyper-vigilant habits, but folks do need to learn how to measure their food intake.
Yeah, folks. Not government agencies doing it for them while the rest of us suffer.
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And…
The land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Next up, they are going to outlaw which colour of car you can drive… Wait, California has already banned black cars.
If you want the society to be healthier you need to educate. Not regulate the size of food portions junk food companies can sell… It’s called junk food for a reason.
Next thing they are going to tax junk food… Oh, shit, that’s next on their agenda.