Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: netbuddy on March 12, 2009, 01:44:20 pm
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090312/tuk-gp-says-tax-chocolate-dba1618.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090312/tuk-gp-says-tax-chocolate-dba1618.html)
GP is calling for chocolate to be taxed.
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Yes why don't we just change everyone's shitty nappy for them too?
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It has not got approval
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It certainly has not.
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I'm almost lost for words about these stupid ideas. All it really shows is that they want to fix problems like obesity without actually spending the money needed to help people (who need help that is). It's the kind of short sighted idiocy that only governments can achieve :-)
I love the comparison to alcohol - coz taxing that has had so much success in reducing crime, addiction, deaths etc...
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exactly choc.
That GP sure is talking out of his behind.
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Chocolate don't make people fat. Fat people make people fat!
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Wow, that was close, aparently only 2 votes in it for the raising of prices on chocolate.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090312/tuk-doctors-reject-chocolate-tax-dba1618.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090312/tuk-doctors-reject-chocolate-tax-dba1618.html)
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Yes, doctors certainly have the power to introduce new legislation.
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raising choc prices to combat obesity? WOW! what a great idea!!! i mean, god, it worked wonders with cigarettes and stopping people smoking, right?
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It wouldn't stop people eating it but it would help pay for the NHS treatment that obese people tend to need over a life time.
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Tonight in my local off licence the girl in front of me was asked for ID before she was able to purchase her wine . That gave me the idea that maybe the shop assistant could insist on weighing people before selling them chocolate and if they are too heavy he can perhaps sell them something else instead like erm...cigarettes or vodka.
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Tonight in my local off licence the girl in front of me was asked for ID before she was able to purchase her wine . That gave me the idea that maybe the shop assistant could insist on weighing people before selling them chocolate and if they are too heavy he can perhaps sell them something else instead like erm...cigarettes or vodka.
That could work but for one flaw, instead of kids hanging around harassing you to buy them a packet of *fags, you will have a lot of fatties hanging around harassing kids to buy them chocolates or even swap *fags and alcopops for chocolate...
(*fags to our american visitors is slang for cigarettes)
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Buy me a family bar of fruit and nut or I'll sit on you.
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Seems like a bargain!
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........take the "or" out of the offer and replace with "and" though.
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Buy me a family bar of fruit and nut or I'll sit on you.
That sounds like a good offer! No, I'm not going to give you a bar of Fruit 'n' Nut. ;)
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I warn you I am heavy.
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Your avatar lies then?
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A good article from The Times on the subject, I think I agree with pretty much everything written here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5907727.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5907727.ece)
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There shouldn't be a chocolate tax. A bit of what you fancy does you good.
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Very good article.
basically our KFC and other "Processed" foods like KFC that are laced or as the term in the industry calls it "Pumped" meats like KFC chicken have had added sugar, seaonings and denatured fats & protiens from other animals sources including beef, pork and lamb.... in chicken.
The chickens have been reared on a high calorie diet that casues them to grow huge in a short time and this chicken is full of saturated fats.
Add the "Ross203" as I believe the type of chicken is called in to the main stream diet of millions of peoples diets... Before long you will start to see a rise in obesity and all the other disorders associated with high fat, high sugar diets.
So who is driving this market?
The consumer gets blamed for the whole deal when it is not as clearly cut as to blame the consumer, you have to distribute the blame evenly. Instead the blame gets thrown at the farmer which is hardly fair given the very people who buy his product "Demand" the product to "Fit" its specification. SO its the supermarkets then... but they blame the consumer for bad diet...
Hmmm.
Perhaps if the doctors looking at the chocolate tax issue would pull their tiny head out of their ring pieces then they may actually "Defogg" their heads enough to see the wood for the trees and get a better understanding of the bigger picture.
It reminds me of a school yard squabble, no one wants to man up and accept the blame for the situation and this is what I can't not understand about supermarkets, we need them regardless, so why are they worried about "Corporate Image" ?
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I like KFC family buckets.
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I like KFC family buckets.
Yea, but do you like the chicken too?
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I like KFC family buckets.
What do you use them for?
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Yea, but do you like the chicken too?
It's the secret blend of herbs and spices.
I believe it is house dust, shake n vac, sawdust, vinegar, toffos (you'll know, you Vic and Bob fans), dander and a touch of oregano.