Lol at not being able to buy a 20oz coke in a bodega. Is this asshole fucking real?

The letter grade system for restaurants and delis was a joke from the start, and has been proven, through harrassment & extortion by inspectors, and the costs of compliance and the appeals system, to be yet another tool in this administration's ongoing effort to criminalize poverty, and marginalize the non wealthy. This shit just takes that groundwork to it's logical next step.

Government interference in it's most blatant form - boy Dyzalot was 1000% right.

Nobody's taking away the right to have a dozen Cokes, if that's what you really want. Just please don't give yourself heart disease or diabetes, because my health premiums are already high enough. Government makes decisions all the time about food cleanliness and drug safety that are far more limiting; this proposal seems more on the order of a sensible suggestion than choice-destroying coercion.

 

Originally Posted by Willywoo

Nobody's taking away the right to have a dozen Cokes, if that's what you really want. Just please don't give yourself heart disease or diabetes, because my health premiums are already high enough. Government makes decisions all the time about food cleanliness and drug safety that are far more limiting; this proposal seems more on the order of a sensible suggestion than choice-destroying coercion.

If soda is so dangerous, then just make it illegal then. And to point out how ridiculous this really is, please tell me what use it is for the deli on the corner that serves sandwiches not being able to sell a bottle of coke, but the stationary store next door can?

And what happens to these poor people when the deli that serves cold cuts does some math and concludes that the money they lose from taking bottles of soda off the shelf is greater than the profit they make serving sandwiches, and they not only close the deli counter to not be a 'letter graded establishment' any longer, but also fires the guy from the neighborhood that works the deli counter?

 

Originally Posted by Willywoo

At least it’s a start to help the people no one else cares about, who are in desperate need of stewardship. Left to our own devices, we will almost always make the more comfortable and sometimes wrong choice. No one needs over a quart of soda. I’m not big on setting up a Nanny state, but I also see that we can’t rely on ourselves to make good choices. In the end - even if it’s just a start, curbing obesity is a noble goal. We need to start thinking for the long term, not just what looks like a good idea(or comfortable idea) now. This is not a republican or democrat issue - it’s a human issue.

I'm gonna be thinking about this post on my way to grab a 40oz of Bud this weekend while I'm in the city. I need a quart of soda at all times.

I've recently moved to Connecticut. If I grab a 20 oz Cherry Coke for the ride back to the city can I be charged with trafficking illegal goods once I cross the Throgs Neck Bridge?

 

Originally Posted by Willywoo

At least it’s a start to help the people no one else cares about, who are in desperate need of stewardship. Left to our own devices, we will almost always make the more comfortable and sometimes wrong choice. No one needs over a quart of soda. I’m not big on setting up a Nanny state, but I also see that we can’t rely on ourselves to make good choices. In the end - even if it’s just a start, curbing obesity is a noble goal. We need to start thinking for the long term, not just what looks like a good idea(or comfortable idea) now. This is not a republican or democrat issue - it’s a human issue.

I see where you're coming from and I want to agree with you but the people that are so grossly overweight that they are a strain on our health care are going to be fat,lazy,glutinous,slobs anyway regardless of this law.

This just makes it harder for the businesses to make a profit IMO

Liberty Haze won the cannabis cup this year!!

LOL @ creating a law to reduce the size of soft drink beverages. Great minds we have in office!! What an effective way to combat the obesity epidemic in America!!

Meanwhile in other news.......... they keep cutting PE classes LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

NYC is the cannabis arrest capitol of the WORLD. That should tell you all you need to know about the politicians in NY. It's a joke.

We could model our system like the Japanese. I saw a program on tv that talked about how most companies there actually measure their employee's waistlines as an obesity test.

If they get too fat, they make them get on a weight loss plan. If they don't adhere, they get fired.

It's all done under insurance liability precautions.

america.. fuck yeah!

This would never happen in the South.

It's 2012 brah

 

Originally Posted by SlapNPickle

It's 2012 brah

You're 2012...brah!

Niiiiice.

 

Originally Posted by kellykip

The ones he caters to are more comfortable strolling into Starbucks than a corner bodega, and this, along with the fact that they are a national chain instead of a pesky independent small business, answers the obvious question of why Caretaker Bloomy specifically avoids targeting the massively unhealthy, obesity inducing drinks sold by any of the 1 million Starbucks stores blighting the city.

Really? Because to me it looks like Starbucks would have to get rid of their Venti and Trenta sizes of anything "sugary"...however that's defined.

edit: but its hard to imagine a definition of "sugary" that would capture Coke and not a Frapuccino

I'm fine with this but only if cup makers are still allowed to make cups that are say 18 ounces because god knows places don't fill all the way to the top so if cup makers start making 16 ounce cups and they fill it up only 15 ounces we have a problem and obviously the government won't step in at that point and guarantee any additional ounces (well maybe they will haven't read the whole story yet maybe someone can answer this).