Nanny govt and pettiness continues...after restaurants

[kokonut]

What more undiscovered mandates hidden in the Obamacare bill now?

How about forcing all restaurants that have 20 chains or more to comply with that each food items be calorie counted? Just like Nancy Pelosi said, vote on this bill and then you can find out what's in it afterwards.

A requirement tucked into the nation’s massive health care bill will make calorie counts impossible for thousands of restaurants to hide and difficult for consumers to ignore. More than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-throughs.

The new law, which applies to any restaurant with 20 or more locations, directs the Food and Drug Administration to create a new national standard for menu labeling, superseding a growing number of state and city laws. President Barack Obama was expected to sign the health care legislation Tuesday.

The idea is to make sure that customers process the calorie information as they are ordering. Many restaurants currently post nutritional information in a hallway, on a hamburger wrapper or on their Web site. The new law will make calories immediately available for most items.

“The nutrition information is right on the menu or menu board next to the name of the menu item, rather than in a pamphlet or in tiny print on a poster, so that consumers can see it when they are making ordering decisions,” says Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who wrote the provision.

The Associated Press: Health law will make calorie counts hard to ignore

The majority of us do not even count calories, much less count calories at home, except for the perhaps the fitness-lifestyle minded people and those with, say, Type II diabetic conditions. Counting calories is fine. Jst that it's just the pettiness of this bill that will hurt smaller chains which tend to be more local in nature than regional or nationwide ones like Pizza Hut or Chilis. In making changes on a menu it would be easier to do for larger chains. But not so for smaller chains costing them perhaps a few hundred thousand dollars to analyze their food specialties and revamping menus in all restaurants. It becomes harder, financially so, o the smaller sized chains. All this permeates an anti-growth policy treating adults like children. Elitist snobbery over common sense.

Children holding hands (hand chain) on city sidewalk

 

[yizuman]

Well, looks like the cheap 1 dollar menu at McDonald's is gonna disappear and the prices on fast food going up with this new regulation.

Any new regulation always drives prices up.

Yiz

 

[netrox]

"The majority of us do not even count calories, much less count calories at home, except for the perhaps the fitness-lifestyle minded people and those with, say, Type II diabetic conditions. Counting calories is fine. Jst that it's just the pettiness of this bill that will hurt smaller chains which tend to be more local in nature than regional or nationwide ones like Pizza Hut or Chilis. In making changes on a menu it would be easier to do for larger chains. But not so for smaller chains costing them perhaps a few hundred thousand dollars to analyze their food specialties and revamping menus in all restaurants. It becomes harder, financially so, o the smaller sized chains. All this permeates an anti-growth policy treating adults like children. Elitist snobbery over common sense."

That is 100% B.S. Most people don't count, that is true but many experiments have been done to see how people make decisions and they find consistently that those who were given calories in their face were much more likely to change their order to a lower calorie meal than those who were not given the info. That's the goal of the law - make people be aware of how much they're consuming when given the info.

It is NOT hard to calculate how many calories in a given meal. You don't need to hire a nutritionist to get an estimate of each meal. Just get on internet, calculate the calories of each ingredient and add up and that's what you get. How hard is that? It's free. It takes only a few minutes. Redesigning menus? You know that normally, menus are replaced every year?

 

[yizuman]

When a Government regulates food, do you realize how much regulation they actually put into it?

Guess how many words there are in regulating on one single cabbage?

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5050254

Yiz

 

[TXgolfer]

Special post to those 4 people on earth who don't realize fast food isn't healthy.

Also Unhealthy:
Using a hair dryer while taking a bath
Adding water to your milk because it has gotten solid
Swimming in the Gulf wearing a bloody meat swimsuit
Hand cleaning your oven while it is on
Drinking gasoline
Using a product that says it will kill you on the package
Taking scissors in a bounce house
Tickling alligators
Playing jump rope with fallen electrical lines
Eating glass
Trying to saddle a bear
Diving into an empty pool
(Tugging on Superman's Cape,Spitting into the wind,pulling the mask of the lone ranger and messing around with Jim)
Flirting with Cougars (2 legged or 4 legged)
Licking frozen metal
Texting drunk
Highway surfing
Highway skiing
Highway Skiing (Winter)
Pretty much anything on a highway
Humping a rattlesnake
Getting between a mamma and her cubs
Getting between a Chicagoan and their cubs
Wearing a yankee hat to Fenway
Wearing a Red Sox hat to Yankee Stadium

-To be continued-

 

[netrox]

When a Government regulates food, do you realize how much regulation they actually put into it?

Guess how many words there are in regulating on one single cabbage?

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5050254

Yiz

So? You want a bad cabbage?

Whining doesn't help.

 

[yizuman]

What business is to a Government as to what we eat?

Yiz

 

[TWA]

Special post to those 4 people on earth who don't realize fast food isn't healthy.

Also Unhealthy:
Using a hair dryer while taking a bath
Adding water to your milk because it has gotten solid
Swimming in the Gulf wearing a bloody meat swimsuit
Hand cleaning your oven while it is on
Drinking gasoline
Using a product that says it will kill you on the package
Taking scissors in a bounce house
Tickling alligators
Playing jump rope with fallen electrical lines
Eating glass
Trying to saddle a bear
Diving into an empty pool
(Tugging on Superman's Cape,Spitting into the wind,pulling the mask of the lone ranger and messing around with Jim)
Flirting with Cougars (2 legged or 4 legged)
Licking frozen metal
Texting drunk
Highway surfing
Highway skiing
Highway Skiing (Winter)
Pretty much anything on a highway
Humping a rattlesnake
Getting between a mamma and her cubs
Getting between a Chicagoan and their cubs
Wearing a yankee hat to Fenway
Wearing a Red Sox hat to Yankee Stadium

-To be continued-

LOL. My favorites were "Tickling and alligator" and "Humping a rattlesnake."

Maybe I just have a thing for reptiles?

Back on topic though: While I think it's true that most people understand that fast food is unhealthy, I doubt very few people understand just how unhealthy it is, not only to our own bodies, but to our public health, our economy, and our overall happiness.

Watch "Food Inc." and let me know what you think. I think it's a good movie because it makes an economic argument for "health food" without all the bleeding heart moral arguments that you usually get when discussing vegetarianism and health food, animal rights, etc.

There is no question about it; the food we eat is directly related to the unhealthiness of this country.

 

[Tousi]

What business is to a Government as to what we eat?

Yiz

Just nevermind him, Yizuman, cuz it is too late to save him as he is past the suckling stage.

 

[netrox]

What business is to a Government as to what we eat?

To assure safety of our food, what else? You don't realize how BAD our food was before regulations existed. So many died of food poisoning.

Death and the Human Environment

As we regulate the food and water, poisonings went down dramatically.

So yes, it's our business to know what we're eating.

 

[netrox]

I've concluded that cabbage heads have higher IQ's than some of posters here.

 

[TXgolfer]

Just nevermind him, Yizuman, cuz it is too late to save him as he is past the suckling stage.

Yeah I hear whine alot. Seems like that would apply more to the "I can't" party. I can't afford health care Whaaaa! I can't find a job Whaaa! People make fun of me because I am different whaaa! My mortgage company gave me a loan I can't afford whaaa! I am fat because Mc Donald's gave me fattening food Whaaa! My unemployment ends this week after only 6 months whaaa!

Conservatives don't cry, they act. What you hear is not a whine it's a warning.

Mc Donald's is hiring. Time to stop suckling the public teet and grab an oar.

 

[TWA]

Yeah I hear whine alot. Seems like that would apply more to the "I can't" party. I can't afford health care Whaaaa! I can't find a job Whaaa! People make fun of me because I am different whaaa! My mortgage company gave me a loan I can't afford whaaa! I am fat because Mc Donald's gave me fattening food Whaaa! My unemployment ends this week after only 6 months whaaa!

Conservatives don't cry, they act. What you hear is not a whine it's a warning.

Mc Donald's is hiring. Time to stop suckling the public teet and grab an ore.

That's not always 100% true. Just like 100% of liberals are not unemployed, welfare grubbing non-contributors.

And you know it, dude. Doesn't matter what party or philosophy we're talking about, there will always be lazy complainers.

And I'm wondering what good ore will do you when what you really need is an oar.

 

[Bottesini]

That's not always 100% true. Just like 100% of liberals are not unemployed, welfare grubbing non-contributors.

And you know it, dude. Doesn't matter what party or philosophy we're talking about, there will always be lazy complainers.

And I'm wondering what good ore will do you when what you really need is an oar.

Ore would do more good. You could sell it for much more than an oar.

 

[Tousi]

Ore would do more good. You could sell it for much more than an oar.

And use the ore to buy an acre or two and some Super seeds. Then we'd be well on our way to washing that stuff right outta our systems!

 

[TWA]

Okay you smartypants, how much ore are we talking about here? Is this gold ore? Iron ore? Copper? You wanna get technical? Let's get technical!!!!

 

[Bottesini]

Okay you smartypants, how much ore are we talking about here? Is this gold ore? Iron ore? Copper? You wanna get technical? Let's get technical!!!!

Platinum ore! Discovered in the high IQ cabbage fields!

 

[posts from hell]

Special post to those 4 people on earth who don't realize fast food isn't healthy.

Also Unhealthy:
Using a hair dryer while taking a bath
Adding water to your milk because it has gotten solid
Swimming in the Gulf wearing a bloody meat swimsuit
Hand cleaning your oven while it is on
Drinking gasoline
Using a product that says it will kill you on the package
Taking scissors in a bounce house
Tickling alligators
Playing jump rope with fallen electrical lines
Eating glass
Trying to saddle a bear
Diving into an empty pool
(Tugging on Superman's Cape,Spitting into the wind,pulling the mask of the lone ranger and messing around with Jim)
Flirting with Cougars (2 legged or 4 legged)
Licking frozen metal
Texting drunk
Highway surfing
Highway skiing
Highway Skiing (Winter)
Pretty much anything on a highway
Humping a rattlesnake
Getting between a mamma and her cubs
Getting between a Chicagoan and their cubs
Wearing a yankee hat to Fenway
Wearing a Red Sox hat to Yankee Stadium

-To be continued-

Done some of these..

Also done this:
Getting between a pissed off fully grown bull moose and his women.

Oh and eating glass aint all that bad..

 

[Babyblue]

Well they have warning labels on alcohol and cigarettes!

I'm sure it will not be long before certain menu items will have warning label.

Such as... May cause obesity, heart attack, stroke... Etc.

 

[TXgolfer]

That's not always 100% true. Just like 100% of liberals are not unemployed, welfare grubbing non-contributors.

And you know it, dude. Doesn't matter what party or philosophy we're talking about, there will always be lazy complainers.

And I'm wondering what good ore will do you when what you really need is an oar.

Oops. Now I have to call mom and tell her I am not perfect after all.