Apparently Great Britain has taken a tip from the Frenchies. A few years ago, the Cream of Europe, home to pastries galore, declared war on soft drinks:
They seemed to be the only country willing to treat sugar the same way most civilized nations treat tobacco: as HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. Maybe addicts would quit, or slow down, if the stuff became more expensive.
In New York, Mayor Bloomberg was reviled as a meddling obnoxious "NANNY," for simply suggesting a ban on oversized CUPS.
The guy wasn't saying, "Let's double the price on sugary drinks," but "let's remind people that it's not necessary to guzzle a fucking LITER bottle at one sitting, or 32 fucking ounces of BIG GULP at a baseball game or 7-11."
Abetted by strong lobbying from the soda companies, Bloomberg's bill was defeated by corrupt congress assholes. The city's moronic residents, very similar to greedy stupid self-entitled fans of Zinfart and Kim Dotcom and Asshole Assange, declared it was "Freedom of Speech," and that the government shouldn't interfere with their "rights."
Mayor Bloomberg insisted NOBODY was interfering with anyone's right to turn obese and diabetic; it was just "Hey, slob, if you've finished 12 ounces, which IS enough, you'll have to waddle back to the counter to get another cup. The exercise MIGHT do you good."
NAH.
So out of nowhere, in the midst of a package of sour surprises for the British, Gidders got some actual applause and congrats for pushing through a tax on soft drinks.
His face almost tearful, his voice almost trembling (the Tony Blair effect), overcome with his own brilliance, Gidders declared he OWED it to his children to DO SOMETHING for the FUTURE of his country.
Something like that. He was held up on either side by sympathetic politicians.
No question about it, the average person is an imbecile. The average person is still a child who will over-eat, gorge on sweets, and simply accept being obscenely overweight, right Darren? Right Amy? Right Bill?
It seems every country has come to accept "full size" women as "attractive" and "fat shaming" as nasty.
It seems that the standards of beauty have changed to include huge asses.
At best, all women should look like ADELE, and all men should look like Stephen Fry.
Once in a while, some fatso actually slims down (Ricky Gervais, Sam Smith) but usually not. Aside from being visually repulsive, these people are destroying their health and NORMAL people are having to spend tax dollars on first aid for these blobs and their heart attacks, diabetes and emergency care.
In America, there's been a SLIGHT decrease in soft drink sales. Probably not in fast-food sales (Mexicans are flooding the country and new Taco Bell shops are opening all over, along with Chipotle restaurants). Burger King and McDonalds are offering dollar flab-fests to coax in the poor who can't afford the salads and fish and other things rich Yuppies and Maccas like.
American convenience stores might have more bottled water, bottled juice and "sparkling water" or lightly carbonated juice drinks, but Coke and Pepsi aren't in a panic yet.
IF I'M BEING HONEST, the media has done a fairly good job of covering the sugar problem, and pointing out there's six or seven teaspoons of sugar in EVERY can of Coke, and in letting the public know that "high fructose corn syrup" and other weasel words are just a cover for the fact that the content of most of these drinks is WATER and then SUGAR. I certainly have cut down to the "treat" of a can of soda, and usually it's one that is more sparkling than gooey. But most people are dumb cows and need government intervention.
Gidders, of course, is being wily. He's not taxing PEOPLE. He's taxing COMPANIES. The average person looks at this news and says, "Oh, he's great, he's not forcing me to pay an extra tax on a can of Coke, like I'll have to do on a bottle of Vodka or a pack of cigs." Oh no. It'll be Coke and Pepsi who'll suddenly raise the price of a can and simply say "our expenses went up."
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