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2006-06-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tu3031 2006-06-02 20:01|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why don't these people just leave us alone?

Spoken like a smoker. Really, ban the smoking, the obese are next as the burden on health care and pograms to slam your evil, offensive, ugly (dirty for the smokers, mind you) harmful oversized, bus-hoggin buts (buts, also for the smokers).

Enjoy big boy.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-02 20:46|| 2006-06-02 20:46|| Front Page Top

#2 calorie info? great - anything else and they'll get my fork in their forehead. Nanny state asshats can't wait for (or don't expect) their high priestess Hillary(!) to be elected. Trying to set the groundwork now. When she's elected - all choices will be removed. Low cal ~~Soylent green~~ nutricious crackerswill be your staple

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-02 20:49|| 2006-06-02 20:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I wish the nannies would stop trying to run our lives.

I'm all for restaurants that provide nutrition information -- Red Lobster has a section of the menu that gives calories, fat, maybe even fiber. Those three are all I need to figure out if something works in my diet. Applebee's even has a Weight Watchers section of the menu, and it's not half bad.

Beyond that, hell, I have a brain. I had Benihana's for lunch; I knew it would be pretty much everything I could eat for the day. I made the trade-off.

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest."If companies don't tell them, people have no way of knowing how many calories they are being served at restaurants.

Complete crap. Hands up anyone who doesn't know that a delicious slice of pizza has more calories than a salad? Or that low-fat dressing has fewer calories than an olive-oil vinaigrette?

And, gee, if you ask, 99% of all restaurants will make substitutions. Get a baked potato with salsa instead of a loaded potato; or vegetables instead of fries.

And, hey, every once in a while, get the food you want, regardless of whether CSPI would approve or not.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-02 21:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-02 21:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm on my way to Washington to personally shoot those quiche eating sons of bitches!

Posted by George S. Patton 2006-06-02 22:08|| 2006-06-02 22:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I demand to see a photo of Penelope Slade Royall. I don't need Penelope to be giving me eating lessons -- let her do a pilot program on Teddy Kennedy first.

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-02 22:12|| 2006-06-02 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Yea they will be loving it. Cutting the portions but not the price.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-02 23:16|| 2006-06-02 23:16|| Front Page Top

#7 What ever happened to "eat less and exercise"?

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-06-02 23:46|| 2006-06-02 23:46|| Front Page Top

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