ChatterBank1 min ago
Ban On Junk Food Ads
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I wondered what counts as junk food given the government plans. Thankfully the BBC provides the answer.
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🙂 I'm sure it would've taken less space listing what isn't junk. Water, meat, fresh vegetables, err... that's it !
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"...meat..."
You mustn't eat meat, OG. Bad for the planet, dontch'a know.
"Will they also be banning adverts for the Deliveroo, JustEat etc?"
A very good point.
Actually if they were true to their word they would ban the delivery of cooked food entirely. The order of predcedence for procuring cooked food should be this:
1. Buy the ingredients and cook it yourself.
2. Go to a restaurant, order it and sit there to eat it.
3. (As a last resort) go to a takeaway establishment, order the food, wait for it to be cooked and take it home.
The idea that vast quantities of cooked food, most of it entirely unwholesome, should be biked about on the back of scooters for people too lazy to feed themselves, is one of the main reasons for obesity. Making it difficult for people to be fed without getting up from the armchair will help combat it.
That said, nothing the government does will prevent people gorging on usuitable food. I was visiting somebody in hospital last week. In a nearby bed the patient (vastly overweight) had a visitor (similarly vastly overweight) who brought in a pack of sixteen large sausage rolls. The pair of them proceeded to scoff these, one after another and by the time I left they had eaten about ten between them. Did the visitor buy them after seeing an advert for them? Of course not and banning such adverts will not make the slightest difference. It will make the Prime Minister feel good though, as he would have done his bit to "save" the NHS.
I agree with judge on takeaway deliveries. Yes I have ordered but really it's lazyness, I should go and get it on the rare occasions I do have a takeaway. Can you imagine the hush hush black market that would spring up? You'd have young lads on bikes delivering Pizza with their weed and cocaine! ....and those cop shows....we caught this guy with a 15 indian takeaways clearly not for personal use...lock him up!
We've never ordered a home delivery meal (except once when in a holiday apartment for one night), but some neighbours do it regularly. One man has a deliveroo type delivery every single evening when his wife works away on business, which is most weeks and can sometimes can be for 5 days at a time.
And for another neighbour, the family have a breakfast delivery every Saturday morning as well as their regular Friday night pizzas and occasional Indian meal. It may not be true but they claim not to have cooked a family meal for ages. Oh, and they regularly get ice creams in summer when the ice cream van calls. They have the waistlines to show it and both parents have ongoing heart issues.
