Cod, Chips And Broccoli Anyone?

[naomi24]

//Plans for a new chippy have come up against a health board's demands for fruit and veg on the menu.

Betsi Cadwaladr health board wants the proposed takeaway in Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd, to sell a "good selection" of fruit and veg.

It wants the menu to have less fat, salt and sugar and is worried an increase in fast food outlets is "detrimental" to people's health.

It is unclear whether customers would relish the prospect of cod and broccoli on the menu.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3zwz4025zo

 

I wonder if the shop will be compensated for food it's obliged to buy - and no doubt bin?

[nailedit]

While they are at it, maybe get vegan restaurants to supply some good protein on their menu like chicken and beef?

[Old_Geezer]

Why would a chippie want to sell food that no one at the chippie ever wants to buy there ? Is the Health Board going to fund it ? (Out of the board's own pocket of course.) The chippies already sell pickled onions and mushy peas, what more veg can people possibly want ?

[Old_Geezer]

If the board is worried about health maybe they can ask for fish to be in breadcrumbs in preference to being utterly saturated with oil, batter. Perhaps too they can investigate whether someone has developed a low carbohydrate potato that makes good chips. While at it, how about low fat crusts on the pies and pasties ? Maybe pure meat hostages too, as over processed food isn't supposed to be good for you. And push the pickled eggs, as eggs are good for you.

[naomi24]

Don't forget the gerkins.  One of your five a day!

[Canary42]

I love broccoli 🥦

[naomi24]

Me too - but not with fish and chips.

[Canary42]

When it comes to guarding public health, we're up against the people who really rule Britain today - the Corporates.

https://www.sustainweb.org/news/dec23-kfc-undermining-councils-health-planning/#:~:text=KFC%20has%20challenged%20at%20least,more%20than%20half%20of%20cases    

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[barry1010]

Chip shops do serve veg - what's wrong with mushy peas and a pickled onion? 

[Togo]

When Betsi Cadwaladr board learns how to run a hospital it may have a case for dipping it's oar in. As it stands the role they are meant to play in maintaining the health of the people in N.Wales is so abysmal that it is nothing short of criminal. They run the hospitals and health service so badly that a trip to A&E is nothing short of a death wish and a stay in hospital is likely to be terminal. The hospitals have been placed under special measure twice by the equally dreadful Welsh Government. They are both stark examples of a left wing culture gaining absolute control. If it was my chippy I would tell them to "Fish Off".   

[abbeylee90]

Sounds good

[Atheist]

The BBC item is not very clear about what's happening. Is it about encouragement  of healthy eating? Is it about requiring healthy food to be sold, or simply recommending it? There seems to be a planning application for change of use, but I doubt that planning laws could control the type of food proposed.

[jourdain2]

It's a 'chippie' - it sells fish and chips! Low fat, healthy fish if you want - just remove the batter - and chips, good carbohydrate and you don't have to eat all of them. Can't stand'mushy peas' but they are veg and someone mentioned pickled onions.

Go elsewhere if you  want different food.

[curlyfries81]

I love broccoli, as do my husband and kids, but not with fish and chips. I can't see many customers going to their local chippie and ordering fruit and veg and therefore there could be a lot of food wastage before these "masterminds" come to their senses.

[10ClarionSt]

Some chippies also sell black peas and butter beans. Not mixed together though! Actually, I've not seen a chippy selling butter beans for years. Tis just a memory folks, but black peas are still on sale at some.

[naomi24]

They don't sell that in the south of England, Clarion.  I'd never heard of black peas until someone on here told me about them.

[barry1010]

It's grey peas where I live

[1ozzy]

Fish and chips followed by a tasty, juicy fruit platter sounds really good to me.

They can shove the broccoli, etc. where the sun doesn't shine from.

[tomus42]

"Outrage as health nazis attack good old British fish and chips and force us to eat broccoli". Say idiots everywhere.

Here's a thought. If you go down the chippy and they're selling stuff you don't want to eat, don't buy it.

[douglas9401]

Haddock, chips and a miniature tree please.

[tomus42]

I have a chippy tea most Fridays.

Evey single time they're offering  some godawful thing I don't want to eat. Kebab, chicken nuggets, whatever.

Guess what, I don't order it.