Sweets and junk everywhere, but try to find a healthy place, now that's a challenge.

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:09AM #1

So I was in Tesco today and was walking down the aisles when I noticed that they only seem to sell junk food. There are 5 food aisles in the tesco in Rathmines and three of them are donated to junk food.

Add to this the fact that every news agent and petrol station has a massive row of sweets and crisps at the counter.

Then anywhere you try to get food is mostly populated by fast food burgers, chips, pizza but try to find any kind of convenient place to buy healthy food and you're out of luck.

Is it any wonder there are so many fat people around?

I think it's time we took action and start to remove these kind of products from supermarkets and newsagents. There should be dedicated shops for these products which require a licence to operate, and if newsagents and petrol station wish to sell these products they can only be limited to a small amount of shell space.

These products cause more harm then any illegal drug, and at the rate we are going everyone in the country will have type 2 diabetes.

I know myself that I gave up eating these things a few years ago and even now it is so tempting just seeing them sitting there every time I am in a shop. It's like having a former cocaine addict having to look at mountains of cocaine every time they want to buy milk.

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:12AM

kjl wrote: »

I think it's time we took action and start to remove these kind of products from supermarkets and newsagents. There should be dedicated shops for these products which require a licence to operate

These products cause more harm then any illegal drug

Oh DO shut up! :rolleyes:

CliffHuxtabel · 17-11-2011 03:13AM

kjl wrote: »

It's like having a former cocaine addict having to look at mountains of cocaine every time they want to buy milk.

You make a good point cocaine.....I mean OP

Hasmunch · 17-11-2011 03:13AM

kjl wrote: »

It's like having a former cocaine addict having to look at mountains of cocaine every time they want to buy milk.

Ah the good old cocaine aisle in Tesco... things haven't been quite the same since they got rid of it.

CopperPipe · 17-11-2011 03:14AM

1850 715 815

LighterGuy · 17-11-2011 03:14AM

kjl wrote: »

I think it's time we took action and start to remove these kind of products from supermarkets and newsagents. There should be dedicated shops for these products which require a licence to operate, and if newsagents and petrol station wish to sell these products they can only be limited to a small amount of shell space.

You'll find the reason why Tesco and other places sell so much junk food is because there is a big market for it but more importantly it sells.

NuckyT · 17-11-2011 03:14AM

kjl wrote: »

I think it's time we took action and start to remove these kind of products from supermarkets and newsagents. There should be dedicated shops for these products which require a licence to operate, and if newsagents and petrol station wish to sell these products they can only be limited to a small amount of shell space.

These products cause more harm then any illegal drug, and at the rate we are going everyone in the country will have type 2 diabetes.

Isn't that stealing?

Napper Hawkins · 17-11-2011 03:14AM

kjl wrote: »

So I was in Tesco today and was walking down the aisles when I noticed that they only seem to sell junk food. There are 5 food aisles in the tesco in Rathmines and three of them are donated to junk food.

Add to this the fact that every news agent and petrol station has a massive row of sweets and crisps at the counter.

Then anywhere you try to get food is mostly populated by fast food burgers, chips, pizza but try to find any kind of convenient place to buy healthy food and you're out of luck.

Is it any wonder there are so many fat people around?

I think it's time we took action and start to remove these kind of products from supermarkets and newsagents. There should be dedicated shops for these products which require a licence to operate, and if newsagents and petrol station wish to sell these products they can only be limited to a small amount of shell space.

These products cause more harm then any illegal drug, and at the rate we are going everyone in the country will have type 2 diabetes.

I know myself that I gave up eating these things a few years ago and even now it is so tempting just seeing them sitting there every time I am in a shop. It's like having a former cocaine addict having to look at mountains of cocaine every time they want to buy milk.

So basically because you gave up ****e you want to force everyone else to give up too so you don't have to suffer alone?

You realise how ridiculous you sound?

We should basically ban walking because no one got hit by a car by having a bath.

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:15AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

Oh DO shut up! :rolleyes:

Well obviously from your user name you would just die if they got rid of sweets from the shops. Lucky you have your computer screen there to protect you from your waistline.

Hasmunch · 17-11-2011 03:16AM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

We should basically ban walking because no one got hit by a car by having a bath.

I agree.... wait what????

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:17AM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

So basically because you gave up ****e you want to force everyone else to give up too so you don't have to suffer alone?

You realise how ridiculous you sound?

We should basically ban walking because no one got hit by a car by having a bath.

I didn't say anything about banning, just regulating them. Having specific shop to sell the stuff and legal requirements that don't allow them to be shoved down peoples necks.

Napper Hawkins · 17-11-2011 03:23AM

kjl wrote: »

I didn't say anything about banning, just regulating them. Having specific shop to sell the stuff and legal requirements that don't allow them to be shoved down peoples necks.

Adults should be free to make their own decisions.

Something this joke of an island has yet to understand.

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:24AM

kjl wrote: »

Well obviously from your user name you would just die if they got rid of sweets from the shops. Lucky you have your computer screen there to protect you from your waistline.

What you just said made no sense whatsoever!

smk89 · 17-11-2011 03:25AM

Today i drank an entire bottle of tesco's brand of redbull.
It tastes all the sweeter knowing people like you eat salad.

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:26AM

kjl wrote: »

I didn't say anything about banning, just regulating them. Having specific shop to sell the stuff and legal requirements that don't allow them to be shoved down peoples necks.

I think you'll find people shove them down their own necks.

I think you'll find these people are adults who are more than capable of making their own decisions as to what to eat.

Your idea is one of the most ridiculous things i've ever read on Boards and that's really saying something!

Hasmunch · 17-11-2011 03:26AM

kjl wrote: »

I didn't say anything about banning, just regulating them. Having specific shop to sell the stuff and legal requirements that don't allow them to be shoved down peoples necks.

Why bother with regulating them, that would just make us become a nanny state.
Lets instead hope a dictator comes into power and removes all unhealthy foods from circulation in Ireland. We dont need choice we need someone else to tell us whats good for us..

Oranage2 · 17-11-2011 03:26AM

How come people weren't fat when the church was in charge?

I blame Atheism for making people fat!

To combat fatness I think we should extend the angelus to an hour.

Hasmunch · 17-11-2011 03:27AM

Also i would like to add

YOU DON'T WIN FRIENDS WITH SALAD

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:28AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

Why bother with regulating them, that would just make us become a nanny state.

BECOME a nanny state? I can't even buy a bottle of beer after 10pm!

smk89 · 17-11-2011 03:29AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

Also i would like to add

YOU DON'T WIN FRIENDS WITH SALAD

Time for a 2am conga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6xVQwIOYQ

Hasmunch · 17-11-2011 03:31AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

BECOME a nanny state? I can't even buy a bottle of beer after 10pm!

Well thats simple really, if we could buy drink after 10pm there's a very high chance that we will all become alcoholics.

Pace2008 · 17-11-2011 03:31AM

Where to find a healthy place? You could have considered wheeling your trolley 10 metres towards the fruit-and-veg section.

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:35AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

Well thats simple really, if we could buy drink after 10pm there's a very high chance that we will all become alcoholics.

Hmmm..........

I would very much like to subscribe to your newsletter.

LighterGuy · 17-11-2011 03:36AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

Well thats simple really, if we could buy drink after 10pm there's a very high chance that we will all become alcoholics.

I dont mean to be rude, but that is ridiculous.
Sure off-licences were open till 11.30 during the week and 12.30 (fri/sat) for years. Didnt make more alcoholics and did it really stop so called "binge" drinking?

You still hear people drunk as f**k singing while walking home from a local club :P and town is still busy with drunks at 4am on weekends. Did it really change a thing? .. expect annoying people with having to buy their alcohol before 10pm.

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:38AM

LighterGuy wrote: »

I dont mean to be rude, but that is ridiculous.

I could be wrong but i'm pretty sure that was the point.

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:39AM

Pace2008 wrote: »

Where to find a healthy place? You could have considered wheeling your trolley 10 metres towards the fruit-and-veg section.

I did specify fast food, you don't need to tell me about the fruit and veg section thank you very much.

Laisurg · 17-11-2011 03:40AM

kjl wrote: »

I didn't say anything about banning, just regulating them. Having specific shop to sell the stuff and legal requirements that don't allow them to be shoved down peoples necks.

There is a thing called choice you know.... Good luck with your campaign, you'll need it :pac:

MrStuffins · 17-11-2011 03:41AM

kjl wrote: »

I did specify fast food, you don't need to tell me about the fruit and veg section thank you very much.

If you know where the Fruit & Veg are then what's your problem?

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:42AM

LighterGuy wrote: »

I dont mean to be rude, but that is ridiculous.
Sure off-licences were open till 11.30 during the week and 12.30 (fri/sat) for years. Didnt make more alcoholics and did it really stop so called "binge" drinking?

You still hear people drunk as f**k singing while walking home from a local club :P and town is still busy with drunks at 4am on weekends. Did it really change a thing? .. expect annoying people with having to buy their alcohol before 10pm.

Of course not, there are no alcoholics in Ireland :rolleyes:

I do feel that if people had to actively go looking for sweets it would lower the consumption rate.

LighterGuy · 17-11-2011 03:43AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

I could be wrong but i'm pretty sure that was the point.

No,
If I was going to be genuinely rude i would of said something worse than ridiculous. It was just a "Not being bad, but i think you're wrong" post as opposed to "i think you are a fu*king fool" tone implied....Like for example if I said "Mrstuffings, i dont mean to be rude but i think you are an offense little knob-end" - that would be me being rude. If I ever say that of course

kjl · 17-11-2011 03:44AM

Laisurg wrote: »

There is a thing called choice you know.... Good luck with your campaign, you'll need it :pac:

Right, well then why can't I smoke cannabis or take ecstasy instead of drinking?

Sweets and junk everywhere, but try to find a healthy place, now that's a challenge.

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