From the producers of "The Smoking Ban," bring you "The Food Ban"

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I have a dream of opening a restaurant with two menus - one for fat people, consisting of only lean, nutritious foods - and one for skinny people, consisting of all the greasy shtein that's semi-fit to eat.

The catch is that skinny people can order off either menu, but fat people have no choice.


I wonder how quickly I'd be sued.

[rjs246]

No I don't care because taste isn't the issue. The issue is that people can and will eat whatever the farg they want and people who use food as their drug more often than not don't give a shtein about what they are putting into their body so it might as well be arsenic because as long as it's food they're going to eat it.

No different than nicotine or alcohol.

[rjs246]

I have a dream of opening a restaurant with two menus - one for fat people, consisting of only lean, nutritious foods - and one for skinny people, consisting of all the greasy shtein that's semi-fit to eat.

The catch is that skinny people can order off either menu, but fat people have no choice.


I wonder how quickly I'd be sued.

This is easily the best idea you've ever had.

[Diomedes]

transfats hurt no one but the people who choose to eat them...

because people choose to ingest them deliberately...yeah.

also...they cost us money, which I have recently learned is tantamount to physical harm, so whoop there it is

[ice grillin you]

trust me i want them gone...but like rjs said if youre gonna have cigarettes around why not transfats....whats the difference as long as its made known to the general public that they both are killers

[Diomedes]

the difference is that transfats offer NO benefit.  None.  Cigarettes make you feel good, even if it's just the relaxation of your jones. 

if you're a fat slob who eats as your drug, you can do so just as effectively without transfats

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I have a dream of opening a restaurant with two menus - one for fat people, consisting of only lean, nutritious foods - and one for skinny people, consisting of all the greasy shtein that's semi-fit to eat.

The catch is that skinny people can order off either menu, but fat people have no choice.


I wonder how quickly I'd be sued.

This is easily the best idea you've ever had.

That doesn't reflect positively on the quality of my other ideas, but I'll take it.

[rjs246]

Nicotine in pure form = poison. In cigs it takes a long time to kill.
Alcohol in pure form = poison. In beer it takes a long time to kill. Though booze can kill in one sitting whereas cigarettes cannot.
Trasfat in pure form = poison. In food it takes a long time to kill.

I don't see any differences.

[Diomedes]

nicotine and alcohol offer a benefit to the consumer
transfats do not.

there's your difference homeboy

[Cerevant]

Let me put it in terms you can understand:  There isn't anything trans-fat can do that bacon fat doesn't do better.

[Beermonkey]

Nicotine in pure form = poison. In cigs it takes a long time to kill.
Alcohol in pure form = poison. In beer it takes a long time to kill. Though booze can kill in one sitting whereas cigarettes cannot.
Trasfat in pure form = poison. In food it takes a long time to kill.

I don't see any differences.

Transfat is a harmful food additive that can easily be replaced with a non or less-harmful alternative, whose banning will evoke a minimum of consumer outrage, except from hypersensitive types in the Boston area, who also fear flashing cartoon characters.

[ice grillin you]

the difference is that transfats offer NO benefit.  None.  Cigarettes make you feel good, even if it's just the relaxation of your jones. 

if you're a fat slob who eats as your drug, you can do so just as effectively without transfats


cigarettes only make you feel good because they feed an addiciton that the cigarette itself caused...to me they are far worse than transfats which granted are horrible just as cigarettes are but at least they dont come with a high addicition rate

again im not arguing for transfats but you look silly defending cigarettes and not transfats....im guessing because youre a smoker

[Diomedes]

I don't smoke, haven't for more than 4 years.  But thanks for the insult.

Fact is, smoking offers a benefit.  It is true that people enjoy it, regardless of the addiction.  Hard for you to believe I'm sure, but that's alright.  You can't be expected to think much in matters like these.  Let's be clear..I'm not saying cigarette smoking isn't harmful..just that there are aspects of it which people enjoy. 

Not so with transfats.  For these, there is only harm.

it is also true that there is no alternative to smoking (other than not smoking).  there IS alternative to transfats..it's not as though donuts will cease to exist, or suddenly become $40 per, if you outlaw transfats.  they'll still be there, they'll still taste good, they'll still be cheap.

[ice grillin you]

youd do much better just to crusade against transfats....your comical defense of cigarettes eliminates your credibility

[Diomedes]

as I said, can't expect you to have an open mind on the subject.  the possibility that someone could get a benefit from smoking doesn't compute because you won't think...it gets in the way of your high horse opinion.