If Im ever denied my sugar water at a restaurant i will simply cry, scream, piss, shit and fart until I have my way or am forced to leave
Average hexbear user.
Although kinda based…
So, free refills on alcohol is okay, but not sugar???
You can have free refills your beer but not your alcohol free beer lol
You can have free refills of coke if a bit of alcohol is added…
It also says no added sugar, so they should be able to refill my vodka orange as much as they want because the sugar in orange juice is natural.
What a wonderful law.
taking away your cup in communist ingerlund
I am failing to understand how come a choice of a person or bad parenting should be enforced. Like if a person wants to drink more of sugary drinks he likes, it is purely up to him, right? Or parents letting their children drink as much as they want. That shit is purely on a customer. Why would anyone regulate that? Focus on other things like littering, public smoking and drinking, drug selling. This hast to be one of the least important things to regulate.
They can drink as much as they like. There’s nothing stopping someone buying another drink.
Obesity is a huge public health concern that should be treated seriously and we should be steering our culture into making better health decisions.
Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. Thats a doubling in a decade. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight. The cost to the economy through sick days, reduced productivity and premature death is around £100bn per year.
Obesity now kills more than drinking or smoking in England and Scotland. There is already a bill in parliament for a phased total smoking ban.
Me and you (hopefully) both understand that that is not a human mistake rather than mega corpos profit-hungry strategies to hook people up on sugary drinks. Instead of limiting peoples choices, we should strafe to punish companies for their aggressive strategies towards customers. As simple as regulate how much actual sugar goes in a drink. People will complain and hopefully drink less if it is less sweet. The ones who would keep drinking would ingest less sugar. Win-win for humanity, lose-win for corpos. This new rule looks like is fighting the cause in a backwards direction.
Sugar in drinks was already regulated. It wasn’t enough.
Does that mean the diet versions are unaffected?
If customers are allowed to help themselves then it’s totally unenforcible. It’s not like the restaurants are going to police this and a sticker isn’t going to deter anyone!
Probably the best solution honestly… In chain restaurants that don’t offer free refills, I quite frequently just take one anyway. Nobody ever stops me. If I asked they might say no, but I don’t ask.
Not at all unenforcable. Just needs an RFID on the cup or on a token handed out by staff.
I was referring to the sticker deterrent method as outlined by the article but let’s discuss.
So, every company selling sugary drink refills has to now spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on new cups or tags and the associated tech to make the system work for every outlet. Then, what if I buy a coke zero then decide I want a refill of full fat? Or, visa versa? Gets a bit complicated there.
They could also have a tap behind the counter for sugary drinks and refill taps with ‘diet’ versions accessible to patrons. But again that would mean installing another bunch of taps in every outlet.
Furthermore, who’s going to be checking up on this, making sure restaurants are following the law? As it’s not a safety issue it doesn’t fall within the FSA’s remit so there’s literally no one checking up on this.
It’s a virtue signalling nothing law. Sure, you can enforce anything if you throw money at it, but this is the UK. Currently scraping the barrel in the race to the bottom. If the sticker doesn’t stop you there’s not going to be any consequences.
Obesity is the biggest health crisis in Britain right now. This is a necessary step.
Yes, I forgot how obese people are famously terrified of stickers.
A far better way to tackle the obesity crisis would be to implement stricter laws around processed food additives, how food is labelled and priced, and educating people about their diet at an early age instead of this uninforcible nanny state nonsense.
They could, if they were serious about doing something, make it illegal to sell drinks with a high sugar content… Or make unhealthy food packaging unappealing like they did with tabacco products… Include healthy eating in the national curriculum…
This isn’t going to change anything and makes the government look stupid.
How long before coca cola launch an unsweetened version and Nandos lets your Bring Your Own Bag (of sugar)?
This only affects sugary drinks, so their Zero and diet options should be exempt. Although a book I read recently was showing evidence that artificial sweeteners can also drive obesity, so we might start seeing things affecting those drinks too.
Sounds like a good ‘nudge’ law - David Cameron would be proud
But yet people are still allowed to smoke?
A bill to phase out smoking is working through the parliamentary process at the moment. It will introduce a progressive ban so those aged 15 when it passes will never legally smoke, licencing for the sale of tobacco and vape products, and the power to ban smoking near hospitals and schools.
I don’t fundamentally have a problem with this personally, but it’s one more nail in the coffin full of nails that is the labour party. Their timing is impeccable, as ever.
Obesity is one more thing destroying the NHS, besides politicians gutting it for parts, and not for the sake of your freedom but for the sake of keeping people addicted to product.
Please tell me it’s just England and Wales please tell me it’s just England and Wales
But i want to drink hummingbird food in large quantities in a single sitting!
