Comments on: “Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants” https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Lincoln https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8926 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:14:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8926 me, me, me … I know …

This computer.

ooops …

How could you not figure that out?

What do I win, Mr. Clause? How bout a super-size #2 ?!

]]> By: P.K. Scott https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8925 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:19:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8925 L.A. will become Anthony Bourdain paradise. No fast food restaurants only poorly regulated hot dog/taco/chicken on a stick stands like the developing world.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8924 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:14:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8924 SC,

We give up – please share your infinite wisdom.

Something else that started in the 80’s (well, 1979, I think, officially) – the FOOD PYRAMID. You know, the one where the government officially states (for entirly political reasons, I might add) that your diet should be largely carbohydrates? Obesity and diebetes both shot up starting at almost xactly that time.

]]> By: Supremacy Claus https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8923 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:27:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8923 No, no, no. Something far more destructive, far bigger, far more disabling, than all those factors combined.

It’s right in front of your nose, right now. Just look straight ahead, and you have it.

]]> By: Xmas https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8922 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:31:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8922 Supremacy Claus…

Smoking rates started declining.

Factory Farming, hormones and antibiotic injections.

A long running boom in the global economy.

The beginning of the end for (big, scary capital C) Communism.

The first generation of children to be immunized from the worst of childhood diseases.

The Drug War ramps up, Cocaine becomes the drug of choice.

Disco died. Notice that the climb in obesity rates closely follows the death of disco in each country.

]]> By: Supremacy Claus https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8921 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:37:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8921 One small problem. Fast food did not cause the obesity epidemic. Fast food preceded it by decades.

Why are the French and the Chinese getting obese too, with low availability of fastfood?

If I say the epidemic began in the 1980’s, what else began in the 1980’s?

]]> By: MarkJ https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8920 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:50:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8920 Just what El-Lay needs: a Food Gestapo.

My modest proposal for this new organization’s motto:

“Eat your broccoli and enjoy it. Or else.”

]]> By: kimsch https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8919 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:14:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8919 Limiting fast food joints in the poorest areas will also lose jobs in those areas. Once again, Women, minorities hurt worst.

]]> By: ras https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/09/limits-proposed-on-fast-food-restaurants/comment-page-1/#comment-8918 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:04:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5322#comment-8918 Licensed fat, complete with ration cards and black markets; you know it’s coming.

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