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Is Chipotle basically saying they don't know how to write:
Pork: add X calories, Xg fat
Hot salsa: add X calories, Xg fat
Grilled veggies: add X calories
Guacamole: add X calories, Xg fat
On a sign?
Is Chipotle basically saying they don't know how to write:
Pork: add X calories, Xg fat
Hot salsa: add X calories, Xg fat
Grilled veggies: add X calories
Guacamole: add X calories, Xg fat
On a sign?
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As a hearing-impaired individual, I'd be faxing/emailing Surf City, were I a customer needing this info, to tell them that due to their short-sightedness, and lack of caring about their customers' needs, I will now be patronizing the competition.
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But isn't the problem really that these companies are just lying when they say they simply can't do it? I doubt Wendy's, Chipotle, and even Surf City Squeeze are going to go out of business when NY passes a revised version of the law that is upheld. They'll find a way to make it work.
But isn't the problem really that these companies are just flat-out lying when they say they simply cannot comply with the requirement? I doubt that Wendy's, Chipotle, and even Surf City Squeeze are going to go out of business when NY passes a revised regulation that is upheld. They'll find a way to make it work.
Apologies if this is a double post -- Consumerist seems to be eating my comments for some reason today.
@Beerad: we appreciate the double posts and apology. keeps us on our toes...you know, just in case, uh, something. (runs out door screaming)
This is getting ridiculous. If the government had their way we would all be eating whole wheat which tastes like cardboard and vegetables. First its transfats, now they are tricking people into eating healthy. Its extremely hard to even find lard, chocolate milk made with WHOLE milk instead of the watery 2% or skim, heavy cream, etc.. Id rather give up 5 years of my life to eat what tastes good instead of eating tasteless crap just to live another 5 years eating tasteless crap. If it tastes good, it probably isnt healthy but so what!!!!
Not to mention by putting all this crap on the menu there is less room to list the food or if there is room itll be in size 2 font and old people wont be able to read it.
It's such a bunch of crap--the whole idea of displaying how much (potential) energy and alleged nutrition is contained within a food item.
There wouldn't be such a problem, in the first place, if most food weren't processed until it's non-nutritional / sugary / fatty / poisonous.
If people could or would confine themselves to simple (whole foods), they would have no need for all this legislation and there would be a lot less worry.
@skrom: I invite you to try my pancetta-laden amatriciana pasta if you don't believe that whole foods can be tasty and savory. Whole food doesn't mean no fat (it just means no artificial garbage). Yum, pancetta.
And knowing what the calorie content of food is can only help everyone make better decisions (you can choose the same food, they're not taking it away; but others might make a different selection once they know how many calories they are actually getting).
Mmm, now I'm hungry for pasta. Let's have a spaghetti party, everyone.
@kimsama:
No they arent taking it away but the idea is to persuade people to not eat those things and if enough people dont eat it it WILL go away due to not enough demand. Its a backasswards way of banning these foods
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This is all the people's fault for having no self control. You really don't need 6 of those $1 double cheeseburgers, ok Porky. And ordering a Diet Coke with them looks stupid too.
@skrom: Skrom, your point relies on the false assumption that other people won't make the same choice as you (i.e., to eat tasty food despite healthier, but less tasty, alternatives) in the face of nutritional information. You are not unique in making that choice.
There is evidence that your sky-is-falling predictions won't bear out: People continue to smoke, and tobacco companies continue to make healthy profits (no pun intended), despite gov't regulations requiring warning labels.
Next problem - not enough surface area on the dirty water dog carts to display the list of byproducts and foreign matter contained in each hot dog.
(They're still delicious though.)