wow how stupid is this

[Mr.Sister]

hmmm maybe they should only be allowed government approved culturally correct sauces, ok, give them bearnaise sauce to dip their french fries in, culture correct and made with clarified butter and egg yolks, so much healthier than ketchup ,WAIT perhaps deep fried potatoes are the unhealthy thing NOT the frigging ketchup that's not part of their culture...free will is healthy.. too bad it's not a condiment.

1.) Yes, the deep fried potatoes are unhealthy. In the article stands, that french (actually Belgian) fries are restricted together WITH the ketchup. Like Anvil said, I think the article is blowing the "bad american ketchup"-thing up a lot.
2.) Free will? It's still their free will to go to a store around the corner and buy some french fries with ketchup and a snickers (if they want also with ketchup) over there. They're not prohibiting ketchup in their whole country, they just wanna stopp offering it in schools. The government should neither offer cigarettes or alcohol at public schools, so why unhealthy food.
And numero tres.) Like I said: I also think the article's not really to be taken to serious. What stands in the article about the people, who are actually planning all of this? "French officials" and "chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants". That seems like one guy said something, and the medias are making out of it: "France hates American ketchup, boycott planned"

 

[Enemy242]

The government should neither offer cigarettes or alcohol at public schools, so why unhealthy food.

i don't know where you went to school to get the idea that there were schools out there serving up cigarettes and alcohol for lunch or breaks. i don't think the image of 8-14 year olds puffing up and slamming 40's would do very well under the scrutiny of well, anyone in society. your perception and why it deviates from just about everyone else is quite the mystery.

 

[neal]

when i was chompin some fries in ole gay parie they gave me some sauce that seemed very close to mayo with some herbs in it or something, i cant imagine ketchup is worse for you than that shit

 

[Mr.Sister]

i don't know where you went to school to get the idea that there were schools out there serving up cigarettes and alcohol for lunch or breaks. i don't think the image of 8-14 year olds puffing up and slamming 40's would do very well under the scrutiny of well, anyone in society. your perception and why it deviates from just about everyone else is quite the mystery.

I never said, that there actually are schools selling that stuff. Either I run against the language barriere, or you didn't get, what I was trying to say.

To make my point clear: Yes, that wouldn't do well in society, but why does the picture of a 150lb 10 year old eating a fucking burger he got from his school? I tried to make a comparison between these things.

 

[Frosties]

You're all missing the point:

French culture is stupid.

 

[derek]

You've all missed the point.

This doesn't matter at all.

 

[Anvil]

You've all missed the point.

This doesn't matter at all.

 

[Karmic]

yeah I'm kinda finding it hard to see this as "oppressive", really. It doesn't really hurt much with schools limiting what kind of foods to eat when it doesn't really affect breakfasts and dinners, does it? Parents with good oversight over the whole thing should be able to make the judgement what else their kids eat anyways.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

ICS Vortex's Storm Seeker is fucking cool.

 

[Dead Winter]

More people need to be oppressed when it comes to eating junk food. If you're obese and eating unhealthy shit, I want you taken away in handcuffs.

Seriously though, the reason your insurance is so high in the US is because the US is full of beached whales stuffing their pie holes with blooming onions and driving up heart disease rates, which in turn makes your insurance rates go up. So no, you can't eat whatever you want no matter how fat you are because you're literally making the quality of life of everyone else around you worse due to your bad habits. They went all nazi on cigarettes so they should do the same for food, seeing how it's the number one killer in the US.

I'm not talking about public schools, either. I think french fries shouldn't even be served in public schools; it should be outlawed. Bring your own if you want but it should be illegal to serve bad food to children when they're being placed under the care of the school system. I'm talking about a lard ass tax on people unless they've got a medical condition. You wanna eat McDonald's every day? Fine. You're gonna offset my health insurance premiums with every Big Mac you order.

 

[Enemy242]

that's a different issue though, this one is just ridiculous for the sake of being ridiculous. ketchup and mayo aren't going to kill students, and taking it away so they can't hide the taste of the shitty "cultured" food is dumb as hell. there are probably other condiments that are just as unhealthy but fit in with the culture, and that's where the crazyness arises.

overall i think it's a bit of a futile issue so i'm not even going to think about it anymore. i thought it was funny and ridiculous from the start, but it gets people completely off on tangents about unhealthy food (which actually is a real issue that's separate). food in schools is something i doubt people will be able to agree on for a longgg time.

 

[Deb H]

Nothing wrong with Heinz ketchup (or any ketchup in fact), us Brits love the stuff and I certainly grew up on it over various decades not to be disclosed here and it did me no harm

Oh wait, that may explain all my health problems (not weight, other stuff)

 

[Anvil]

Yay high-fructose corn syrup.

 

[Dead Winter]

Actually the high fructose corn syrup thing Anvil mentioned is really what's bad for you, not ketchup itself.

My silly and off-topic post aside, I really do think the media has made a mountain out of a molehill. They've essentially said the equivalent of bars being anti-tobacco industry zealots because they don't allow you to smoke inside anymore when that's not the case at all. They're not banning ketchup to be used or anything, just rationing its use in schools, which in my opinion is a good thing. If Jean-Pierre wants to put gobs of ketchup on his fries, he's gonna have to bring some extra from home. It's the same thing as candy and snack vending machines being taken out of schools and replaced with fruit and healthier choices.

 

[~Lynn~]

I say this oppression should inspire a new recording...

 

[Mr.Sister]

The year the ketchup died

 

[Liverslapper]

Dreaming Neon Ketchup

 

[Sentient 6]

the politics of ketchupstasy

 

[Shpongled]

No More Ketchup

 

[~Lynn~]

I, Ketchup