No Fry Zone: NYC Health Dept. Bans Fried Food at Work Meals
- Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:56am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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No French fries. Or freedom fries for that matter.
The New York City Health Department has issued new guidelines banning fried foods from its work-sponsored meals, telling employees to cut bagels and muffins in half, and saying that if cakes are served for a celebration, they can’t be coupled with cookies. According to the Health Department, it’s about being consistent.
The Daily News explains:
Employees also got a bright-colored brochure stipulating what can and can’t be served at meetings and parties.
Tap water is a menu must when food or drinks are served. Other beverages must be less than 25 calories per 8 ounces.
“Cut muffins and bagels into halves or quarters, or order mini sizes. Offer thinly-sliced, whole-grain bread,” the brochure states.
Deep-fried foods are an absolute no-no and “cannot be served.”
For celebrations, cake and air-popped popcorn – “popped at the party and served in brown paper lunch bags” – are allowed.
But when a “celebration cake” is served, cookies can’t be offered.
“These standards are mandatory for meetings and events sponsored by the Health Department,” the brochure states.
“The Health Department is leading by example by updating its guidelines for food and beverages served at agency meetings and events,” spokeswoman Erin Brady told the News.
Still, others see it as encroachment, especially considering the guidelines go beyond food. Workers were also told to refrain from wearing perfumes or colognes with “noticeable odors,” told not to eavesdrop, and advised to be careful not to post anything in their cubicles that others might consider offensive.
One worker summed up the guidelines by simply saying, “This seems like micromanaging.”
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Comments (265)
jeff.cooper
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:25amOMG. No more Fat Tuesday Paczkis being passed around before Lent? Sacrilege!
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:25amChicken fried steak with sausage gravy mmmmmmmmmmmm
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:24amA small donation to the 2012 Obama Campaign will get you a waiver from this policy.
Report Post »NC
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:22amIf you don’t like these guidelines for health department parties, and the free food you are eating at the taxpayers expense, go work for another state/city/county department!
Placing these restrictions on a private company is another topic.
NC (thinks public employees should be paid minimum wage unless they are management level. Working for the state should be a “i couldn’t get a job anywhere else, so here I am, instead of a WooHoo, I got a state job)
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:19amOMG! I would go to jail before someone told me that i could not eat FIVE GUYS BUGERS and Fries. it is sad to think that our government has nothing better to do that to police its own citizens. Our country in now and has always been under socialist rule but A holes that think they know what is good for them and ourselves
Report Post »Veritas
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:15amSmells like communism to me!
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:21amThat‘s because it’s walking like a duck.Looks ducky too.
Report Post »betsp
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:12amWhy is it that liberals feel compelled to stick their noses in our business at every level? Shut up, liberals! Honestly, they make my head hurt. I think I’ll go eat a Twinkie.
Report Post »CrazyCraig
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:10amThat is why I do not and will never live in NYC!!! What about at union parties?? Oh, right, they have already amended their contracts to be excluded from this idiotic intrusion into the freedoms of American citizens.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:10amI think it would be cool if a crowd of people got a big greasy KFC, McDonalds, or Carl’s Jr. lunch and ate it right out in front of the Health Department while wearing a “Kiss my A$$” t-shirt.
Report Post »jackeric61
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:08amIf it’s good enough for the workers of the dept it will be good enough for us serfs. Wonder if the same guidelines are in place for the dept. heads?????
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:25amIt’s in place for everybody there, this entire discussion is about *department sponsored* events, meaning the money and food is coming from the department. This has nothing to do with people bringing in bag lunches with whatever they want on their own dime.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:45amsince when does a dept spend taxpayer money on “sponsored” events.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:54pm@Stoic
Probably since they were formed? I’ve never worked in a place that *didn’t* sponsor lunches/events from time to time. Have you?
Report Post »An AmericanMom
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:08amI hope the American voters wake up and come out and take these clowns out of office! Obama, Harry, Nancy and company are a nightmare for this great land!
Outstanding video….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbBdI3Lmeo
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:08amI’m OK with the Health Dept. wanting to give the appearance of ‘health’.
Of course I am also quite OK with Defunding the overbearing Spanish-inquisition-of-a-socially-retentive-tax-wasting-monstrosity also. This function It is not in the guidelines of our government’s duties — IN ANY WAY. Just because the government goes around creating “agencies” to control every aspect of our lives, doesnt make it OK, since its not part of the 3 branches of government.
REGULATORY AGENCIES — are the government’s way of trying to indirectly control every aspect of your life, without having to defend its actions against the U.S. Constitution. Don’t you guys know that?
You want your freedom back? Get your representitives to create and back legislation for DEFUNDING MOST GOVT AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS. I certainly give you my word that we will not suddenly wind up in the Dark Ages, like the goverenment wishes for you to believe. On the contrary, things will actually start moving forward again — better and more cost-effective than ever.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:20amYou are SO right! With REGULATORY AGENCIES you can just bypass the other two branches of government as if they weren’t there.
Report Post »code green
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:18pmYou might as well add the IRS and go for the “Fair Tax”
Report Post »CygnusX
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:47pmThey need to stop using the name Agency and start calling them Ministries.
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07amLittle by little they take away your freedom. The unfounded secondhand smoke nazis were first, then trans-fat, then sugary drinks, then calories on menus, I’m forgetting some but you get the point. Those who know what is best for you are empowered.
Report Post »VApatriot2
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:36pmWork place today, gramma’s kitchen tomorrow, one itty bitty step at a time. Out of my cold, dead, lockjawed mouth!
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07amI remember Ol Nikita banging his shoe on the UN table and shouting” We’ll take you over w/o firing a shot”
Report Post »Ol ‘Nikita knew that of which he spoke,He knew ameriKa had many of his fellow travelers entrenched in the bureaucracy and political class on the East Coast and the Left Coast.
See!! ol Nikita‘s maw was a communist Gypsy fortune teller and had passed on some of her fortune telling genes to Ol’ Nikita.
Hey Nikita, don’t come in from the cold
In your big corner of the US world
You could roam around the globe
And never find a a warmer corner than NY for your soul
77
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07amWonderful! All this after only 2 years of the Obama administration. Imagine how far we will have traveled by the end of his 8th year!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:09pmHe isn’t getting a fith year, if he does we’re finished.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07amit’s all about communal living in the age of obama.
Report Post »godfather
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:34pmThis has nothing to do with Obama. It’s a state agency of New York that is deciding to do this.
Report Post »truthncharity
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07amBig Brother and his anemic sister, Nanny State, need to go on a diet of highly concentrated Constitution and Freedom fats to balance out their mental disorder.
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:06amMicro-management = absence of freedom. How long before we are like zoo animals…with pacing inside our cages being our only freedom?
Report Post »POIPNE
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:38pmJust make sure you eat whatever they dump in the trough BEFORE you start pacing.
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:05amCan you flush?
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:05amBetter idea, let’s ban all food in meetings for government workers…..they don’t deserve to eat on our dime!
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:47pmExactly. How many of these meals are we paying for? Let them bring their own food (and it should be whatever they WANT to eat).
Report Post »ithinktoomuch
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 2:49pmEven I, a San Francisco Pelosi-loving Democrat, can warm up to that idea. It’s exactly those kinds of nickel-and-dime expenditures like birthday cakes and morning bagels that the government doesn’t cut, while leaving the kids to suffer in crowded old leaky portable classrooms. The one thing I CAN support, unreservedly? The no-scent rule. I have a friend who has severe sneezing attacks whenever he‘s trapped in an elevator with a person who doesn’t know how to “spray, delay, then walk away”, and another who gets a vicious headache every time he has to go into his office because of one coworker’s cologne. PEOPLE! If you can’t leave off your stinkum for the workday, at least stop marinating in it. It hurts people.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:02amWelcome to big government, people. How much more of your life do you want the government to control? Healthcare maybe? Ooops, too late.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:25pmCan skinny people get a whole muffin? are they exempt from the rules? I bet GE gets a whole muffin.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:57pmFunny, Kate.
Every time I see your name, I’m reminded of Margeret “Dirty Kate” Corbin. Now, before you start getting the wrong idea, she is NOT a porn star. :-) She is known for filling in for her husband during the Civil War after he was killed. She was very heroic. If you’re of Irish ancestry, you may appreciate this even more.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:17pmIrish, Scots and German. I was actually a little flattered when you linked me to Dirty Kate. Thank you:)
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:23pmThat’s how it was intended. You’re welcome. I hope all is well in the great state of Arizona.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:41pmtake it off-line, love birds
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:28pmTexasProgressive, nice to see you back. Mom and dad must have grounded you from your computer for a while. I eagerly look forward to challenging you on your nonsensical remarks.
Report Post »nacilbuper
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:02amUnnd you will learn to love it!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:01am….and they wonder why people are bailing out of New York.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:24amProgressives only live in this moment…never look ahead. Now all the money they are saving on obesity will be only half what is needed on mental health for the employees of the regime.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:00amThese last 2 years remind me of the Dallas episode where it was all a dream. Seriously, someone please wake me up. This stuff cannot really be happening….
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:03amIt is a dream, for progressives, and it’s coming true.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:28am2012 … end our long national nightmare! TEA!
Report Post »ObamaWatcher
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:31pm“Well, Dr. Franklin, what have you done for us?”
“My dear lady, we have given you a republic, if you can keep it.
Benjamin Franklin.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:55pmyes, texas commense sense, we are hear to take over…very scary…BOO!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:20pmTexasProgressive
“Here”, you dipstick. If you are going to take jabs at people at least learn to spell.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:39pmKatie – you saw that as a jab from me to him, huh? Not me reacting to what he said? Anyway, thanks for the correction, and next time, lets not use such harsh language, gosh
Report Post »Tammy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:53pm@Untameable-kate
I am ROFLOL…every one around me is wondering what I find so funny – I LOVE YOUR POST!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:32pmTexasProgressive, I take you like having someone tell you what to do in your everyday life? Right down to what you eat. I take offense to it as I am intelligent enough to decide for myself. If you’re looking for big government to take care of you, instead of mom and dad, you’re living in the wrong state. There’s a reason why the Texas legislature meets only once every two years. That is, if you really even do live in Texas. I have my doubts.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:34pmTexasProgressive, I took it as a jab, too. A sarcastic jab.
Report Post »godfather
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:38pmWhy is it hard to believe that a state agency would decide to spend its money on healthier food? All this does is require that food served at functions sponsored by the New York Health Dept. be healthier. The state has decided that is how it wants to spend its money, and it does not force anyone to do anything. If you still want to eat greasy food, this does not stop you from doing so. Furthermore, this the state of New York’s decision, aren‘t conservative the ones who always go around talking about state’s rights?
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 6:52pmgodfather, they also talk about portion sizes. It’s too much government for me. Yes, state’s rights are great, amendment 10 is very important, but personal rights and freedoms are more important to most conservatives.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:57amOdds are ACORN workers are exempt.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:11amlol! Exactly what I was gonna post!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:13amAnti_spock
Report Post »I agree and not only that it probably was also because the NYC “health department” is afraid that it might cause some SEIU thugs to have to work extra hard to fry foods or to make donuts when they are also having cake, etc.
redneck
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:16amIt’s my unpaid lunch time so get out of my way you communist!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:17amI’ll Bring my own FRIED CHICKEN, BISCUITS and SAWMILL GRAVY, and FRIED APPLE PIES. YUMMMMMMM
Report Post »BIGDAN63
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:18amsomeone needs to tell the New York Health Dept. where to shove their mandates. have you seen how fat the people working for the dpt are. makes Rosie O’Donald look slim
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:21amWell, employees of the department are under no obligation to continue employment if they disagree with the policy vehemently. Just being frank about it. And honestly, droves of people quitting useless bureaucratic government jobs is a win for *everybody*, especially the tax payer.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:23amAlso note, it’s only banning these things for *work sponsored* meals. Meaning, meals the department pays for directly.
“Workers were also told to refrain from wearing perfumes or colognes with “noticeable odors,” told not to eavesdrop, and advised to be careful not to post anything in their cubicles that others might consider offensive.”
These things are required in most every other office I’ve ever worked in, in the private sector. It’s simple courtesy.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:41amPolice state communism my friends, but NY’ers will buy into it, mostly the elitists there! Where are all the regluar NY’ers speaking out? LOL, oh that’s right they went for the hoax and chains the Obumbler promised them,…i wonder how that unicorn milk and fairy dust tastes now, hmmmm?
Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:44amGhost, good morning. I mostly agree that if it is work sponsored meals then they have a right to put forth guidelines. I don’t think it falls along the same lines as the perfumes and cologne mandates, since people can have allergic reactions to people who wear too much fragrance, and I sure wouldn‘t want to look at some perverts’ dirty pictures every time I walked past his/her cubicle. That said, I still think telling an adult that they are only allowed to have half a muffin goes a little too far.
Report Post »1chancey1
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:47amToday it’s work sponsored food and tomorrow it’s …..
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:53amOf course “some”, will be exempt. I don’t like this anymore than most of you; You know it’s coming….BUT: GHOSTOFJEFFERSON is right; and there shouldn’t be any “work sponsored meals”. Using tax dollars to buy meals???? This mentality is why we are 14 trillion in debt!
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:10pmThe trouble I have with those who say since they are paying that they can establish guidelines is that this demonstrates people’s ideology and thought patterns. So do you not think that their ideas and desire to control us will not creep into and find ways into other public policy areas???? Of course they will. This is their mentality on full display and it is what they believe to be right and since their conscience will approve of them seeking to impose this on others they will see nothing wrong with seeking ways in which to do such things in subtle ways to effect public policies that govern all.
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:22pmIs the Health Dept becoming the nanny state ?
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SlimnRanger
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:24pmI am so thankfull i do not live in NYC, i love my fried foods
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:47pmThis can’t Constitutional I would love to see companies take down these gestapo in N.Y. where their authority ends.
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:48pmEver seen how fat the SEIU protesters are?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:49pmJust wait until they come out with the State sponsored thermostats.
Report Post »Has Europe even gone this far, to tell it’s citizens what to eat or not, or how to live?
hickoryrat
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:06pmCome out of her,my people,that ye be not partakers of her sins,and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:15pmWell NYC has already started on the Nanny Dept banning what they deem unheathy. If they are taking it further in thier own dept then its only time when the rest of the city will suffer further bans on fried foods and other unheathly food items. Which is why for the last 3 years I put a ban on myself from ever spending my allmighty dollar in NYC. Perhaps we can use the liberal tactics to our advantage and make NYC suffer the consequences.
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:38pmHow about taking half of the money for this program and give those workers a raise, and serve no food, everybody brings a lunch … There I fixed it.
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:50pmDon’t these idiots have anything better to do ?
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:53pmThis is about controlling healthcare costs. Companies (incl mine) are stopping smoking on campuses, serving healthier food, etc in an attempt to keep costs under control.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:13pm“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” — from George Orwell’s “1984”
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:18pm@TexasProgessive, you’re right its about control, but not controlling healthcare costs if that were true allow people medical savings accounts, and let insurers compete across state lines, how about not allowing frivolous malpractices lawsuits (Sure the left is great to argue the number of malpractice cases only result in %3 premium overhead BUT thats NOT counting redundant amounts of Malpractice insurance and Bonds that Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals, Clinics, BioMed Equipment, Pharmaceutical companies, Pharmacists, Pharmacies, Manufacturing companies, Ambulance Corps, EMTS, etc. all have to carry) Worrying about what food I choose to eat, small potatoes and quite frankly none of their business.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:32pm@ Patriot308
VERY good point, when we had company parties in my old private sector job, we all pitched in $5 or so. Very rarely did the company buy us lunch.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:33pmI love the reasoning ability of TEXASPROGRESSIVE….Know why? Because it is exactly how liberals like to think and look at things. Through the lens of collectivism. There is always a greater cause, a greater good that by necessity requires the individual to relinquish some individual choices or freedoms. But have no fear it is for the greater good (said with an emphatic accent in the vain of a french elitist). What an exposition of the left and their ideology TEXASPROGRESSIVE thanks for the show and tell.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:33pmNSDQ – private companies and state governments are not telling you what to eat or smoke just to control you. They have no say in tort reform or cross state compete legilsation (both federal issues). So they are doing what they can…trying to alter my behavior in order to control health care costs…
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:37pmWatch the other hand – settle down, its the weed making you paranoid. I did not speculate on the greater good at all…this is simply about cents. I do believe in tort reform and opening up cross state selling…they alone won’t solve the problem, but lets give them a shot.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:40pmOh TEXASPROGRESSIVE………..Please keep going !! I am thoroughly enjoying the expose’. There is always a good reason isn’t there? I mean who doesn’t want to lower health care costs after all. That‘s what it really is all about isn’t it? Of course those politicians have nothing but my best interest at heart. After all they know what’s best for me and my health. Never mind that some people could eat junk their whole life and never get fat or have high cholesterol or die from a heart attack because they are genetically not predisposed to those types of problems (I am a physician for full disclosure there my little liberal friend). I love it collectivism at it’s finest….Please do go on TEXAS…please.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:48pmWatch – Companies don’t care about the well being of employees for altruistic reasons, they care because if they self insure (meaning, the company itself is the insurer) there is a direct return on investment. Open up a gym at the office, healthcare costs go down. If companies are not self insured, the insurance company will offer them a reduction in rate if they open a gym, an indirect return on investment.
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:49pmWell sure and left to that way of thinking where does it stop, we all eat too much sodium lets ban salt, sugar is bad also so thats got to go, OH and dont forget red-meat that stuff is awful for you, pork also it so fatty, Did you know areas where high amounts of pork products are consumed have nearly twice the national average of cancer rates. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-31-cancer_N.htm), Alcohol also, Oh my so many deaths related to alcohol reinstate prohibition. And deodorants have been linked to breast cancer http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/antiperspirant.asp so we will just have to stink it up … IT WILL NEVER STOP WITH FRIED CHICKEN
Report Post »Tammy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:51pm@TexasProgressive
My employer has started limiting our food choices and nudging us to make “better” food choices as well. I resent it and have resorted to bringing my own lunch, complete with WHATEVER I DARN WELL PLEASE TO EAT!
I bring in whole milk, butter, and my own supply of brown sugar. I salt my food when I want to and generally decide for myself what I’m going to eat. In fact our on-site cafe has seen a drop in business since they’ve started this effort and I believe it will continue until they start serving real food again!
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:10pm@ TEXASPROGRESSIVE…………..thank you my friend again for the show and tell so if I understand you right it is about cost benefits not altruism of the people? That is what you stated correct?
So I am pretty safe to assume that when (not if) the federal government takes over health care decisions will be made on the same basis, correct? So I can expect to be told what to do and eat and so forth or be penalized in one way or another correct? I mean given your reasoning of course. So when I need a very costly cancer treatment according to you the government wouldn’t be looking at it from an altruistic viewpoint but more from a cost benefit perspective, right? According to what you posted I mean. WOW, I guess we have more in common than I realized because you just stated my argument for me about how the government bureaucrats work. Thanks again please make so more comments they are very enlightening.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:14pmNOBODY is gonna tell me that I can’t eat something. Especially not the government!
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:17pmNANNY STATE – I always cut my bagels in half, its the only way to slather them with butter ‘&’ cream cheese. Not to mention the best way to eat a muffin is to rip the top off of it and eat eat that first. Cake or Cookies…. I choose BOTH !!! stay the heck out of my diet.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:20pmI think each person should bring 2 pizzas, 2 dozen cookies and lots of milk to the next Tea Party event in NYC & DC. It should be a a big ole’ party. Don’t forget the soda and milk.
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:23pmWhat next? Telling the military they have to go vegetarian because it is healthier?
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:29pmOZCHAMBERS and GODSAMERICA…. I can’t wait for the exemption list. I can just imagine how those lard-butt union members are reacting to this…. they just might lose a pound or two… OMG!!!!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:29pmWelcome to Obama world.
Report Post »westy98530
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:10pmWhat’s the big deal? Read the article. It’s an INTERNAL policy for workers at the health dept. Probably to eliminate the irony of the health department serving unhealthy food to its workers. Don’t like it, then don’t work for the health dept. How is it any of our concern?
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:37pmI have no problem with that. most New Yorkers are idiots who need the govt to control every aspect of their lives anyway. Way to go NY! Home of Charlie rangel, bloomberg, and a host of other progressive scumbags.
Par for the course baby! CA is next.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:42pm@ WESTY….since when is eating fried foods occasionally been proven to be unhealthy? If you eat them too often then OK maybe but not in moderation same with sweets or alcohol or many other things. So why is it a “health” department issue unless they are serving food everyday for people? It is an ideology that is seeking to do you good by controlling your autonomy as an individual period bottom line. They want to set an agenda so as to influence other areas of not so internal agendas. Just wait my frined
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:44pm@BANJARMON
Report Post »That’s fine – now spend your own money on the heart surgery your going to need in a few years. You’re all about personal responsibility right?
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:25pmTisk tisk tisk, you are all guilty of thought crimes! You work for the govt they can tell you what to eat and when and when that takes hold, spreads through the country then it will spread out to the private sector. Dont you see you are too stupid to know whats best for you, the powers that be know better! Of course they will continue on eating what they want fattening themselves drinking alcohol and smoking doing all they tell you cannot do but thats how it works in our new 1984 world.
Report Post »westy98530
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:54pm@watchtheotherhand
Report Post »I think you misread the article. It’s a health department issue because it is what a department is doing within their own office. No different than a business saying the same thing for their employees. It has no applicability to anyone else in the world. So, I say again, who cares.
right-wing-waco
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:12pm“One worker summed up the guidelines by simply saying, “This seems like micromanaging.””
No, it is the Gestapo giving orders. I would bring in fried chicken and lots of Hohos daily and dare them to do something to me.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:41pmOK now I am REALLY glad I don’t have a GOVERNMENT JOB.. next they will be demanding the employees write down everything they ate and drank while on their own time..LOL.. MOST people don‘t eat cake AND cookies however SOME don’t eat one or the other .. therefore since a cookie or two is MUCH smaller in portion and they are eliminated so people will eat more CAKE..
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:50pm@ WESTY………..I read the article perfectly. I don’t think you read my comment correctly. Try again and see if you understand my point. It isn’t a “health” department issue to stay consistent because eating those foods occasionally is NOT unhealthy. If you ate it everyday or quite frequently then maybe, but they are NOT serving food that frequently so it is a non-issue to provide these guidelines. It is PC driven and reflects a mentality of those in positions of authority that CAN ultimately influence policies that effect the rest of us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:56pmIsn’t Socialism, great. Betcha ‘Soul food’, will get a waiver. Time to revolt against these ‘communists’ and throw them a ‘bone’.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:05pmWESTY… I think you should read the entire article. This goes way beyond the health department..
“The gerbil-loving food choices are in step with Health Commissioner Thomas Farley’s push to reduce New Yorkers salt, sugar and alcohol consumption.”
Cracking down internally before forcing policies like these on the general public is nothing new. I’m just surprised they thought of it before issuing citations.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07pmdaaahhh TEXASPROGRESSIVE won’t play any more daaahhh !!!!!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 7:38amWATCHTHEOTHERHAND……….you say
“So do you not think that their ideas and desire to control us will not creep into and find ways into other public policy areas???? Of course they will. This is their mentality on full display”………..
TEXASPROGRESSIVE………says
“This is about controlling healthcare costs”.
The DECENDENT says…….
This a classic example of freedom vs tyranny. Absolutely classic.
Of course, you are right, and PROGRESSIVE is wrong. Once again, a PROGRESSIVE can’t see the woods, for the trees are in the way.
The deal that you and I can see is that it simply doesn’t stop with what you can eat. Poor understanding, multicultural TX-PROGRESSIVE. He/she is too dumb to get it.
Report Post »We created FOOD STAMPS.
They sold them for cigarettes, so…..
Their kids didn’t eat properly, so……
We created WIC for nutritional kids-only food items………but
SInce they still didn’t feed them properly, we had to……
Feed their kids breakfast and lunch in school…… as well as……
Send them to pre-K for day-care,……which meant we had to….
Build on to schools to make room for them, which meant we had to….
Hire more teachers, pay their wages, pay their healthcare, pension, and pay them for unused sick days when they retire. Oh…did I say that….
Those kids do not perform better than they did before the above BILLIONS were spent, and that…
They continue to committ crimes, join gangs, fight in school, have illegitimate babies, which grow up to need……..see above
decendentof56
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 7:45amTx-Progressive says……..
So they are doing what they can…trying to alter my behavior in order to control health care costs…
“trying to alter my behavior”?
Report Post »Are you serious? Think, McFly!…….Think!
westy98530
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:36am@anti-spock, watchtheotherhand
Report Post »I understand your points perfectly, but sorry, I just don’t buy it. This move stinks of government employee political correctness, not government encroachment on the rights of the population. It’s a very different smell. I don’t know if any of you work in government, but this kind of B.S. happens ALL the time – stupid employee regulations that are all about “sending the right image.” That’s exactly what this looks like.
the frog
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:32pmwill they hold you hand as you go to the rest room
Report Post »ithinktoomuch
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 2:39pmACORN is out of business and has been for a while. Get informed!
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