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France bans unlimited refills of soda drinks to battle bulging obesity levels
TheLocal.fr ^ | 26 January 2017 17:07 CET+01:00

Posted on 01/26/2017 11:15:30 PM PST by Olog-hai

From Friday restaurants in France will be breaking the law if they offer unlimited fizzy drinks to customers, as the government takes another step to fight the problem of obesity.

The new law was published in the government’s Journal Officiel website on Thursday and will come into effect on Friday.

It specifically states that it’s illegal to sell soft drinks at a fixed price for an unlimited amount of drink, and illegal to offer unlimited amounts for free.

The ban applies to all soft drinks or soda “fountains” in places open to the public, including fast food-chains and restaurants.

It also bans refills on any flavored or carbonated drinks, concentrates like fruit syrups, sports drinks, energy drinks, or essentially anything that comes with added sugar. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: fatshaming; fattyfrench; foodierights; foodnazis; foryourowngood; france; morons; nannystate; obesity; refill; socialism; socialists; soda
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To: Olog-hai

Good thing France has all of their other problems solved.


21 posted on 01/27/2017 3:34:41 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Olog-hai

Does this included iced tea or just sweetened tea? It says soft drinks (which in the US includes tea), carbonated drinks (which excludes tea), AND drinks with added sugar (which includes sweetened (not necessarily “Southern SWEEEEEEEEEET”) tea).


22 posted on 01/27/2017 4:01:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Olog-hai

Why just France? The whole EUSSR should do this an we could watch the thing entirely implode.


23 posted on 01/27/2017 4:02:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Timpanagos1
My point is that you don’t see many fat people in Paris.

Brigitte Bardot

Gerard Depardieu

Although Gerard has fled France.

24 posted on 01/27/2017 4:07:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: skr
Do they limit wine intake?

No, just as New York's ban on 44oz soft drinks at convenience stores does not apply to 40oz bottles of malt liquor and Obama's ban on flavored cigarettes did not apply to menthol.

25 posted on 01/27/2017 4:09:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Nothingburger
If they weren’t fat-shaming the lower orders, they’d have to find some other way to express their superiority.

Well said.

26 posted on 01/27/2017 4:23:29 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The feelings business is very profitable, and the thinkings business is not.")
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To: Olog-hai

Bloomberg became Mayor of France?


27 posted on 01/27/2017 4:30:47 AM PST by wright2bear (#NeverTrump is a mental disorder!)
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To: Vendome
Never really noticed fat people in France...

Fashion sense in France probably has a lot to do with it. I imagine that fat people in France don't wear spandex, tight tee shirts and revealing swimwear.

Appropriate dress can go a long way to improving the appearance of overweight people. I am astonished at the number of fat people in the U.S. who do not seem to understand this.

28 posted on 01/27/2017 4:37:35 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Olog-hai

France, you fixed all your other problems - like Muslim terrorism, lowering taxes and getting rid of the power of unions? If you did, then give citizens more freedoms...


29 posted on 01/27/2017 5:04:46 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Vendome

French people are much more anticipatory in fighting obesity than Americans. It if far easier to head off than cure.


30 posted on 01/27/2017 5:42:43 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just offer refills up to 10 liters for a given price. . .


31 posted on 01/27/2017 5:57:18 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t socialist fascism grand? Fools. Tyrants.


32 posted on 01/27/2017 6:53:38 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Olog-hai

Muslims raping and murdering people and they’re banning soda refills. Priorities..


33 posted on 01/27/2017 3:34:15 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Trillian

If only we lived in France.....


34 posted on 01/27/2017 3:43:39 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow, France never had an obesity problem.

When I went to college there, I remember other students coming to our apartment, looking at our food, and saying they were DYING of hunger, but wouldn’t eat because it was between mealtimes. One of the reasons they were so thin. Also the cigarette smoking. When I was there I kept feeling like I was rude, turning down offered Gaulloises all day long.


35 posted on 01/27/2017 3:46:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Olog-hai
Can't be.

People have been telling me forever that there are no fat people in france because their farmers are unionized or something.

36 posted on 01/27/2017 3:48:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Olog-hai

Ah yes the Nanny state in full bloom.

I live in Arkansas and just saw on the news something similar in taxing soda’s more. What a Crock.


37 posted on 01/27/2017 3:49:55 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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