Residents protest ban of day-old doughnuts in Putnam senior centers

THE JOURNAL NEWS ^ | August 10, 2007 | Barbara Livingston Nackman

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Doughnuts, his deep-fried favorite, have been deep-sixed at Putnam's senior centers because officials say they are bad for the old folks' health and could be dirty.

Not surprisingly, some of those same seniors don't like the doughnut police telling them what to dunk in their coffee.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Food police is at it again. Have at it folks!

http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/NEWS04/708100404

[1rudeboy]

This is how revolutions begin. [chuckle]

[captjanaway]

Don’t these folks have anything else do to???? Next thing you know they’ll be putting the Wonderbread bakery outlets out of business!

[pepperdog]

Good grief! It’s a bunch of old folks, they aren’t going to be running the 10K or going to the rock climbing joint. Let them have their donuts and coffee and leave them alone.

[Logophile]

Good grief! It’s a bunch of old folks, they aren’t going to be running the 10K or going to the rock climbing joint. Let them have their donuts and coffee and leave them alone.

Moreover, if they are old they may have been doing something right to have lasted so long.

[Calvin Locke]

Geez, the next thing they’ll complain about, will be the donations of the bottom halves of muffins from The Muffin Top Shop.

[mylife]

This country has gone around the bend

[P-40]

If you are in a senior center and choose to smoke, drink, eat junk food, and watch TV all day....that is your own freaking business. There ought to be a law against treating adults like children just because they are up in years.

[Oztrich Boy]

"Hmmm... expired donuts"

[mylife]

no one likes “stumps”

[in hoc signo vinces]

Jeeeeez...if someone lives to be in their late 70s or 80s...give them the d8*n doughnuts...they earned the things.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Attica! Attica! Attica!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! My sentiments exactly!

[PeteB570]

Good Lord - how can they let those old folks eat three or four of those nasty, sugar filled round things? They, They might even be “DIRTY”.

That’s right folks send them all my way and I’ll be sure to test every one. :-)

In all seriousness, somebody makes it to be a senior citizen? Let them have a few simple “final” pleasures in life.

[HamiltonJay]

[misterrob]

I’d suggest that they call the cops but you know how it is with cops and doughnuts

[Iowannabe]

From the title, I thought they were protesting stale doughnuts, ha ha.

Bless their hearts. Let them eat cake (doughnuts).

[AppyPappy]

Landing at Omaha Beach was safer than that doughnut

[Vigilanteman]

Many moons ago, one of the part-time jobs I worked through college was as a cab driver in a small midwestern city. One of my regular customers was an 80-ish man in one of these "nanny nursing homes." Every Friday, he had me take him down to a local package store where he bought a couple of girlie magazines and 250 ml bottle of scotch. I always helped him smuggle it back to his room beneath the girlie magazines and got a good tip.

He told me that the staff didn't mind the girlie magazines, they even kidded him about them. But he wasn't allowed to have the scotch. I asked him why and he said it was a health regulation for that home. I told him he had more chance of dying from a heart attack by getting excited by some hot babe in the centerfold than he had of developing an alcohol problem from 250 ml of scotch a week. He just laughed.

[Biblebelter]

Our government is corrupt and incapable of enforcing our borders, enforcing our laws, and competently administering the court system. So our government passes a bunch a stupid laws, many in the form of rules and regs in bureaucratic arms of the government, and enforces these ridiculous laws because the are by and large using them to harass the most LAW ABIDING citizens who have lived their lives working hard and playing by the rules. Corrupt governments picks on good guys and leaves the bad guys to their destruction.