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Hands off my Double Down [Province just itching to ban 'glorious' treat]
QMI Agency via Sun Media ^ | 2010-10-25 | Brian Lilley

Posted on 10/25/2010 3:46:36 AM PDT by Clive

I grabbed a Double Down from KFC for lunch Thursday. It was glorious. Fried chicken, cheese and bacon. That's it.

I decided it was best to get the most manly sandwich on the market before Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty changed his mind again and went back to dreaming up ways to ban it.

In case you missed it, the Ontario government mused about banning the Double Down. Then, before the howls of laughter at that thought had even subsided, they changed their mind and decided to let adults eat whatever junk food they want to.

But why wouldn't the McGuinty government tell adults what they can and can't eat? They tell school children what they can eat and tell parents what they can send in school lunches.

My nephew was sent home with a package of unopened cookies once and a _nasty note informing his mother that cookies are not acceptable for lunch -- ever. Not even as a treat.

It's so bad in Ontario that during federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's summer tour, I heard senior Liberals complain about McGuinty's nanny state.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnews.canoe.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: doubledowns
PLease read the whole of the original linked article before commenting
1 posted on 10/25/2010 3:46:40 AM PDT by Clive
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2 posted on 10/25/2010 3:47:30 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
"Having banned junk food and water bottles, trans fats and speech that might offend someone, politicians are forever on the lookout for the next thing they can protect us from."

Thats it in a nutshell. There'll be nothing left pretty soon...A hollow, sissy existence, with the government telling us left and, er, left, what we can't have.

3 posted on 10/25/2010 3:56:56 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: Clive
In a separate case in Quebec, Premier Jean Charest is trying to use the courts to tell a private Catholic school that they must teach that all religions are equally true.

"And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12

That name is Jesus Christ.

4 posted on 10/25/2010 4:11:42 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Clive
Sci Fi as prophecy:

Lipidleggin
5 posted on 10/25/2010 4:40:41 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Clive
Same bunch that tried to ban sushi
6 posted on 10/25/2010 4:58:29 AM PDT by kanawa (Obama - "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.")
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To: Clive

I’ve lost 30 pounds. I eat two or three Double Downs a week.

heh, heh!


7 posted on 10/25/2010 10:30:49 AM PDT by Marie (Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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To: Marie

The “grilled” version seems to be Atkins-friendly.


8 posted on 10/25/2010 10:35:10 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Yup! That’s what I get. A double down and a medium iced tea with lemon.

Best. Diet. Food. Ever.


9 posted on 10/25/2010 10:48:42 AM PDT by Marie (Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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To: Marie

I’ll have to try it. Thanks!


10 posted on 10/25/2010 10:58:18 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Clive
My nephew was sent home with a package of unopened cookies once and a _nasty note informing his mother that cookies are not acceptable for lunch -- ever. Not even as a treat.

I would send a package of cookies with him, from then on, forever.

I'd even like to find a brand called "Middle Finger", and make sure the teacher had that label facing him or her during lunch.

I would never ever stop.

11 posted on 10/25/2010 11:00:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Clive

“...let adults eat whatever junk food...”

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WHO says its junk food? By what standard?

Now, heavy handed socialism, on the other hand IS not only junk government, but is murderous on the scale of tens of millions.

Swallow that with your tofu veggie shake, idiot Canuck Commies.


12 posted on 10/25/2010 11:02:36 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Lazamataz
I would send a package of cookies with him, from then on, forever.
I'd even like to find a brand called "Middle Finger", and make sure the teacher had that label facing him or her during lunch.
I would never ever stop.

You should see me in a Parent-Teacher conference sometime.

For some reason I always get scheduled last. It probably has something to do with the fact that I refused to send all of the school supplies with Lurker, Jr. on the first day of school.

I asked why he needed to have 3 boxes of Kleenex, 3 packages of anti-bacterial hand cleaner, 47 pens, 312 penciles, and a ream of notebook paper the very first day.

"Oh we distribute them to the kids who can't afford them."

"Can I get their names, addresses, and the letters from the State certifying them as Charities so I can write this off on my taxes?"

You should have seen the look.....priceless.

L

13 posted on 10/25/2010 11:09:04 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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I asked why he needed to have 3 boxes of Kleenex, 3 packages of anti-bacterial hand cleaner, 47 pens, 312 penciles, and a ream of notebook paper the very first day.

"Oh we distribute them to the kids who can't afford them."

Socialist bastards.

14 posted on 10/25/2010 11:44:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Clive
PLease read the whole of the original linked article before commenting.

I'll have you know that you're asking certain folks to violate a longstanding FR tradition - posting BEFORE reading the article !

Seeing as it's you though - we have nanny statism continuously growing here as well, although you clearly know that. We need either return our Congress to the original intent or establish a Heinleinian legislature: one house two-thirds to pass anything; a second house one-third to repeal anything.

15 posted on 10/25/2010 2:49:25 PM PDT by jimt
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To: Lurker

ROTFLMAO !

I needed that today !


16 posted on 10/25/2010 2:52:17 PM PDT by jimt
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