Chocolate coated tax

It's only one doctor, and the proposal was not accepted. I don't think that it is the cocoa that's the problem, but the sugar in the final product. Your preparation of chocolate sounds scrummy.

apol;ogies for spelling errors - I have lost spell check and my fingers are a bit arthritic. I really can spell good - honest!

Everyone is taking me seriously today and I am only messing around. I said that I want to be a super model and people think that this lady who has almost passed sixty is serious? Ah well.

oh, fishie one, they are talking EXTRA tax on fast food not just the normal sales tax - yeah, we got that too

Fast food is already taxed here, as is all restaurant food Elic. I can say STOOPID!

*Slaps self upside the head!* It was a Doctor not a politician. I gotta stop watching Canadian news and stick to the Brit stations! LOL

See this is why I have a metal roof..............snow slides right off and we stand out from the air! LOL As for melting chocolate. I keep mine in the freezer! LOL

LOL. Never mind. I looked at Regina today. Property is quite expensive there. I couldn't see the appeal as most houses were covered in snow! However, I have made an application to be a skilled fig and date picker from the many exotic tropical plants that abound there. I am slightly worried that I didn't see anyone eating chocolate there. Is it taxed already? Probably melts too fast in the balmy all year round climate. Just like here really! LOL.

My boss will pay for the patch if I were to quit. I have to quit cold turkey if I'm to quit...the patch did not work and neither did getting hypnotized...twice!

Employers did those things! Over here they would be told where to go! Charging overweight people more for their health care would have discrimination implications here. Fast food and candy is taxed. The idea was to add an additional tax to force people to cut down on their chocolate consumption. But chocolate is just one food, there are so many others that can be over indulged so they'd all have t be taxed without any guarantees of success. I think that we need education about such things not legislation.

Agreed Bo. The doctor is simply courting publicity I think. However, we know what's good or bad for us. Everything in moderation is my view. Are you the Government now, or did I misunderstand my Dahr'lin Sis's comment?

I think you did misunderstand her. I am not the government, no freakin way!

A prsosn metabolism has the major factor in weight gain. I eat chocolate and baked treats a LOT and don't gain weight. But taxing things that aren't already, is stupid I feel. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Cows farts are useful. Harness it, turn it into methane and then burn it. It can and is done in some places using animal dung! Yes, let's levy a politician tax. Based on their rhetoric and actions. Good ones pay less tax, bad ones more. Treasury Ministers always pay the highest amount. LOL.

Someone in the United States wanted to tax cows as methane producers, claiming they were polluting the air with all their farts. I think we should do that to some people. However the farm lobby soon squashed the cow fart tax. (I am not kidding and it is not April 1st yet.

yes, lets start with ministers....

Neither do I and neither did the British Medical Association!

Erm think I would rather eat them without chocolate! I have never tried a deep fried mars bar or a deep fried cola cube BUT I do enjoy the occasional deep fried pizza!

How about chocolate dipped broccoli and carrots Mummymo? Best of both worlds. Beats the deep fried mars bar or, as LnP told me the other day, the deep fried frozen coke cube! LOL. The mind boggles. I'll keep upwind though if you don't mind! XXXX

Me as PM. What a thought. What party would I be I wonder? Collapse of stout probably! LOL.

It's OK Rosie. It's not going to happen now. Breathe deeply - what's that funny smell. Ooooh Rosie. Naughty Brownies!!

If you go past our local Maccas at about 4pm you will see that it is full of children just out from school. Presumably they had breakfast, lunch (probably packed) and will have tea/supper/dinner when they get home. Eating substantially between meals seems to have become a national pastime along with sunday shopping. Fast food places deliberately make themselves attractive to children. Once these habits get into the population then we inevitably see an increase in obesity etc. Chocolate has its part to play no doubt, but I don't believe that it is the culprit. We need to change our attitudes to food not tax certain foodstuffs out of existence. I found a bar of Green & Blacks dark chocolate in my sponge bag a while ago. Funny where such things end up!

Yes, you're right, changing peoples' attitudes towards food and eating healthily is the only way. Sadly this is difficult to do, especially in cultures like ours where fast-food a la McD's is so engrained. We really need to include it in children's education from an early age. Part of that education must be provided by the parent, and schools should teach healthy eating too, as well as leading by example. I remember when I was at secondary school the food was terrible. I only ever remember eating greasy chicken legs (shortly afterwards I turned vegetarian!), and cheese and tomato pizzas dripping with oil. I honestly don't remember eating anything else for the entire time I went to that school. Hmm, how did the Green and Blacks get in your sponge bag I wonder. Was someone hiding it from you, or were you hiding it from someone else? lol!

Yep. I can go with that.

Here in England, children do have Physical Education in most schools. I think it's recommended that they provide at least 2 hours a week but the thing is, if the schools are providing that and then the parents are not encouraging exercise and filling their kids with junk, it's not going to make a lot of difference. My kids, for example, are fit and healthy because they eat well and get plenty of exercise away from school but they have friends who are larger than they ought to be.

I said earlier here to someone that here if you go past the city centre fast food places they are full of children in the afternoon eating meals between meals! I do agree though. Children need to be out more. My daughter used to walk two miles to school and two miles home usually. But there were still many that got picked up and driven each way. These days if we can't park outside the store we feel deprived. Crazy world we've created.

Okay "Becky passes a few lettuce leaves and a few carrot sticks to P1key" Hmmm..I wonder if they would taste good with chocolate coating?

I think that his concern is morbid obesity and the rise in Type 2 Diabetes Becky. Even so, surly it is down to people to decide for themselves what they will eat or drink. Pass a lettuce leaf please! LOL.

Let's dip them and see Becky. LOL.

The Store that is about 350 foot from my house has candy bars that cost .89 cents before tax and it is silly to be so high since no one buys them much because of it. Makes you want to shout..Off with their heads..lol

Candy bars are taxed but not chocolate etc for baking. Anything that is prepared alread foodwise is taxed like candy bars cookies etc. But not the stuff to make them yourself. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Chocolate is aleady taxed here. But this wouldn't make any difference I think. Just more daftness.

I didn't make myself very clear Heavens. I meant a tax in addition to the one that we pay on such stuff already. He singled out chocolate but to my mind it could be on anything. If we do anything to excess it can be harmful. Does that mean that the answer is to make that activity unaffordable. Isn't it better simply to educate us better.

I shall march with you Cyn. Although I am reminded of the old adage "Hell hath no fury like woman whose chocolate has been taxed"!!

I truly do not understand how that stuff passes for food. YUK! Education has to be the way to do it. Once I have finished this chocolate bar I'll enroll on a course! LOL.

Better have an ambulance on standby whilst you're about it.

What, Kentucky Fried Chicken? I love the stuff but I admit I get extra napkins and sop up the grease before I eat it. I bring antacids too...

Don't speak too soon or someone will try to introduce it! LOL.

hahaha who knows