Large Sodas a no-no in New York passes?

United States
September 15, 2012 8:09pm CST
A while back I heard the mayor of New York was going to ban extra large sodas at all restaurants but I never thought this law would pass. But unless someone appeals , the law will go in effect in March. All I can say is thank G-d I don't live in New York. Like I ranted before there are so many ways to get around this.My favorite? Just buy the food in NY and the drink in NJ.But now that I know 7-Eleven is exempted, it is so simple. Bring in your Slurpee/ Big Gulp into the restaurant ! I don't think this will help with the Food Nazis quest to force people to eat healthy.All this will do is pi$$ off many people. Your thoughts.
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@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
16 Sep 12
Hey... It is always bad idea to force someone to do something... I thought it was here in India only. I'm sure though, that American people will revolt... The people of NY will not accept anything blindly... Here in India, its all about forcing people to do things.. People resist for some time, only some of 'em and then they give up... No one, unfortunately, ever recognizes it.. It's become hell to be here...
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@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
17 Sep 12
Thats what is so amazing about America & Americans... Over the years, I've found that I love America and American preference to Freedom, personal Freedom... I have the love for that freedom... That is why, I feel so suffocated and depressed here... Right now, I'm as depressed as anyone could be! Trust me Behen, I was born Indian; but I'll die as an American & on American soil... There's bad news Sarah... My family's decided I should marry the girl they've found for me... The date of this unpleasent wedding has been decided to be Nov 30... :-(. I've two months to go for it... I'd prefer to die than to marry that girl...
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• United States
19 Sep 12
What happens if you say no? What happens if you just don't show up to the wedding ceremony? You live how far away? Isn't there a way to just be disowned by these two? Or will they try to kill you. If you fear for your life, go to the American Embassy! See if you can get a Visa to get here.
• United States
16 Sep 12
You are taught in India to obey your elders and your family comes first. Here We are taught rules are made to be broken. You get to choose what you put first.Some put their family other themselves. Don't worry, the restaurants may just have free refills or people will just buy their big sodas somewhere else and bring them with them. Me? I want the neighboring states to offer big sodas Just across from the borders. I also wrote two fast food restaurants with the idea of selling a small soda a third smaller so people can buy three and get the same amount they are used to. We are Americans , we will find a way to get what we want!
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Sep 12
hi sarahruthbeth I hope it does pass as we Americans seemed to want to kill ourselves overdoing every type of food or drink. oversized this or that,Its time someone slowed some of that crap ' down a bit.WE get the extra large st uff and we become extra large with the resulting heart attacks, strokes, type two diabetes its time some things are toned down t hen maybe people will realize too nmuch of a good thing is no longer good.Its not food police its common sense.thats my thoughts.here in C alifornia you bring in a drink from out side the waitresses have a hissyfit.
• United States
16 Sep 12
Then the b!tch better get used to having a hissyfit. People will be sneaking sodas in. Prohibitions seems to have the opposite effect. The Food Nazis are trying to tell us what we can and can not have and it will not work.What they see as crab I and others see as food we choose to eat. It is far better to die being well fede than have a long life without choice. The Food Nazis are trying to take away our choice . Life without choice is slavery, period.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
In the article I read , the mayor said people could just buy two or three sodas if they want to so I can see this backfiring. Either there will be free refills Or.. people will just buy 3 or 4 small sodas and use more plastics. And if I were a neighboring state I would double up on the large soda so Ny loss is my gain!
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@AmbiePam (84664)
• United States
17 Sep 12
Self-control is the problem, not the sizes of our plates and cups. I think more than what we eat, the lack of exercise contributes to obesity more than anything. But I don't like my government telling me what containers are appropriate to hold my beverages. I'm very tired of the government butting in where they are not wanted nor needed.
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@AmbiePam (84664)
• United States
18 Sep 12
I really wish I drank. Even if my denonmination did drink I still couldn't because of my medication. Hmmm, I wonder what kind of effect it would have on me if I took it with medication. Should I find out? I should, and if anything bad happens I'll tell everyone sarahruthbeth told me to do it!
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@AmbiePam (84664)
• United States
19 Sep 12
Too late. I'm taking this idea and running with it. I'm off to a bar!!!!
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• United States
18 Sep 12
Don't worry, whenever the Food Nazis or the Big Brother types try to force us to do something we don't want to do , it does backfire. Remember studying Prohibition? The one thing us Americans all know how to do is break rules!
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• United States
17 Sep 12
personally, i don't like the government telling me how to live. we're SUPPOSED to be FREE nation. how is it free if i'm constantly told what i can and cannot have. ordinarily, i don't buy supersize sodas, just for the fact i never finish them. i hate to waste my money like that. but if i wanted to make that decision to have a supersize, then that is MY right! the constitution gives me that right. i think people, in general, know what they can handle and what they can't handle. IT'S NOT UP TO THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT HAVE! i work 7 days a week so they can vacation wherever they want to! don't tell me i can't have supersize soda to get through my day, let alone my week. btw, i'm 5'11" and only 20 lbs heavier than what i need to be. but that's attributed to eating junk food before going to bed. my job keeps me going all day long to where i burn more calories than what i usually bring in. i've gone from drinking a 12 pack of soda in a day to making it last all month. so the government......kiss that!
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• United States
17 Sep 12
The Food Nazis will Never win!
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
16 Sep 12
Well, when they say restaurants they really mean fast food places. But that is not going to stop someone from drinking as much as they want. Even if you can only buy a 16 oz soda, you can get more after that. Look, the average person mainly drinks one drink when they eat at lets say McDonald's. but the one person that wants more will just get more. This law is not stopping anyone. And besides, if you cannot get what you want at one place, you will either stop going or find somewhere else to go. The mayor is a moron. I also cannot believe that this law passed. I am in shock. But I don't care. Because if I want a large soda, I will just go buy a 2 liter bottle and take it home.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
Take it home? Some will just bring it to the restaurant and ask for ice! In fact that would be the best way to protest this law, have a bring your own soda day/night. Every person goes to their favorite restaurant with a 2 liter bottle of soda and just ask for a glass with ice!
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• United States
17 Oct 12
No , soda drinkers like me win. Smart soda companies that place soda machines outside all the restaurants in NY win. And New Jersey and the other boarder state win!
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
17 Oct 12
Thats what I am talking about. It has always been this way, the more you tell someone they cannot have something the more they have. It is now in the forefront of everyones mind. If they never started to bash the soda then this would be a non issue. But the powers to be must be making money somehow from this. Either way, people are going to drink soda. And if its not soda then it will be some other sugar loaded beverage. No one wins here.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
It's all about personal responsibility. It's the sale of the Big Gulps that are making people fat, it is the people buying them. As others noted, those who want to drink that much, will find a way. It will really do nothing to make people healthier. Trust me, the folks who are living on Big Gulps are not eating wheat bread and granola the rest of the time. They are eating Big Macs, etc. They will be just as unhealthy with this law as before, just with smaller drinks.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
Besides big Gulps are safe! 7-eleven is exempted! So they can drive and get a Big mac and get a big Gulp on the way home. Or they can do what I hope they do, bring in a 2 liter soda bottle and ask for a glass of ice!
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I think that this has went way to far and a mayor shouldn't have that kind of power to even say what people can drink.....that should be a freedom to make that choice.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
It is a freedom of choice and I wrote McDonalds and said I hope they appeal this all the way to the Surpreme court! But if it stands there are so many ways to get away with drinking a large soda in public!
@shaggin (71573)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I heard about this as well. So when you go to the movies you wont be able to get the largest size soda you will have to get smaller and then hope you can get free refills or you will have to go back and purchase another drink spending more money. I dont think this is going to help people at all they will still drink the amount they usually do.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
yes! This means instead of saving money and buying a large soda and sharing it , you will have to buy two small sodas. Down here Mc Donalds offer any size soda for a 1.00 I think this law will help New Jersey and the other neighboring states. And all the 7-Elevens. See 7-eleven is exempted So people will have flasks filled with soda and sneak them into restaurants or there will be free refills. Or this will be all for naught because the Restaurants will appeal it and a court will see it the way I do , a loss of right of choice.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
19 Sep 12
Maybe the proponents of this law think that they've just won a crucial step into getting people healthy. But in reality, like you said, I think they've just pi55ed a lot of people off. There are certainly many ways around this. And I don't think that people who buy large sodas would stop buying them just because it's 'not' allowed.
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@verolop29 (1096)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I hear a debate going on about this! I do think they went too far with this. I also think they are kinda messing with our freedom of choice when it comes to the size of something we want. I mean, this IS America right? We are basically free to do whatever we want except we have to fallow the law and if we break that law we get what's coming to us. And even that's messed up. Get this: if u take another life u get ten years and that without evidence. But when a little girl or boy is touched in some was by an adult u get 20 to life. I mean anyone can he or she touched me and wham u r fresh meat-in prison! Now I know we're not talking about this I was just giving u an example of how messed up the government is. I understand that's how it is and they're doing it to benifits everyone but still. Whoever came up with this idea should be f.i.r.e.d. This is going too far what's going to be next!? Supersize orders? It would be just fine with me if they would leave that alone but let the buyer know what is in the drink. There's this commercial about a woman buying burgers,fries and a drink. And when she comes to get it the cashier says something like this is ur order or obesedy,clogged arteries, and weight gain. And this other man who's buying smokes, that cashier says this will lead to mouth cancer and other cancers throughout ur body. Then the man changes his mind about buying cigerates all together and leaves without buying any! They should do something like that but I doubt they will. I think we all know what we are in for when we buy what we buy. But some of us don't and those that don't....I don't know about them. I don't even buy supersize anything. I have changed the way I eat and have become a better person because of that. I do eat what I'm not "supposed" to eat but I also eat more whole grains and water. Anyways I am healthy woman at the age of 31. I am overweight but I have no diabetes or cancers. I am going to do something about my weight soon. This was a good speach u did! Well done, friend :)
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• United States
16 Sep 12
I have always been in shape, round. I stopped listening to the Food Nazis in the 80's when they changed their minds about eggs... twice. Since then if I had a dollar for each time a person said my diet was going to give me an disease or kill me , I would be a millionaire! I don't drink the super size drink unless I'm having pizza. I just see this as a loss of choice! I rather die eating what I like than Have to eat veggies and drink water. I will fight for my rights. But this law is so easy to work around. My fave? Just bring in the large soda to the restaurant with you and just ask or get a glass with ice! Thanks. I just ranted what I thought about this stupidity. I have already written both McDonalds and Wendy's with my idea. Before the bring your own 2 liter in idea I wrote McDonald's and Wendy's and said to offer a smaller soda that people can buy threeand it will equate their super size.
16 Sep 12
I think having this bill take effect would definitely benefit the new generation. I notice that kids nowadays are so much into artificial food that at an early age of 12 they are already diabetic and also suffer from diseases that 10 years ago only older people experiences. The government are doing their jobs to guide, guard and take care of its people. And this is just one of the steps and which I think would be very fruitful
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• United States
16 Sep 12
What is the next step , no sodas at all? Then what no red meat, and then what You Must eat fish Then what? I'm sorry I am not a child Nor do I have any children. so because childten are not allowed to run and play and work off the soda they drink , I will have to be forced to eat food I don't want? Do you actually think the kids won't just buy a small and refill it three times? Or just buy the food at one place and a big gulp at the nearest 7-eleven? Really? Or are you for the government taking away Everyone choices?
@kemak28 (724)
• United States
16 Sep 12
I think it's ridiculous.If someone wants that much soda they will just get more then one to make up for the size. People are in control of their health not the place selling it. If you want to eat big Macs at McDonald's everyday that is your choice. I personally wouldn't but or ever want that much soda but maybe some days I would...again it should be up to that individual person.
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• United States
16 Sep 12
And this will backfire. If people have to spend more money on soda at a restaurant , that will mean they will have less money for the other things they would want to buy. So this soda law may hurt other merchants . way to go mayor!