Friday, September 19, 2014
McDonald's going super sized in Tonbridge....
As predicted here on Tonbridge blog there is a planning application in for a huge new McDonalds, with drive thru (with American spelling of course) if the report in today's Courier is anything to go by. This will be handy if you happen to be feeling hungry when buying a bag of screws at B&Q or if you are peckish when buying paint at Homebase next door. Not sure that many will go too far out of their way but you can bet your bottom dollar that good old Maccie D's will have done their home work. There's no doubt that it would be a welcome boost to jobs in the area and, as the spokesperson for the food chain says (apparently with no sense of irony at all, although it's difficult to tell from a quote) those employed at the new restaurant will have ..."access to leading training schemes, as well as the opportunity to gain nationally recognised qualifications." They'll be able to flip burgers with the best of them anywhere in the world!...
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No doubt the obesity problem will worsen in Tonbridge (not to mention the litter) once there is 24 hour access to burger and chips. Do we really need another junk food outlet?
No one will be forced to buy food from this outlet, so what's your problem anonymous?
Exactly Paul! Fat / drunk / unfit / people should take responsibility for their actions. Far too much blame culture - cheap booze, too much fast food, etc... No one forces them to eat / drink what they do. My kids (and me) like a burger every now and again - there's no harm in that...
Adults have a choice about what they eat: children generally do not. Both obesity and poor eating habits usually start in childhood and are often linked to poverty. Before the arrival of fast food outlets from America in the late sixties, childhood obesity was almost unknown in this country - now it is a mega (and expensive) problem, which is causing serious health problems such as diabetes and heart disease in later life.
So banning fast food is the answer, anonymous? Just what we need, even more state control and interference in our daily lives!
The obesity problem you refer to is due a lack of self-discipline, lack of parental control and lack of exercise, and whilst it may be fashionable to blame fast food for the country’s ill health, no-one is holding a gun to peoples’ heads and forcing them to eat the stuff!
The argument about poverty and poor eating habits is a spurious one as well; but is one those in favour of more state control like to push. People are far better off now than they were a generation or two ago. I could start a rant here like the Four Yorkshiremen in the famous Monty Python Sketch, but instead I will just point out the following.
I would lay money that the people who are bleating they cannot afford to eat healthily, all have large, flat-screen TV’s, Smart Phones, I-Pads, computers and other “must have” electronic devices. Most of them will own and drive a car. A great many of them will smoke or drink (quite often both), but it is society’s fault they have to eat junk-food, rather than their own selfishness/laziness/stupidity, and the Government i.e. the tax-payer should do something about it!
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