New York, NY – Amid New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on big sodas — taking effect in March — are some details that may have been overlooked.
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Say goodbye to that 2-liter soda with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid’s birthday party and some bottle-service mixers at your favorite nightclub, The New York Post reports http://t.co/fIjaDUllz4 .
The mayor’s new rules prohibit restaurants from serving or selling soda in containers larger than 16 ounces.
The rules will force consumers to pay more for smaller containers. Under the ban, they would have to buy six 12-ounce cans at an average cost of $7.50 to get an equivalent amount of a $3 2-liter bottle.
Mizmor L’soda.
Why not ban pizza altogether?
He is such a liberal bully.
So now it comes out. This has nothing to do with our health and everything to do with the 5 cent deposit on cans and bottles. Maybe VIN should get SodaStream to advertise and restaurants and pizza stores to drop their no outside food allowed regarding sodas.
makes no difference to him. money is no object
This mayor and his nanny-state ideology are idiotic
Urir Haman…..
1 slice per person over 21
Its high time NYC’ers grow some and March on city hall to let Mayor Duneberg know he has overstepped his boundaries!! WE THE PEOPLE and not THE GOVT.
Enough is enough!!!!
i think they should weigh the slices. nothing more than 4 ounces
I know most of us feel the mayor has no right to meddle with our food and beverage choices. We are adults, right? But we do make poor choices, especially about drinks. Sodas, particularly diet ones, don’t properly hydrate the body. They induce weight gain – yes, even the diet ones! We don’t drink enough water, Yidden. Do yourself and your children a favor. Google these two words: dehydration and depression. We all need water – just water. Not the water in soda nor in coffee or even juices. How much water do you need daily? Divide your weight by two. The answer is the number of ounces in just water your body needs daily. So a 140 lb person needs 70 ounces of water a day. A 200 lb person needs 100 oz/day. The mayor has some chochmah. Let’s find the good in it.
Our kids will be getting yearly calenders with exactly what and how much they are allowed to eat every day…..
Welcome to USSA!!
What are the rules for carbonated pizza?
Nanny Bloomberg. What chutzpah. Move to Wisconsin, you can eat what you want…of course we have no Kosher restaurants to speak of, but still…all the SODA you can drink!!!!!
Its so hard to take the outrage seriously from a community who were staunch supporters of this politician
8. ELEPHANT Says: 1 slice per person over 21
And he should bring a paper from his doctor that he is not overweight!
Bloomberg will also implement fares for buses and subways that will be based on weight. The logic is that if it takes more fuel to transport a heavier person, that expense should be passed on to the consumer. Conversely, people who properly diet and exercise and therefore weigh less should pay less.
won’t it be bad for the environment to have 6 small bottels trashed rather than 1 big one?
So let me be sure I understand: Bloomberg won’t allow to buy a two liter soda when i take out my family out to dinner, but I can buy as many cartons of cigarettes as I like without a peep from him?
I mean, so long as I pay the incredibly high taxes on cigarette sales, cancer is okay, but obesity is not?
if someone wants to stop eat pizza and drinking soda trust me it’s possible. everybody knows there limit. so mr mayor back off and mind or own business.
Bloomberg, i guess doesn’t care what people think of him, why not getting our streets cleaner or more often garbage pick ups? isn’t the smell of garbage dangerous?