Sugar Tax

While on the subject and a sideline does anyone understand this modern craving for chocolate?
Some years ago it was just another sweet in the sweet shop.
We all liked a chocolate bar now and again.

Then something changed and it was stated that it has some effect on the brain.

Since then it has been very trendy to say you love it or even crave it, gotta say, I like chocolate but it has no effect on me.

You also get similar strange people saying they cant get along without coffee, yeah I drink coffee, but it also has no effect on me.

Are people being brainwashed ? I tend to think they are, its the old placebo effect.

Got a mate at work who insists on decaf tea.

 

It's the same old story though to me, people just consume more these days.

Eat too much of anything and it will affect you.

 

With chocolate once i open a bar i have to eat the lot, i can't eat half of it, it's all or nowt, if someone offers me some i say no or i have to fight them for the lot

 

10yrs ago he would have been told to S*D off, you'll have the same as everyone else.

 

This is where it all goes silly, as far as I can work out there are different ways of decaffeinating tea or coffee.
Mostly based on altering what is basically a natural substance and probably altering why the drink was first considered worthwhile drinking in the first place.

 

Funny you should say that, got the mugs mixed up the other day, neither could notice the difference when I asked.
But if you gave me decaf coffee I'm pretty sure I could tell, if it was real coffee and not instant.#

Most instant coffee is pretty rank, but I prefer it to tea made with different water to what I'm used to.
In short, only drink tea at home, everyone else's tastes strange to me.

 

It is just another tax....

Where does the money go I hear you ask ??????

Well the government withdrew the funding for the so called breakfast clubs for young underprivileged children....

They took this money away from essentially the poorest sector of society.

This is the very same government who among themselves claim 57 million in expenses for food and beverage. That’s right they took 28 million of underprivileged kids while the gorging pigs ( please excuse my terminology) scoff and drink 57 million quids worth between themselves.

Anyway back to the point.

The money raised from the sugar tax will be used to fund the re introduction of the breakfast clubs.

Remember .... We are all in it together. Yeh right.

One point re the sugar tax. Not everyone who enjoys a glass of full fat Coke or Pepsi is fat or needs to loose weight. But they pay anyway. Ahhhh maybe we are in it altogether..

Please excuse my rant..

 

I gave up drinking tea and coffee thirty years ago and would say that caffeine definitely has an effect. Just to see if I liked it now I tried coffee last year and halfway through I had to stop drinking because it made me 'hyper' and gave me the shakes. I've not touched it since.