Food Industry is changing at last...

[Sair33]

Great news I think!

Asda have taken Sunny D off the shelves due to a huge drop in sales.
Carbonated drink sales generally have also dropped, while drinking yoghurts, juices and water sales have risen hugely.
I was "people watching" a while ago, and there a bunch of school children sitting outside having all been into the local shop to buy drinks, and they were nearly all drinking fruit juice or water. I didn't see one can of carbonated drink....

People are also becoming far more aware of high salt levels, and despite Heinz reducing the salt in their beans by 30%, they haven't received one complaint. The less salt you eat, the less you feel the need to add it to food.

At long last... the food industry looks as though it is moving in the right direction

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story...ticle_continue

http://bigbarn.co.uk/food/articles/?articleid=200

[schmunk]

I was "people watching" a while ago, and there a bunch of school children sitting outside having all been into the local shop to buy drinks, and they were nearly all drinking fruit juice or water. I didn't see one can of carbonated drink....

That's because you're in Aylesbury, not because society's changing...

[Sair33]

That's because you're in Aylesbury, not because society's changing...

I was in London at the time

[malfunction]

It's a sad fact that I'll probably drink coke until they find out it gives you cancer or something. Have switched to diet though - and do drink loads more fruit juice and such these days. (don't drink coffee so need another source of caffeine!)

[Auran]

Of course diet coke rots your teeth as fast as fat coke and the sugar substitutes are hardly healthy either

[malfunction]

I figure if I'm still drinking beer then there's no need to give up the bad soft stuff

[Rave]

Come to think of it I haven't seen a Sunny D-sh1te advert on the telly for ages. I hope they end up not being able to sell the crappy chemical laden filth altogether, just because I despise them so much for claiming that it's "great stuff" for kids.

Next, I want the utterly contemptible adverts for Cheerios, Shredded Wheat and all the other crappy Nestle cereal brands banned on the grounds of their utter offensiveness to common decency. They contain whole grains do they? And "scientists say that they may contribute to a healthy heart" eh? Whoopdy-****ing-do. Judith Chalmers told me that eating overpriced, rubbish tasting processed cereal products may contribute to my having a healthy heart, so lets go out and support a company that for 30 years has continued to make money selling baby formula to poor nations, killing their babies in the process.

Die in the face. You too, Botham.

[nichomach]

And...relax.

Seriously though, you've got a point.

[Tarffie]

Was wondering about SunnyD the other day whilst in Tesco when I noticed there wasn't any in the orange juice bit. Haven't drank that in chuffing aaaaaaaaaaaaaages, my teeth are still recovering.

[Michael]

Aye, I really like innocent smoothies at the momeny, but damn they are expensive!


... Just need to cut down on McDonalds now... twice a week can't be too good.

[Rave]

Never forget that supermarkets are the enemy. The latest thing to get on my wick is the sudden proliferation, post Jamie's School Dinners, of 'active kids' and 'five-a-day' branding on pre-packed vegetables (which are a rip-off compared to the loose stuff anyway). Yes Mr Sainsbury, vegetables are in theory good for you, but in practice some/most of your stuff is mushy intensively grown pap from a poly-tunnel in Almeria, grown with plenty of cheap north-African immigrant quasi-slave labour, and containing a fraction of the nutrients of traditionally grown veg. You counter-revolutionary capitalist pigdog.

[pp05]

They have no choice but to act and save their own necks.

[directhex]

That's because you're in Aylesbury, not because society's changing...

the "selected as the most vile urban wasteland in the country by kubrik, for beating up homeless people in a clockwork orange" town?

[schmunk]

the "selected as the most vile urban wasteland in the country by kubrik, for beating up homeless people in a clockwork orange" town?

TBH, I'm not sure I've ever been to Aylesbury. It just has a posh-sounding name.


(Like Harrow, which for the most part is a complete dump)

[[GSV]Trig]

Have switched to diet though

Yup that'll make you fat then eh, the artificial sweeteners in Diet Coke cant be broken down by the body so you store them, makes me lol when you see all these fat mofo's drinking it cos its got less sugar in it, cant beat the good old marketting machine eh

[menthel]

Someone fetch Rave some tinfoil to stop the transmissions.............

Supermarkets are still terrible places, with their kenyan veg and their unhung meat. If I could afford it I would shop with those people who send you food boxes, but I can't. Waitrose do nice meet though.