More ‘Salty’ Proof The Brit Nanny-State Has Lost Its Fooking Mind
So, let me get this straight … Our Brit cousins across the ‘global-warming pond’ have no problems opening the jailhouse doors and letting free terrorists … but they are having a fit about how much damn salt folks are shaking on their fish and chips???
Bloody hell …
Just fire-up the jets. We’ll be heading over soon enough to bail their arses out … again.
Now health and safety cut number of holes in chip shop salt shakers
By Polly Dunbar
Pot-holed roads, crumbling schools, litter-strewn streets – there’s no shortage of problem areas crying out for their attention.
But councils believe they have found a better use for their money: reducing the number of holes in chip shop salt shakers.
Research has suggested that slashing the holes from the traditional 17 to five could cut the amount people sprinkle on their food by more than half.
And so at least six councils have ordered five-hole shakers – at taxpayers’ expense – and begun giving them away to chip shops and takeaways in their areas.
Leading the way has been Gateshead Council, which spent 15 days researching the subject of salty takeaways before declaring the new five-hole cellars the solution.
Officers collected information from businesses, obtained samples of fish and chips, measured salt content and ‘carried out experiments to determine how the problem of excessive salt being dispensed could be overcome by design’.
They decided that the five-hole pots would reduce the amount of salt being used by more than 60 per cent yet give a ‘visually acceptable sprinkling’ that would satisfy the customer.
The council commissioned Drywite Ltd – a catering equipment company based in the West Midlands – to make five-hole shakers and bought 1,000 of them at a cost of £2,000, giving them away to fast-food outlets in their areas.
Drywite confirms that it has since received orders for the shakers from at least five other councils, including Rochdale Borough in Greater Manchester.
Another giving the shakers away is Labour-controlled Middlesbrough Council, where the idea has run into fierce criticism.
Cllr Chris Hobson, leader of the Conservatives, said: ‘This is just silly, a total waste of money in an area where council tax is very high. I’m all for good health but do they really think they are going to stop people using as much salt simply by putting fewer holes in thecellar? They’ll just shake it for longer.’
Beryl Scott, who owns the Chipchase Chippy in Linthorpe in the city, said a council worker had visited the previous week to explain the merits of less salty fish and chips. ‘He said he had a salt cellar with five holes to give me free.
I thought it was a joke. It doesn’t matter how many holes it has, people are going to put on as much salt as they want.’
Another local chip shop owner, Carol Ackerman, who runs Carol’s Plaice in the suburb of Acklam, said: ‘People will just put on more salt if they want more.
‘In fact, we have had some people unscrewing the lids to do so.’
Gateshead Council defended its decision. A spokesman said: ‘Research carried out by us discovered customers were often receiving huge quantities of salt with their fish and chips – up to half their daily allowance. The council was so disturbed it decided to commission a manufacturer to produce a salt shaker with fewer holes, which it distributed free to every fish and chip shop and hot food takeaway in Gateshead.
‘We believe the cost to be a small price to pay for potentially saving lives.’
The scheme is being promoted by the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services, which is responsible for ensuring councils follow food hygiene rules. A spokesman said: ‘Heart disease costs taxpayers £7billion a year so to say that projects such as this are a waste of money is mind-boggling.’
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WTF???? The Brits have gone starkers, mates! And this is what our illustrious democRat party will do to us, once they have absolute control of all three federal branches. Watch out.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:33 amThe brits are good people but they have a serious leadership problem at the moment. seem to be the way our country is trying to head and thankfully we’re all trying to stop it.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:32 amGee, I guess that mean they’ll have to shake it more or open it up and put some salt in their hand.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:36 amWHAT THE FUCK?!?!
ever tried a rancid “fish & chips”, that’s why salt is needed
they’d better put some water in the beer
June 29th, 2008 at 12:40 pmShouldn’t the amount of holes-in-the-head count towards election to a seat in Parliament? More than two and you can’t serve.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:29 pmHow freaking rediculous is this story?
I need a freaking beer.
Now we know how many (ass) holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
i might have known,gateshead council,near me and run by a bunch of labour asshats oh hold on if the buttwards on mine try and pull a stunt like that there will be hell to pay,stupid ideas are like the clap in a whorehouse sooner or later everybody gets a dose
June 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pmSorry drillanwr, you will have to remind me when you bailed our arses out before.
I mean it couldn’t be WW1 you were talking about as you didn’t actually arrive until the last year of the war when the Germans had already been largely defeated.
It couldn’t be WW2 you were talking about seeing as you didn’t join that until 3 years after us and a year after Hitler had given up any hope of invading the UK. Even then it was only after you had been directly attacked yourself and after we had paid for all the material assistance you had given us, the only country in Europe required to pay.
So what are you talking about?
June 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm_________________________________
Ever hear of “Lend, Lease” ?
June 29th, 2008 at 3:19 pmYep,
“Britain will settle its World War II debts to the US and Canada when it pays two final instalments before the close of 2006, the Treasury has said.
The payments of $83.25m (£42.5m) to the US and US$22.7m (£11.6m) to Canada are the last of 50 instalments since 1950.
The amount paid back is nearly double that loaned in 1945 and 1946.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6215847.stm
June 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm“no repayments have been made to or received from other nations since 1934.”
“the only country in Europe required to pay.
the UK economy was less damaged, y comprise the colonial empire, it wasn’t the case for the french colonial empire, that had also been occupied by the Germans and where many fights occured
the Marshall plan, as it helped to reconstruct a devasted EU, was also and mostly ment for economical agendas : thus we, the EU, could buy the US goods, culture… while boycotting exportations of certain of our new remanufactured goods towards the eastern block ; at the same time, the creation of Nato was pushed ahead ; buy arms as also the deal. If you compare the money loans and the trade results, you see on wich side the weights are positive.
though I am not sure that money wasn’t paid back either.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Adam
June 29th, 2008 at 6:00 pmIt doesn’t matter weather you pay us back or not, or that lend-lease existed.
The fact remains, if it were not for the economic might of The United States, building every thing that you needed for your military; you would not have been able to stand up against Hitler. We gave you every thing
All you say is true, but if it were not for The United States, you would be blogging in high-German.
And we sent you our Spam …
Too bad we can’t send you the new “Spam” we deal with today.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:26 pmHomegrown terrorist groups plotting the demise of the govt and British culture, blowing up trains, buses etc, and the govt is focused on the number of holes in a fckng salt shaker?
June 29th, 2008 at 6:54 pm“Heart disease costs taxpayers £7billion a year so to say that projects such as this are a waste of money is mind-boggling”
Now I see why Libs want universal healthcare, they can then control everything we do as a matter of “societal costs”.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm:roll:This is what they are worried about
June 30th, 2008 at 2:27 am