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  Alex Harris

  11 months ago

  It's also worth pointing out that the tofu bars are probably a bit above the price range of the fast food joints. While we D.C. yuppies may be able to plop down $13 for our masaman tofu, we shouldn't force our expensive tastes on others.
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  Allen

  11 months ago

  A couple weeks ago there was some press about this. A buddy said no way will anything happen, just some city council nutt job getting attention. I disagreed. After all Chicago banned fraux graux [sic] and Wal-Mart. Looks like it is, if anything, gaining momentum.
  
  This is one of the problems when you have the government instead of private organizations providing services. One of the core arguments is that it's costing govt more to provide health care. It becomes an excuse to micromanage individual peoples lives.
  
  I caught a story about this on NPR yesterday morning too. Maybe I misunderstood but it seemed that either some officials, or at least the reporter doing the story, simplified the situation to the point where they said that sit down meals were more healthy. Now I thought it was pretty clear that just because you sit down at Applebees, Macaroni Grille, or TGI Fridays that the food is often just as "bad for you" as the "fast food". I suppose that shouldn't be surprising when they're simplifying an issue as complex as obesity along the age oldmis perception that skinny === healthy and that too much food === obese.
  
  And does this mean that places like Chipotle can not open stores there? Are they "bad" fast food or good?
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