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Two places in the East Bay have decided to start thinking about the children and are proposing new rules and regulations on fast-food joints to help fight the supposed epidemic of fattie children.
First up is Oakland which is thinking about taxing certain merchants a few extra bucks to help clean up the messes left by customers, something that is apparently becoming a problem. The legislation is primarily aimed at fast-food joints and conveyance stores, especially near schools, as that's where most of the mess is. Which raises the question what is wrong with the kids today? Can't they pick up after themselves or are they to fat these days to bend over and pick something up? Why, when we were kids, we'd walk three miles in the snow to pick up our KFC boxes. Merchants, of course, do not like the new legislation and think it could hurt business. That sound you hear is the sound of the world's smallest violin playing a sad symphony for McDonalds.
Then there's Contra Costa County which is thinking about restricting the amount of fast-food chains in the county, especially near schools. The measure, which was passed by the county Board of Supervisors, doesn’t specifically make clear how it will be done, it just says something must be done. Besides limiting the amount of restaurants in the area, the measure calls for more education and other things to help promote a more "healthy lifestyle." In response, flaks for the fast-food industry basically said, "dream on, white boy" and pointed out that in the end, it's all just a matter of people actively choosing not to eat a Big Mac.
Mmmm....Big Mac....
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Unfortunately, the type of people, young and old, who frequent places like McDonalds and KFC are often the types who have no regard for themselves and their environment.
Many times I've seen them just walking down the street throwing their wrappers on the ground with no care in the world. Or if not walking down the street, throwing it out of their cars.
Perhaps they are too ignorant to care. I'm a true believer that there are genuinely stupid people who live in the world and that nothing can be done about it.
But the real problem isn't the fast food chains (the actual franchise owner is a small business person). The problem is that when you sell food for the cost of peanuts, you get monkeys as your customers.
The problem is related to parents, I'm afraid - I watched a young mother on the 22-fillmore show her children how to stuff their mcdonalds wrappers/napkins/trash behind the bus seat (one of the sideways-y facing seats in the back of the bus) on a crowded bus in broad daylight. This is what we are up against - parents who actively teach their children to, well, leave it for someone else to clean up.
Speaking of KFC, where'd the store on Valencia Street go!? Not that I ever ate there, but rather enjoyed the smell of biscuits wafting through the air whenever I walked by. If they made a perfume sent of that...
Damnit, George, you stole one of my posts as I was about to mention the KFC being gone. I didn't even know it was going until I walked by there and didn't get that familiar scent of secret herbs and spices and grease. And like you, I never went there, but ooh that smell.....
That image is fun-ney!