Want a 2 liter with that pizza you ordered? Dictator Bloomberg has now banned that too!

[NaturalBornHustler]

You just can't make this stuff up.

http://www.examiner.com/article/new-...ghtclub-mixers

Starting March 12, New Yorkers will no longer be able to purchase two-liter bottles of soda with their pizzas, thanks to a new ban being put into place by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the New York Post reported Sunday.

According to the Post, pitchers of soft drinks normally used to service multiple people and some bottle-service mixers used in clubs will also be banned under the new rules.

Last week, the city Health Department began sending notices to businesses affected by Bloomberg's latest ban, and, the Post said, "merchants were shocked to see the broad sweep of the new rules."

“It’s not fair. If you’re gonna tell me what to do, it’s no good,” Steve DiMaggio of Caruso’s in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn told the Post. “It’s gonna cost a lot more.”

But the ban will also force families to spend more money for smaller bottles of soda.

Instead of paying three dollars for a two-liter bottle of Coke, for example, consumers will have to pay $7.50 for six 12-ounce cans.

“I really feel bad for the customers," Lupe Balbuena of World Pie said.

Robert Bookman, a lawyer for the New York City Hospitality Alliance, called the ban "ludicrous."

“It’s a sealed bottle of soda you can buy in the supermarket. Why can’t they deliver what you can get in the supermarket?” he asked.

The Post said Bloomberg's rules are "hard to unravel."

"Alcoholic drinks and diet sodas are not subject to the ban, nor are fruit smoothies if they don’t have added sweetener, or coffee drinks and milkshakes if made with 50 percent milk," the Post said.

As for drinks with small amounts of sugar, businesses must ensure there are no more than 3.125 calories per ounce.

Those violating the rules face a $200 fine for each violation.

The Post depicted Bloomberg as a Victorian-era Mary Poppins-like nanny with the caption, "Mayor Poppins' rules"

A post at Twitchy said that "New York is no longer the Big Apple; it’s the Big Brother."

In a post at Michelle Malkin's website, Doug Powers expressed surprise that Bloomberg would allow home delivery of pizzas.

"Bloomberg is still going to allow pizzas to be delivered? Unbelievable. It seems like the obesity from the pizza combined with the global warming from the delivery vehicle would be enough to convince The Nanny to put a stop to it. Maybe that’s next."

Has this idiot lost his fucking mind? What is next mandatory gym time every week? Government workers coming to your house and telling you what you can and can't eat??

Is this what he ran on? Banning everything this out of touch dumb fuck thinks is bad for you?

Where does it end??

[Dan Druff]

Terrible.

But I think it's gay to order soda as part of your pizza delivery. If you want soda, buy it at the store when you do the rest of your shopping.

And are the pizza places really charging $7.50 for a 6-pack of soda over there? Wow.

I absolutely never order drinks as part of any delivery, and I also never do so as part of take-out, unless I'm on the road.

[DRK Star]

soda is so inexpensive that it seems like a waste of money to use a coupon for a 2 litter, when around here, I got 12pcs of wings with a 16" pizza using a coupon. Go stock up on $.99 sodas.

[Dan Druff]

soda is so inexpensive that it seems like a waste of money to use a coupon for a 2 litter, when around here, I got 12pcs of wings with a 16" pizza using a coupon. Go stock up on $.99 sodas.

Yup, you can usually get some great deals on pizzas with a coupon or online code. Anything that involves a soda usually sucks, even if it is part of a "deal".

Like I will get these fail offers where you can get a large pizza, wings, and a soda for $19.99, when you can get the large pizza and wings separately for like $14 total.

[Gordman]

I'd never order a 2 liter with my pizza either, but this is still mighty fucking stupid for a governmental body to impose this kind of control on its people the way Bloomberg has been doing.






Didn't loser Bloomberg even ban giving food donations to homeless shelters because he was worried about monitoring the salt content of the food?? Seriously.

[Dan Druff]

I remember when American Dad had those newspaper headlines during its first season, and one read, "NYC Bans Trans Fats, Fat Trannies Still OK".

[PLOL]

Ridiculous. Still the greatest city in the world tho

[Yiddishdonk]

Ridiculous. Still the greatest city in the world tho

[Crowe Diddly]

I remember when American Dad had those newspaper headlines during its first season, and one read, "NYC Bans Trans Fats, Fat Trannies Still OK".

First few times I saw American Dad, I thought it was the worst. The late night Adult Swim replays showed me how wrong I was. Way better than Family Guy in recent years, I'd say.

[vegas1369]

I remember when American Dad had those newspaper headlines during its first season, and one read, "NYC Bans Trans Fats, Fat Trannies Still OK".

First few times I saw American Dad, I thought it was the worst. The late night Adult Swim replays showed me how wrong I was. Way better than Family Guy in recent years, I'd say.

I put Roger right up there with Beavis and Butthead and Cartman as far as funniest characters in a cartoon series.

Off the subject... Anyone hear if B&B is ever coming back? The last season they did was amazing.

[RichardBrodiesCombover.]

I remember when American Dad had those newspaper headlines during its first season, and one read, "NYC Bans Trans Fats, Fat Trannies Still OK".

First few times I saw American Dad, I thought it was the worst. The late night Adult Swim replays showed me how wrong I was. Way better than Family Guy in recent years, I'd say.

The ban is ridiculous. What a dumb fuck Bloomberg is for doing this.

[Baron Von Strucker]

Anybody that thinks that banning somthing for peoples own good is a plausible idea in this day and age is one misguided individual, in Canada when the government dosent like something because it has health risks and potental expenses down the road, say like tobacco, alcohol, feul, large soft drinks will get a healthy tax hike for instance a pack of I think twenty smokes will cost $11 or a liter of vodka will cost $35 fast food also shares a similar tax.

The thing is everything in America that is bad for you is very inexpensive OBV if it was taxed more people would indulge less that's how it works here. Nothing's perfect though in all societies. unemployed drug addicts can have $500 a day habits.

So if those fatties really want there super big gulp they will find a way to get it.

[BetCheckBet]

Anybody that thinks that banning somthing for peoples own good is a plausible idea in this day and age is one misguided individual, in Canada when the government dosent like something because it has health risks and potental expenses down the road, say like tobacco, alcohol, feul, large soft drinks will get a healthy tax hike for instance a pack of I think twenty smokes will cost $11 or a liter of vodka will cost $35 fast food also shares a similar tax.

The thing is everything in America that is bad for you is very inexpensive OBV if it was taxed more people would indulge less that's how it works here. Nothing's perfect though in all societies. unemployed drug addicts can have $500 a day habits.

So if those fatties really want there super big gulp they will find a way to get it.

Never heard that Canada taxes large softdrinks at higher rate.

That being said I think it is a fine line. There have been plenty of bans on cancer causing chemicals. I mean you don;t see many complaining about the new york ban on transfats.... Problem is people (including myself) aren;t willing to give up soda even if it is best for us.

[Baron Von Strucker]

Anybody that thinks that banning somthing for peoples own good is a plausible idea in this day and age is one misguided individual, in Canada when the government dosent like something because it has health risks and potental expenses down the road, say like tobacco, alcohol, feul, large soft drinks will get a healthy tax hike for instance a pack of I think twenty smokes will cost $11 or a liter of vodka will cost $35 fast food also shares a similar tax.

The thing is everything in America that is bad for you is very inexpensive OBV if it was taxed more people would indulge less that's how it works here. Nothing's perfect though in all societies. unemployed drug addicts can have $500 a day habits.

So if those fatties really want there super big gulp they will find a way to get it.

Never heard that Canada taxes large softdrinks at higher rate.

That being said I think it is a fine line. There have been plenty of bans on cancer causing chemicals. I mean you don;t see many complaining about the new york ban on transfats.... Problem is people (including myself) aren;t willing to give up soda even if it is best for us.

Ya I made that one up but a 2 liter of coke is I think $4, we don't drink it so I can't say for sure. we use a soda stream for carbonated beverages and rarly use mix in alcohol.

I did however find this quote:
Provinces that propose to tax sugary beverages may increase their general revenues; but as a strategy to reduce the severe chronic illness and huge financial costs associated with obesity, it will fail to accomplish anything -- except expanding the power of bureaucrats.

And this
The biggest target of obesity in North America? Soda. Many experts now claim that soda is the new tobacco -- indeed, Google those terms and you get more than 7 million hits. For them, Coke is the new Camel. Let me take a step back and note the basic problem in fighting obesity like we fought tobacco.

[YUUP]

Terrible.

But I think it's gay to order soda as part of your pizza delivery. If you want soda, buy it at the store when you do the rest of your shopping.

And are the pizza places really charging $7.50 for a 6-pack of soda over there? Wow.

I absolutely never order drinks as part of any delivery, and I also never do so as part of take-out, unless I'm on the road.

You've been told people

[GaryQQQ]

It comes as no surprise in a country which has banned the item on the left for being a danger to children, but not the item on the right.

[4Dragons]

It comes as no surprise in a country which has banned the item on the left for being a danger to children, but not the item on the right.

Millions of the thing on the right exist in private households without millions of dead children to follow. I suppose it's harder to ban maniacs instead of tools though. Governments with unlimited power kill millions, not citizens.

[PLOL]

It comes as no surprise in a country which has banned the item on the left for being a danger to children, but not the item on the right.

NYC has pretty strict gun laws.