UK frowns on ice cream. :(

**Nid** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 6:53am

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...170199,00.html

Why ice-cream vans face total meltdown
By Rajeev Syal and David Sanderson

Those familiar jingles could be a thing of the past if a health campaign succeeds

FOR 60 years the tinny jingle of Greensleeves that announced the arrival of the ice-cream van has been an indelible memory of childhood, but that sound may soon be removed from suburban streets. Health lobbyists have decided that ice-creams are too much of a danger to children’s health.

Are latch-key children of Neds and Chavs living off ice cream or something?

:5baby:

**crowey** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 8:15am

bah. healthfood nazis. one of the best parts of the summer term was getting an ice cream on the walk home.

**Lights Out** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 8:23am

Ice cream should not be frowned upon. It should be smiled upon, with great glee I might add.

**Mr Han** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 1:32pm

I hate this country more and more every day.

If the war on Iraq doesn't recruit more suicide bombers this will.:new_icecr

**Truculent Sheep** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 4:21pm

My brother, his mates and I got ice cream from outside school nearly every day. They didn't get fat. Then again their parents didn't feed them junk food, they were encouraged to go out and play and they didn't have health apparatchiks breathing down their necks.

Mr. Softee is just a scapegoat. No one has the bottle to face up to negligent parents, and that's where the solution lies.

**Nid** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 4:45pm

'Nother question.

wtf?

By the 1980s the business had become so lucrative that gangs fought over the right to sell to certain streets. In 1984 a row between Glasgow-based gangs led to the murder of six members of the Doyle family, who had run the Marchetti ice-cream company.

**Mr Han** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 5:21pm

Originally Posted by Truculent Sheep

My brother, his mates and I got ice cream from outside school nearly every day. They didn't get fat. Then again their parents didn't feed them junk food, they were encouraged to go out and play and they didn't have health apparatchiks breathing down their necks.

Mr. Softee is just a scapegoat. No one has the bottle to face up to negligent parents, and that's where the solution lies.

Yep. Its a scapegoat.
Physical Education classes in most schools in the UK suck. At my school, we only did 1 hour of P.E. twice a week. In fact, usually it was less than 1 hour. P.E. needs a major fucking overhaul, and much more time needs to be given to it in the school curriculum. Perhaps then we would have a few less fatties. But more importantly its the parents.

Parents need to give their kids proper food and not junk food and stop being whiny cunts. I hate seeing things on TV with parents saying something to the tune of
"I know junk food is bad for them, but sometimes you are just so busy that its easier to give them something quick and simple to eat" :eusa_booh
The parent usually starts to feel sorry for themselves and believes themselves to be a bad parent. Which is what they are. But you usually get someone who comes along saying "But we shouldn't blame it all on the parents!"
True, we shouldn't blame it all on the parents, but most of it comes down to them and how they raise their child.

**Goju - Joe** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 5:33pm

The secret is to make the kids come out for the ice cream and then slowly drive off for 6 blocks. The kids have to run to catch up and burn off the calories.

Problem solved

GoJu-joe saves the day

**BoardHitBack** · Posted On: 5/09/2006 5:54pm

Originally Posted by Truculent Sheep

My brother, his mates and I got ice cream from outside school nearly every day. They didn't get fat. Then again their parents didn't feed them junk food, they were encouraged to go out and play and they didn't have health apparatchiks breathing down their necks.

Mr. Softee is just a scapegoat. No one has the bottle to face up to negligent parents, and that's where the solution lies.

It's not just neglience on the part of parents. Its widespread ignorance about food preparation and cooking. People buy cheap mass produced crap that is full of sugar fat and chemical bollocks. Then they bung it in a microwave and toss it on a plate for their kids.

The sad part is they don't know any better.

It's not as if we don't have the means to educate kids about basic home economics. We just don't do it anymore.

Banning ice cream vans near schools is such a politcian's response. Fucking pathetic.

You want healthy children? Compulsory judo in all schools, 6+. Everyone for one hour a day minimum until they are 16. Tell the fucking bitches that whinge about this draconian policy to bend over and insert a sharp metal stick in their ass without lube.