I think your company started to lose its way when they dropped the Cocaine out of the ingredients! Imagine how popular it would be today?
So what do we drink? Whatever you recommend someone will say that its bad for you eh !? Everything in moderation ?
Fat bastards already hooked on sugar will still buy the stuff, regardless of the price.....which is what Osborne is relying upon.
I drink weak green tea and water mainly with the occasional G&T. I firmly believe that most people are semi dehydrated most of the time due to the dehydrating nature of tea, coffee and alcohol.
No course not - I'm old! Soz,that was meant for Sprocker whose firm is responsible for all the lardies in uk!
When I was a kid I spent all my pocket money on sweets, drank squash and any fizzy pop that came my way and so did most other kids. There weren't many real fatties at school and so the few there were stood out. I wasn't overweight myself and at 48 I haven't a single filling in my head (touch wood it stays that way). But we did eat proper food at proper meal times and spent most of our time in between riding bicycles and climbing trees.
I can see where they are going with the sugar tax fizzy drink thinking - as we all know we seem to follow America and they have a whole generation of morbidly obese kids soon to be adults but no NHS! Most don't have private health cover and even if they could afford the premium what company would want the business of a guaranteed diabetic,potential stroke/heart attack case? We have a NHS but if our kids go the same lifestyle route it will surely implode
As They sell a drink in Spain (I forget the name at the mo!) that claims to be sugar and Aspartame free and is just carbonated minerals that youngsters especially benefit from as well as the elderly and those who are recovering from surgery - the Spanish,Germans and Dutch swear by it! You see all the gymnasium freaks and body beautiful lot always carrying a bottle or tin
Personally I don't think the government is doing tax on sugar for any health reasons at all, it is purely £££ in the bank, the issue is that current people have already reduced their luxury spend to be alba to afford the necessities, so then we have the tampon tax debate! What the government need to do is ensure prisoners are in worst luxury living conditions than decent people on the outside, this would mean a saving on TV licence and other luxury costs as direct expense, then this saved money would be in the bank to give those less fortunate, there is a program on tele soon about a disabled guy who after all his benefit cuts cannot afford the bus to get to see his children or attend maybe a social coffee morning, he has to sit and look at the 4 walls of his home all day, I know for certain I am happy to pay tax for people that need a bit of a life worth living than keeping inmates kitted out with TV's, pool tables, state of the art gyms and things the government says it must provide for basic human rights,....right should be for decent living citisns first,....... my opinion, rant over!!!
