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An Ordinary Pizza, Please

A simple short quiz to start off with today.

You don’t need a college degree to get these right – in fact, any of you ordinary folk will probably do better.

Please answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the following four simple questions:

1. If someone eats pizza once, will he/she likely eat it again?

2. Is pizza high in calories?

3. Does ‘meat-lover’s’ pizza have more calories than a ‘veggie’ pizza’?

4. If one overindulges in high caloric foods, might he/she gain weight?

Now if you answered ‘no’ to any of these questions, be careful as someone may nominate you to serve in the California Legislature. If you answered ‘yes’ to all of these questions, then you might wonder why the FDA feels that it is necessary that pizza places with 20 or more locations across the U.S. must put a myriad of caloric information not only on each menu, but also on each advertisement or flyer that lists a phone number. Some group, who thinks it knows better than us ordinary folk, obviously feels that Americans in general need help and guidance when ordering a pizza.

If I like sausage on my pizza, am I going to switch to pepperoni because there is one less calorie per slice in a large, thin-crust pizza? If I am a vegetarian, am I going to exclude onions or mushrooms because each adds 2 additional calories per slice? Call me, ‘crazy’, but my answer to each of the last two questions is not only, ‘No’, but also ‘WTF, are you kidding me’!

At this point one might ask which group could have thought up this nonsense. This over 100-page FDA rule is required by the Affordable Care Act . . . You know the “you’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it” law that was passed solely and entirely by Democrats. But it even gets worse, as this mumbo-jumbo also covers movie theaters, grocery stores, and breweries!  The Food Marketing Institute, a supermarket trade association, says that compliance will cost at least $1 billion.

Who do you think is going to pay for this?

If you guessed, ‘us ordinary folk’, you would be right!

FYI- this law is due to go into effect, after multiple delays, on May 5th of this year. So my advice to all ordinary folk, “if you are planning to go out for a brew and a pizza before taking in a movie, do it before May 5th”!

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