SpaceCoastVol
Jacked up on moonshine and testosterone
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It's not right but this has been a pursuit of mine for a while. My "labor of love" up here is trying to find candidates that will work with farmers and co-ops to bring the price of "healthy" foods down so that fast food restaurants no longer serve as a primary source of "nutrition" for low-income families. I was middle-class until My parents split and my mom and stepdad struggled. There was a lot of dollar menu in my life and I paid for it dearly wth my health as a teenager. That changed once my stepdads business took off, but I can't even go near these places anymore and wish they were consigned to oblivion.
It's not right but this has been a pursuit of mine for a while. My "labor of love" up here is trying to find candidates that will work with farmers and co-ops to bring the price of "healthy" foods down so that fast food restaurants no longer serve as a primary source of "nutrition" for low-income families. I was middle-class until My parents split and my mom and stepdad struggled. There was a lot of dollar menu in my life and I paid for it dearly wth my health as a teenager. That changed once my stepdads business took off, but I can't even go near these places anymore and wish they were consigned to oblivion.
The answer is that your mom should have stayed at home to be the homemaker and your father or stepfather should have been the ones bringing home the bacon.
Its worked for 8,000 years but in the last 2 generations, we seem to think that it just doesn't work anymore.
You are fighting against the wrong things.... it's not sodas or fast food that is hurting the health of this generation....it's all of our convienence items that are hurting the kids health......video games, cell phones, battery operated riding toys or anything else that makes our kids inactive... my kids eat a lot of fast food and drink their share of sodas but are extremely healthy bc they are very active. Also at most fast food places, you can eat a healthy option for a little more than a dollar but you didn't choose that option... it is what freedom is about.
The answer is that your mom should have stayed at home to be the homemaker and your father or stepfather should have been the ones bringing home the bacon.
Its worked for 8,000 years but in the last 2 generations, we seem to think that it just doesn't work anymore.
It's not right but this has been a pursuit of mine for a while. My "labor of love" up here is trying to find candidates that will work with farmers and co-ops to bring the price of "healthy" foods down so that fast food restaurants no longer serve as a primary source of "nutrition" for low-income families. I was middle-class until My parents split and my mom and stepdad struggled. There was a lot of dollar menu in my life and I paid for it dearly wth my health as a teenager. That changed once my stepdads business took off, but I can't even go near these places anymore and wish they were consigned to oblivion.
I had a NYC layover a few years ago. We landed at EWR (Newark) and the hotel was in midtown Manhattan. So the van picked up the whole crew, pilots and flight attendants and we are on our way. One of the FAs had never been to the city and was so excited. She was looking at everything. Then we come to the stoplight and this guy right beside the van whips it out and starts whizzing a "tree" on the sidewalk. She was horrified. I laughed and told her "Welcome to New York".They'll do that before they make it illegal to take a dump on them.
But what drives Philadelphians to drink so much alcohol?
The short answer is that outside of prohibition, Philadelphians have always consumed large quantities of alcohol. And as many Philadelphians might point out, prohibition wasn't much of an obstacle for the city's dedicated alcohol consumers.
When it comes to alcohol consumption then, the city of Philadelphia is starting out with a strong base. So what might prompt already heavy-drinking Philadelphians to boost their alcohol consumption to even higher levels?
Believe it or not, the city's controversial tax on soft drinks would appear to be behind the city's recent surge in alcohol sales. Last August, Scott Drenkard and Courtney Shupert of the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that Philadelphia's "high tax rate on nonalcoholic beverages makes them more expensive than beer in some cases", which they believed was "likely to drive consumers to more alcoholic beverage consumption".
That is something to think about. This has been a great year for Philly sports and that is a sports town. Not just the Eagles but Nova won the NCAA, the Sixers made the playoffs and the Phillies are in first place. I guarantee business at the city sports bars is way up.I wonder if they took Super Bowl Sunday into account?