Eggs For The Omelet, As It Were
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Michelle Obama wants grocery stores to install talking grocery carts that will encourage shoppers to buy healthier food.
I predict that as soon as my medical records become part of Obama-care, the NSA will monitor the bar code scanner as I load the talking grocery cart with purchases and when it sees the package of Hostess Ding Dongs, a red light will flash and the cart will shout “HELP HELP UNWISE FOOD CHOICE IN AISLE THREE” until a Team Member arrives to take away the unhealthy item to replace it with a nice head of broccoli.
I can hardly wait.
Joe Doakes
It’ll have to do until the kids are trained to do the ratting-out more reliably.
July 23rd, 2014 at 7:37 am
“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
July 23rd, 2014 at 7:41 am
“It’ll have to do until the kids are trained to do the ratting-out more reliably.”
Google “DARE” and get back to me.
July 23rd, 2014 at 10:00 am
If they electronically duplicated her voice in the shopping cart devices I’d bet that purchases would definitely plummet. At least until the shoppers got their appetites back …
July 23rd, 2014 at 10:42 am
Ha DARE, even as a young little evil thing I knew it was complete bullshit.
July 23rd, 2014 at 10:44 am
Psycho-eyes trying to assert her inflated self importance?
July 23rd, 2014 at 10:56 am
Some of us would take pleasure in seeing how frustrated we could make the voice nagging us to do what it says.
Some of us would take great joy in hacking those carts to put out other messages to drive the leftie weenies nuts.
July 23rd, 2014 at 11:04 am
Maybe she can get her husband to lay off the Charcoal Grill, and Snoop Dogg to stop smokin’ dope in the White House bathroom, before harassing the rest of us.
Just sayin’.
It’s also worth noting; good luck getting the RFIDs on the products to trigger only when they’re in the cart, and good luck getting grocers to pay for the system. You could just walk by the Hostess part of the aisle and it would go berserk.
July 23rd, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Given that following the Governments Food Pyramid through the years with it’s emphasis on carbs would make you fat, do we really want to let Mrs. Obama and government food “scientists” tell people what to eat now?
When I was a kid in the 70’s, the nuns who were my teachers would tell us that if it were up to us children, all we would eat would be hamburgers and pizza. Funny thing, people of my generation grew up and proved the nuns right.
July 23rd, 2014 at 12:22 pm
So I guess all you wingnuts want to go to the store and buy your children whatever YOU want?
The next thing you know, you will be wanting to teach them whatever values YOU WANT!!!
Where will it end?
Why do you hate the children?
July 23rd, 2014 at 12:24 pm
It’s worth noting that Mayo has taken the Clinton-era food pyramid and put fruit & vegetables on the bottom instead of grains and other carbohydrate sources–it’s subtle and not intended as far as I can tell to pick a fight with the USDA, but it is a significant departure from USDA teaching. And there is an article out today about how high carb intake may turbocharge colon cancer. Yikes!
“Four food groups” of the seventies wasn’t too bad, but yeah, the government has a nice history of nutritional advice that is really better suited for keeping soldiers fighting than for keeping civilians in fighting trim.
And regarding Seflores’ comment, I vividly remember looking at the nutritional information at McDonald’s when they started posting it back in the 1980s, and the scary thing is that the best thing for you on the menu in those days was the burgers. All the other stuff was loaded with fat and sugar.
July 23rd, 2014 at 12:28 pm
The whole darn thing sounds like a Simpsons or Family Guy episode.
July 23rd, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Mrs. Lovejoy “WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN”
July 25th, 2014 at 9:59 am
kinlaw: Didn’t you know that this program is not intended to target kids? They get all their meals at school and in the park …