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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on September 29, 2011, 06:43:30 PM

Title: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: rcjordan on September 29, 2011, 06:43:30 PM
On October 1, a new 'fat tax' comes into effect and retailers say Danish consumers are going to feel the pinch.

"There will be rather significant price increases on some products that, without a doubt, buyers are going to notice,"


http://www.cphpost.dk/component/content/52175.html?task=view

Damn, Vikings, we're almost in revolt over tobacco and gasoline taxes here. If they taxed fatty foods there'd be greasy blood in the streets!
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: dogboy on September 29, 2011, 07:45:40 PM
...and I thought Greece was bad.
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: Rumbas on September 29, 2011, 08:57:17 PM
Hehehe, not going down well here. It's of kind of we don't like anybody to tell us what to eat.. damn socialists just won the election and wants to force comrade Napoleon on us.
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: Brad on September 29, 2011, 09:11:56 PM
In the US, people would be setting up illegal deep fryers up in the hollers protected by fat guys with guns.
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: rcjordan on September 30, 2011, 01:38:34 AM
>damn socialists

Der er kommunister i lysthuset!
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: Rumbas on September 30, 2011, 09:28:57 AM
Hahahahaha! Nice one RC.
Title: Re: So there goes my plan to open a Waffle House franchise in Denmark
Post by: grnidone on October 03, 2011, 06:51:40 PM
>In the US, people would be setting up illegal deep fryers up in the hollers protected by fat guys with guns.

The entire South would be in an uproar.