Jun 20 2007
Go to work on the nanny state
I hear on the radio that the slogan "Go to work on an egg" has been banned from the airwaves, as such advice does not recommend a balanced diet!
It goes to show how stupid some bans can be, as it has given the old slogan far more attention than if the banners had allowed it to be broadcast again.
As someone who does not usually go to work on an egg, I do question this idea of a "Balanced diet". Is it??unbalanced to always have toast in the morning, to always drink tea, or to hit the cornflakes every day? If it is, then most people have unbalanced diets.
I say, go to work on an egg if you like them. And let’s all go to work on sorting out the nonsense of so many prescriptive rules about what people can and cannot say.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
JR
Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children (Hardcover)
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Eggs are brilliant, I regularly eat eggs. In fact the other morning I had fried and scrambled egg with 2 sausages, 2 rashers of bacon and black pudding in the staff canteen before starting work.
A plateful of all the nutrition you need to get you through the day if you ask me. Wash it down with a cup of tea then smoke a fag or two and you’re ready to go.
Creeping regulation has already removed our smoking shelter, are they going to come to where I work and try to stop me eating eggs next? Once they’ve finished persecuting smokers, drinkers will be next, then fat people.
I’m one of these people that eats and drinks whatever I want without changing my skinny frame. However I’m making a mental note of all the fat people at work who gloat about the smoking ban so that I can grass them up to the food police for eating fry-ups and chips in the canteen in a few years time.