{"id":149,"date":"2003-09-22T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:38:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T20:38:50","slug":"as-a-quick-aside-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/as-a-quick-aside-this\/","title":{"rendered":"As a quick aside, this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a quick aside, this is still percolating along, although I heard about it quite a while ago.  Some guy is <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/us\/DailyNews\/fatsuit020725.html\">suing most of the major fast food chains<\/a> because they didn&#8217;t tell him their food is fattening.<\/p>\n<p>I mean come on.<\/p>\n<p>Best quotes from the article though : &#8220;To win his suit he has to convince a jury or a judge that people are too stupid to feed themselves or their children. If people are so stupid, should they be allowed to vote or go to work in the morning?&#8221;  I think this has merit, in some cases.  You do have to wonder about some folks sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Also:  &#8220;Another class action law suit claims that the makers of the corn and rice puff snack food &#8220;Pirates&#8217; Booty&#8221; under-represented its fat content by more than 340 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s see, hmm.  This bag of salted, crunchy, oral fixation pleasers is not as good for me as a shovel-full of barley?  Somebody call the cops!  Do you really need to be told that anything that comes from a greasy plastic bag isn&#8217;t exactly good for you?<\/p>\n<p>Ahh, god bless America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a quick aside, this is still percolating along, although I heard about it quite a while ago. Some guy is suing most of the major fast food chains because they didn&#8217;t tell him their food is fattening. I mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/as-a-quick-aside-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}