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by snoot 1295 days ago
It would be hard to ban a national dish.
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Won't somebody please think of the children??
It's too bad you're getting downvoted. This is an obvious and appropriate Simpsons' quote
What is wrong with my kid eating curry?
It's a joke about how the UK government pushes incredibly authoritarian laws using the safety of children as a trojan horse.
Turns out just about everybody, all around the world, loves authoritarian laws when they agree with the alleged goal, or when the psychological propaganda worked on them. If it's not the children, it's grandma, or someone else.

Turns out there are a small number of actual anti-authoritarians who have always been consistent. And then there are countless hangers-on who proclaim to be an anti-authoritarian resistance when it suits them. It's funny, the fact people co-opt it shows that they see it as a noble and worthy ideology, yet it's still one they're happy to discard the minute some talking head put on TV by a corporation tells them to be outraged.

I'd love to be put in contact with some of these true Scotsmen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H anti-authoritarians. I need staunch moral support in my tireless, lonely fight against the soulless minions of orthodoxy who blithely kowtow to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 [0]. My perfectly fine produce deserves the embrace of the free market; it isn't up to some pencil-pusher in Washington to have the final say in how much lead there is in a tomato, it's between God, Man, and the Invisible Hand.

Are you one of the countless hangers-on who proclaim to be an anti-authoritarian resistance when it suits them?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act

Non-authoritarian solution is to have certification. It will be up to consumer to buy only food certified by PureFood.
Phew, well I'm glad somebody is thinking of the children. Thank you for your service :) Sorry if I hit a nerve.
Oh such a good joke!!!! Thanks for showing me the twist. I remember the funny safety conversations at tennis matches after a few drops of rain.