/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The loss of actual dr pepper was fuckin' depressing. Ribena is rip too.

>>13711767
Yeah I never drink the UK Dr Pepper any more since it tastes weird now.

Luckily there’s shops around me that import the USA version and failing that I can order a crate off the internet. You honestly forget what it’s supposed to taste like if you drink the UK garbage for long enough.

>>13711756
that suxx. What can be done. I'm an American but i don't want that to happen.

>>13711817
Some of you guys have already taken advantage of the market gap and opened USA import food stores here, which see big success mostly in soda and cereal (the food dyes and flavours responsible for making froot loops are banned here, hence why we had pic related sad version that tasted like shit made with vegetable food dyes and low sugar).

Honestly just spread the word and continue being patriotic. I hope Americans don’t forget that they actually do have a lot of freedom, it’s not just a meme.

>>13711756
>be britbong
>have national healthcare
>certain foods in certain quantities cause massive health problems
>health problems are a public cost
>enact tax on those foods to pay for the cost of the health care
>stupid government!
You Bongs are really fucking dumb.

>>13711767
>>13711800

"actual" dr pepper ceased production in 2012 you dumb bongs

>>13711869
>except instead of a new tax that actually raises money for healthcare, those products just cease to exist

>>13711878
>those products just cease to exist
Thus eliminating the problem and decreasing healthcare costs.

Dumbass.

>>13711869
The issue isn’t the tax, it’s that the products ceased to exist on the market, in some cases entirely.

By the way, shit like this will never stop obesity. People wake up and eat 3000kcal full English breakfasts and then chug beer all day.

Subsidising healthy food is the way to go, not this prohibition level garbage.

>>13711756
You facking bongs need a third English civil war, hang-draw-quarter all the treasonous apes you elect to parliament and bring society back to Elizabethan decency

>>13711756
Oi mate you have a license to eat that food?

>>13711756
Based, we're taking back control, soon we'll be free of Eurocrats telling us what we can and can't do

>>13711869
>be American
>don't have illegal wage theft in the form of socialized healthcare
>have freedom

>>13711935
>illegal wage theft
>passed through the legal system

Libertarianism is a mental disorder

>>13711935
>don't have socialized medicine
First, you may want to look into this claim. While it's of course true that we don't have a de jure system akin to the Bongs, we most definitely have a de facto system. Medicare rules all payments. Every private insurer bases their provider payment on Medicare. Some pay slightly more, but it's always a function of what Medicare pays. Medicare's patient care rules (returning to the hospital in X days for the same problem, levels of physician visits, frequency of physician visits, etc.) are all dictated by Medicare and adopted by private insurance. We've managed to come up with a system where the government does the difficult work of care assessment and patient outcome research and then pass that knowledge on to private insurers who reap gargantuan profit. Yay America!
>have freedom
Go spend an uninsured night in the hospital. Enjoy your freedom to be in poverty for a while.