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"Remember when it used to be at least affordable to speedrun yourself into an untimely grave through poor nutritional choices and/or prohibitive socioeconomic status?
Pepperidge Farm remembers. ^Pepperidge Farm was there.^
Why only for certain foods? This practice is misleading at best.
"Ministers argue the restrictions are an important step to tackle obesity โ and in particular childhood obesity."
buy it's still okay to sell unhealthy food? so this is the shit we're living in?
"Buy 2 get a 50% discount"
Price or multibuy promotions
First words of the article
Headline alone does beg the question though.
I do like the BBC and will click the link, though I admit to skimming and missing the first line. (Also not the person you replied to.) I just hate how it redirects .co.uk to .com based on my physical location. This is a UK thing but redirecting me to the US version of the site makes it seem like it's not a UK thing, silly as that may be. The article is mirrored, just let people read it on the .co.uk, since they had to load that page initially anyway.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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