Will you eat the sprout or take a fine?

[GGizmo]

I was just reading this story from China about a new law that says you can be fined for leaving any food on your plate;

China to bring in law against food waste with fines for promoting overeating
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ood-waste-with-fines-for-promoting-overeating

China drafts law to fine restaurant diners who can't finish their meals to teach citizens not to waste food
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Restaurant-diners-finish-meals-set-fined.html

So keeping on the Christmas theme, if you had 3 sprouts left on your plate would you eat them or risk a fine?

 

[Lysander]

On the one hand I can see that food waste is bad, but on the other this is another example of China micromanaging its citizens in an authoritarian way. Where it goes from here is only downhill.

I feel sorry for the Chinese.

 

[Captain]

This happens over here and it’s a good way to avoid waste.

My local Chinese buffet charge £2.50 for every plate of food that gets left untouched.

Too many people fill their plate and then barely touch anything on it.

 

[Will Gill]

I love sprouts, nom nom

 

[Thekwango]

So keeping on the Christmas theme, if you had 3 sprouts left on your plate would you eat them or risk a fine?

Risk a fine? I’d risk prison by murdering the disgusting brute that put those foul things on my plate.

 

[Hakanese]

Depends on how much the fine is.. if it's enough to stop my next upgrade? Smother in ketchup and hope tell myself the waterblock is worth it

 

[Quartz]

I thought that in China the polite way of saying you'd had your fill was to leave something on your plate.

 

[arknor]

I love sprouts, fry them with fine beans and bacon, add some white wine towards the end for flavour
I'll eat the whole buffet

 

[Pyr0m@nI@]{]

I'd eat the sprouts, but I like them anyway.

 

[vanandjuanunited]

Sprouts wouldn't have been left til last

 

[Freakbro]

I love sprouts, nom nom

Risk a fine? I’d risk prison by murdering the disgusting brute that put those foul things on my plate.

And interestingly the difference between liking or loathing them looks like it's down to a specific gene and whether you produce a protein to detect phenylthiocarbamide, a chemical that gives a very bitter taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene

 

[Mobius 1]

Sprouts are grim. I’ll pay a fine.

 

[MooMoo444]

I think most people hate sprouts because their parents boiled the living **** out of them and gave them enough salt to defrost the south pole.

They're nice when they have a bit of crunch.

 

[Will Gill]

And interestingly the difference between liking or loathing them looks like it's down to a specific gene and whether you produce a protein to detect phenylthiocarbamide, a chemical that gives a very bitter taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene

How odd, I used to find them horribly bitter, maybe as I'm an old fart now I no longer produce proteins like I used to

 

[Freakbro]

How odd, I used to find them horribly bitter, maybe as I'm an old fart now I no longer produce proteins like I used to

On the bright side you can now enjoy sprouts!

 

[Will Gill]

On the bright side you can now enjoy sprouts!

Indeed, I think on balance, I'm happier this way

 

[COYS]

If the idea is not to take food that you can't/won't eat then why would they be on my plate to begin with?

 

[jpaul]

How odd, I used to find them horribly bitter

they're now growing sweeter varieties (like strawberries) so the ground moved ..... whether they should now be classified as sweets ?

And interestingly the difference between liking or loathing them looks like it's down to a specific gene

is that more prevalent amongst youngsters now ? I wonder if it's like allergies too, where, if youngsters were not fed them when young, they grow up without the palette.
The decline of drinking bitter maybe related - sugar addiction


Chinese were reporting earlier this week/bbc that they have 50% obesity, and some large % of the population are very sedantery, worse than uk ?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'll eat the sprout. I don't mind them.

 

[Brizzles]

now I no longer produce proteins like I used to

Marriage does that