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Jul 17 2025 07:25pm
They still have some similar products but like a vending machine you can get sweet tea but that sweet tea is not even close to your average ice tea in America that has the same level of sugar as any can of pop.

Also their fast food options or grab and go options are just so vast. Go to a gas station or 7/11 here in north American it's like egg salad, hot dogs, chips and pop.

Meanwhile you go to a 7 elevan in Japan and you have good options and lots of them.

There's also an expectation that you finish your food. North America you go to a chain and you see so much waste on plates because serving sizes are massive.


The gas station sushi was delicious over there. Over here, yikes.

Couldn't understand the mayonnaise on pizza stuff though.
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Jul 17 2025 07:28pm
The gas station sushi was delicious over there. Over here, yikes.

Couldn't understand the mayonnaise on pizza stuff though.


Kewpie mayo is put on lots of things. Wife's Japanese.

I didn't understand it either but it's pretty good on quite a few things.
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Jul 17 2025 07:29pm
Its actually shockingly simple how such a program could be implemented

Everyone must attend an annual physical exam. If you miss your slot and don't rebook, you get the maximum tax.

If you're unhealthy (a tax burden), you get taxed according to the severity to a maximum. If you get healthier on your next checkup, you get an additional bonus refund.

If you're healthy (a subsidizer), you get a refund according to your level of health. If you get unhealthier on your next checkup, you get an additional penalty tax.

One of the first principles of economics is that people respond to incentives and disincentives, carrots and sticks. Such a program would clean up the nation significantly.

The problem is that most people are fat slobs and they vote, which means this will never happen so long as we live in a liberal democracy. So continues the race to the bottom unless this system is radically changed.


It's crazy to think how effective that would be and how so many people like myself would finally benefit and the fat fucks would finally have to eat something other then a cheeseburger.

How can any rational tax payer not see this as like the most fair shot at a fair tax.

Imagine being a 350lb person and saying to yourself, "Everyone should take care of me because I'm fat".

This is the whole "America is so privileged that people are proud to be fat".
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Jul 17 2025 07:30pm
I'm good with absolutely taxing junk and processed foods to the point it borderline becomes prohibitive and spinning that money into subsidies on raw ingredients / unprocessed foods. Treat junk food like cigarettes or alcohol here in Canada and add huge tax to it.


The alcohol tax here is probably the only reason that we're doing better than America on this front. That and higher cost of living I suppose. Alcohol is probably the worst culprit
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Jul 17 2025 07:36pm
It's crazy to think how effective that would be and how so many people like myself would finally benefit and the fat fucks would finally have to eat something other then a cheeseburger.

How can any rational tax payer not see this as like the most fair shot at a fair tax.

Imagine being a 350lb person and saying to yourself, "Everyone should take care of me because I'm fat".

This is the whole "America is so privileged that people are proud to be fat".


It's straight up criminal for someone who makes the necessary sacrifices in their life to be healthy subsidize the exorbitant healthcare costs of people who sacrifice nothing and wallow around in their gluttony and filth.

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It's straight up criminal for someone who makes the necessary sacrifices in their life to be healthy subsidize the exorbitant healthcare costs of people who sacrifice nothing and wallow around in their gluttony and filth.


Ya I've started to come around to this more and more as I've seen the dredge it creates on EVERYONE.

I'm Scandinavian but my associations with the philosophical society I'm a part of put me around many Hindus. No Hindu is FAT. EVER. It is shameful. It is disrespectful.

They get visibly frustrated when they see fat people because they come from villages where people couldn't get a grain of rice and were starving.

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Ya I've started to come around to this more and more as I've seen the dredge it creates on EVERYONE.

I'm Scandinavian but my associations with the philosophical society I'm a part of put me around many Hindus. No Hindu is FAT. EVER. It is shameful. It is disrespectful.

They get visibly frustrated when they see fat people because they come from villages where people couldn't get a grain of rice and were starving.


I love actual Hindus, they're great people and naturally have great habits. My old coworker was a practicing Hindu and just a lovely woman and mother. Its too bad that most Indians aren't actually Hindu and haven't read anything, I guess thats why the caste system is still prevalent there, it's a true separation of the virtuous from the rabble

The overeating is literally a crime against your community. The hilarious thing is that they claim it's more expensive to eat less.. how do they square that circle? These fats would save hundreds of dollars a month
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Jul 17 2025 08:11pm


Coke with pure cane sugar tastes better than Coke with high fructose corn syrup. ^^
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I love actual Hindus, they're great people and naturally have great habits. My old coworker was a practicing Hindu and just a lovely woman and mother. Its too bad that most Indians aren't actually Hindu and haven't read anything, I guess thats why the caste system is still prevalent there, it's a true separation of the virtuous from the rabble

The overeating is literally a crime against your community. The hilarious thing is that they claim it's more expensive to eat less.. how do they square that circle? These fats would save hundreds of dollars a month


Haha ya I have the lucky privilege of knowing mostly "Brahmins" which are the high caste literate Hindus who grew up in a normal neighborhood and had the opportunity to go to college(all others are of the low slave like class and are for the most part illiterate)

From what I've seen in Canada it seems like India started shipping them their "slave class muslim hindus" who tend to be the most destructive. It's funny how many Hindus I'm around are devout Christians and how they'll get upset when Muslim Hindus do dumb shit. They will call them "the worst INDIANS" because muslims have constantly genocided their way through Buddhist/Christians/Sikhs/Hindus in India.

Like I've said and it's half praise half insult an Indian if given the chance will work for a penny an hour. not eat for two weeks. live off a bottle of water under a bridge and be happier then some dude in a Lamborghini just because he's standing in America.

I wish more Amerians could see the joy some Indians get when they first come to America. They don't piss on it or ask for free handouts like the Middle Easterners and other foreigners. They literally lived in a real shit hole with shit flowing down the street and now their sitting homeless in the bronx, la, miami, chicago, toronto, vancouver. Life's good lol
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Jul 17 2025 08:54pm
Coke with pure cane sugar tastes better than Coke with high fructose corn syrup. ^^


The exact opposite you would want for already an incredibly obese country struggling with addiction to sweet drinks.

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