newyorkguy
Penultimate Amazing
And then decided he could tell other people how to micromanage their lives, even how much soda they could drink...
Nope. I think he did the right thing. Kind of.
Fast food places in New York started serving super-size soft drinks with the value meals, I too asked them, why do I have to have a super-sized drink? They said because, "It comes with the meal." Okay. So you take your kids to Taco Bell buy them combo meals to save a few bucks and they all get 42-ounce super-sized drinks. Bloomberg forced them to stop doing that.
Remember when you were a kid. When Dad bought you a hot dog? And a can of soda. What would Dad have said if you asked, Could I have a quart of soda, too?
Bloomberg's position was, "These drinks are unhealthy to begin with. You serve a kid a super-sized soda he wants to drink the whole thing. Twenty years from now society may be paying to cover part of his medical expenses."
IMO serving an eight-year-old a 42-ounce soda should be misdemeanor-child endangerment.