What’s for Lunch? Not Sandwiches, Says Brit Gov’t

Posted by Baylen on Nov. 7, 2008

Restaurants already facing hard times because of the financial crisis have something else to worry about: a British-government funded nonprofit is urging workers not to dine out.

Now into the nation’s workplaces marches an even more interfering force - the packed lunch police.

A taxpayer-funded quango is trying to persuade workers not to buy a sandwich at midday.

Instead they are being told to raid the fridge every morning to make lunch from last night’s leftovers.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) claims that throwing food away rather than eating it costs the public £5billion a year.

That’s significantly less, no doubt, than wasteful government spending like that directed to WRAP costs the public. Not to mention that a consumer-chosen sandwich tastes a hell of a lot better than a load of unwanted recycled food shoved down the public’s throat by their own tax dollars. Just sayin’.

The Daily Mail has more here. WRAP spews crap here. Quangos explained here.

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