DEBATE: Should eating fish and chips with your fingers be banned in Lincolnshire?
| Posted: March 24, 2014
Liverpool City Council want to ban people eating fish and chips with their fingers.
The idea has been slammed by locals as health and safety gone mad but do you think it is a good idea?
Nick Small, Liverpool council's enterprise chief said the move was intended to tackle city centre littering.
He told the Liverpool Sunday Echo: "We don’t want people buying chips, eating them outside and then dropping their litter.”
The new rules will apply to city centre businesses with outdoor seating areas and any new business will be forced to serve food on plates with cutlery instead of in a paper bag or polystyrene tray.
The move will mainly affect fast food outlets, chippies, kebab houses and takeaways but the council cannot go back and review businesses that already have a licence.
So do you think this would be a good or bad move for Lincolnshire? Vote in our poll to the bottom right of this article and let us know why in the comments below.
13 comments
Skeg Vegas will become a ghost town if this ever came in. Chip Alley would be boarded up. I jest, but is this Britain or North Korea?
The old way of fish, chips and scraps open on a sheet of grease proof paper then on newspaper were the days when it was a good cheap supper although the cost of fish and potatoes has shot up and now further servivg costs is not supporting the business. I think you could of found a better looking tray of fish and chips.
A, Its going to put the price up to serve on a plate with cutlery. (madness). B, Folks are going to be bewildered by it all. (utter madness) C, Councillors have "invented the idea" to prevent litter, when people will open their packages in the street anyway. (total utter madness. What a waste of resources reporting this madness. Lincolnshire is the Fish N' Chip Capital. Leave it be!
Well this takes stupidity to a whole new level, if there is a litter issue perhaps more bins should be put in place. How insulting to peoples intelligence, should we ban crisp sales if they are found in the street or supermarket carrier bags if they are found blowing around. I personally trust that my customers will put their rubbish in the bin that we provide for them and in the very rare cases where we find them in the street we take enough pride in our job and have enough respect for our community to PICK IT UP and put it in the bin.
Or maybe Liverpool City council just need to place a few more bins in the areas, and maybe empty them more than twice a day. Some of these bins don't really hold a lot of rubbish/and or too narrow opening to place rubbish/ and or snap trap lids risk contamination with hands with someone else's mayo and lamb kebab.
Sack the morons immediately
I can never make my mind up about the decentralisation of power. No matter how utterly stupid the national government tries to be there's always some council somewhere that's determined to outdo them.
so that's ALL takeaways closed down, including the one where we regularly see their bags/cups littering the streets or bobbing along in the canal, etc.
If the people of Liverpool are stupid enough to allow this to be implemented, then they deserve all they get! It's time the residents of this country told our Councils/ Councillors just what we want and expect from them, and it doesn't include interference in our every day lives.
Take a note of these Councillors names. Remember them on Polling day. vote for : NONE OF THE ABOVE