The Danish Superior Beings are considering dropping the Fat Tax they imposed on all those foods they don’t think their people are intelligent enough to eat without gorging themselves.
Why? Have they at last realised that they are being arrogant little shits in telling other people how to live their lives? Not a bit of it. It’s the money.
These unions, and other groups in Denmark, claim the sat fat tax is driving Danish consumers over the border to buy fatty products more cheaply in Germany, Holland or Sweden. This is threatening retail and manufacturing jobs, they say.
“The Danish Agriculture and Food Council says it expects the fat tax to cost Denmark 1,300 jobs in the next three years,” said an NNF spokesman.
Well, duh. If people are already having to cross the border to avoid being ripped off on booze and tobacco, why wouldn’t they do all their food shopping while there and avoid being ripped off on that too? It’s not as if it means making a special trip, not if they’re going there anyway.
As for costing jobs, well double duh. Didn’t these unions notice what happens with every new smoking control measure? Pubs, clubs, restaurants. All those employed in the cigarette vending machine industry and soon, all those employed in the packet-printing industry. Every one of these meddling little schemes costs jobs. Every one of them. Nobody seems to have minded so far, in fact I doubt anyone in Wastemonster has even noticed.
So the Danish Righteous now plan to drop the fat tax that was about helping people live healthier lives, and not at all about stealing more money for their government to piss away on vanity projects and idiotic schemes.
However, the Danish government is expected to agree to the move and is understood to be formulating plans to recoup the money by increasing income tax.
It was never about health. None of it. In any country, anywhere, ever. It is, was and always will be about stealing money from the proles to fund the lavish lifestyles of the arrogant mindless cretins in power.
In case anyone is still in doubt, this is what will happen if they don’t go ahead with minimum pricing and what will happen on a huge scale if they ban tobacco. IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. Specifically, yours. They work out how much of your money they’ll get if they impose this tax, then when they don’t impose the tax, they have to ‘recoup the money they’ve lost’ through income tax, while hoping you won’t notice they didn’t have the money in the first place.
The proles still think their governments actually care about them. Ha ha ha ha ha. You exist to work hard and give your money to idle wasters who will beat you up if you don’t hand it over. You are the little kid in the playground giving your dinner money to the bully and that is all you will ever be, prole.
Winston Smith was wrong. There is no hope in the proles, and no hope for them. Let them go. Let them stew in the Hell they voted for.
Save yourself. Nobody else will.
There’s really only one way to deal with the modern world. Sit back, light up, pour yourself a drink and watch it burn.
All these taxes are probably to make up for losing tobacco taxes due to the bans and soon to be plain packs driving everyone to the black market. When they fiddle with alcohol and drive all that underground, then with fat taxes they create an black market for meat and lard, then they will have to make it up somewhere else. I notice how high the taxes are on the cell phone bill, 20% is all tax of one sort or another, as is a large chunk of the land-line phone tax – and I’m betting that soon worldwide carbon tax, imposed on everyone, will be to make up for lost tobacco and liquor taxes. So essentially, eventually, all the anti-smokers will have to pay higher and higher prices to make up for all the taxes on the things they banned and pushed into the black market just like they have to pay higher and higher prices in pubs, cafes and restaurants to make up for the loss of 20%+ of the regular trade driven off by smoking bans. Serves them right too, only sad part is they’ll never understand it. They’ll just hush up and pay their high prices and high taxes thinking it’s all “for the good” and “saving the planet” – like good littlle anti-smoking pro-green-duped drones do.
I will pay less taxes because I have dropped back to earning only as much as I need – which isn’t much – while the antis ramp up their consumption, earnings and tax.
It will fall apart, that is inevitable, and all the comfort zombies can watch me not care. I have a freezer and garage full of the banned things and I don’t need guns because the drones don’t have them either. I wonder how hard they have practised throwing a six-inch nail?
XX I wonder how hard they have practised throwing a six-inch nail? XX
Na, last time they tried that, they ended up nailing a Jewish bastard to a dodd of wood in some desert region. And you know what trouble THAT has caused since.
If Jesus came back, we’d nail him to an MDF cross from Ikea this time.
Aye. And it would be just as wobbly as my book shelves.
I’ve just tried making my own bacon for the first time, it’s a bit of a faff, but the result was better than shop bought with no water in the pan. It’s about 1/3 the price of the supermarket too. Since I was smoking stuff anyway, I chucked a bit of salmon on to boot, and it turns out that the home made version is about 1/3 the price and at least as good.
Apart from salt, all it took was a cold smoke source for the bbq. I had to buy mine specially.
I suppose they could try taxing the raw ingredients but there’s pork and salmon farms in my area, and in any case it’s not really very likely that everyone is going to start doing their own, because it needs a bit of patience….
I’ve never understood how they manage to get so much water in the damn supermarket bacon, every time I fry some up shit splashes everywhere.
I’m told that the way they make bacon these days is to take a raw belly of pork and inject it with brine using a machine with a load of hollow needles. It’s then sliced and shipped.
Put a kilo of pork in and you get rather more than a kilo of bacon out, which can be sold very profitably at bacon prices, even though what you are actually selling is pork with added water. I imagine the process is adjustable and you can add more or less water depending on how much you think you can get away with. Someone recently told me that it was a Danish idea oddly enough – I don’t know if that’s true.
Some brands take this further than others, and I’d given up on all but one until a supermarket. About a month ago, they too started taking it to extremes and I decided to have a go myself. It turns out to be almost trivially easy, even if you go as far as smoking it. Takes about a week and a half.
The results were sufficiently encouraging that I’ve started planning a larger smoker.
There is a legal limit to how much water can be added to meat. So, naturally, every meat producer now ensures they add up to the limit, whether it was necessary or not. Thanks, EU.
Aye laddie! And that is why a “minimum wage” does not work. Because every bastard takes it to mean the MAXIMUM wage.
Try finding the same job, at anything more or less 10 Pfennig difference.
The other part of minimum wage is – why would a shop pay me to stack shelves when they can get a 16-year-old to do the same job cheaper?
once you get over 21, minimum wage jobs are no longer open to you.
Andy
I have started hot smoking bacon with hickory chips, but I buy it ready cured from the butcher, but the butcher can’t supply me with unsmoked streaky, so I’d very much appreciate some tips about starting from scratch.
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That’ll be Pork scratchings you are after then.
Talking of which. When they first came on the market, they were bloody WONDERFULL! Like the srapings from your Granny best frying pan, and a dentists nightmare.
THEN they went all fluffy and puffy.
Now, I doubt you can even buy them, unless it ios from a “man in a white van.”
Then, I was lucky enough to live and work for a while on a pig farm in West Lothian. We killed, prepared and cooked all our own. What we could not eat, was sent to market.
I loved pork scratchings, but you are quite right about the dentistry.
Pork scratchings are one pleasure I did give up.
Best pork scratchings are from roast pork. Cut most (not all) of the fat off the skin and put it back in the oven. When crisp, salt it.
I used the recipe here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/nov/11/recipes.pork. There’s also a recipe in the river cottage ‘meat’ book using a kilo of salt and optional salpetre but you have be careful with salpetre, it gives a bacon taste and colour, and helps with food safety, but it is very poisonous. I should think our host could tell us how poisonous and why.
After 5 days you have very salty green bacon. Soak for 2 hours in water, change the water and soak for another hour. Now hang it up to dry, wrapped in muslin for 3 days. the muslin keeps the flies off.
Finally I smoked the bacon for 10 hours in the bbq using a ProQ cold smoke generator from Amazon. I’ve got about 2 kilos of bacon for £10 of pork. Doesn’t shrink in the pan and tastes just like bacon. I’ve been eating it and using it in recipes all week – we’ve got about 1.8kg left.
Thank you, Andy, I like the sound of the Guardian recipe, I only want to make small amounts and after they have been hot-smoked they would be sliced and flat frozen so keeping is not a problem.
You’re so right. Save yourself. Its gone too far now. No-one will help you.
Me, I trained in a profession – university, post graduate study, years of training on the job before qualifying. Ended up with my own firm, employed people, paid a shit load of taxes, worked bloody hard for 20+ years. I used to be really active and interested in politics and what was happening in our country and elsewhere. Now I don’t give a fuck. I was a drone – establishment “professional” class, lots of cash, lots of tax, Maldives, America, anywhere for holidays, but nothing but work, work, work, tax, tax, tax. All the tax I have ever paid has been pissed away by the state and more – I fully expect that my wife’s teacher’s pension wont be paid and I’ll be asked to work to 75 before the government give me £100 per week for all the NI I’ve paid. No time with the kids, the wife, but work like a twat, for most 2 incomes just to scrape by, collect VAT for the tax man, die at your desk. And when you have that heart attack – if you don’t die there and then they’ll finish you off in the NHS, whilst some righteous doctor or nurse will treat you with contempt because you smoked. (My nan died in hospital at 73 from throat cancer over 20 years ago – 40-60 a day for over 50 years. The hospital staff were so kind to her. Nowadays the propaganda nourished twenty something nurses would treat her like shit.)
Sick to death of the taxes, the state, local authority empire building, energy costs, righteous tossers telling me I must do this or that because I’m so dumb I cant be trusted to do or think anything, etc. etc., This country has morphed in my adult life from what it was to what it is today. Its dying.
Now? I’m 47. I’ve had enough. I’m nearly at the end of selling everything I’ve built up in the last 15 years and I’m moving to a small cottage in the country – big garden for growing veg and baccy. Arse end of nowhere. I’ll pay cash – no mortgage. Wood burners throughout with enough land to get my own wood sorted within 7-8 years. Some small holding type livestock. I’ll get a shotgun licence and a shotgun and any state drone who visits will be greeted with hostility. All I care about now is myself and my kids. The rest of the politicos, “elites”, media chatterers, righteous, religious, quango, fakeocracy, charity, BMA, climate science, wankers can go fuck themselves. I’ll get a little job, cash in hand preferably, and the rest can go to hell whilst I sit in my no TV cosy sitting room playing my accordion, smoking, and getting pissed until I die,
But I’ll still read this blog
@BB. Nice rant, couldn’t agree more! Just wish i was 49 not 59. Harvesting my baccy today, going to try junican’s towel-wrapping-airing cupboard drying/curing. Wish me luck, as it taken a lot of fiddling/care to keep the slug buggers at bay and nurse these plants throughout a terrible first attempt summer
XX going to try junican’s towel-wrapping-airing cupboard drying/curing. XX
It works brilliantly for other types of…… “tobacco” too.