Pizza vending machine plans withdrawn after obesity row

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  1. A pizza vending machine would be a lot healthier than all the sweet and chocolate ones they currently have.

  2. I saw one of these somewhere in Europe probably over 15 years ago. I thought it was a cool idea, wish I tried it

  3. I don’t think a pizza machine is going to cause obesity when there are 20 pizza outfits per square mile.

    I think the public reason here is probably unrelated to the real reason they don’t want it.

    Same reason as they fought OpenReach for planning permission for our fibre box. It’s “unsightly”.

  4. Instead of just making sugary stuff more expensive, they should make vegetables so cheap that buying unhealthy food would be seen as the equivalent of buying Kellogg’s Cornflakes.

  5. Imagine grabbing a pizza out of a vending machine after a night out on the slosh though.

    I wonder if it keeps them heated, or if it nukes them before serving.

    Either way, the governments of the world are bemoaning power waste and this would probably just end up being abused in some “entrepreneurial” JustEat scam.

    I’ll stick to mad Ali’s down the road with his £5.99 specials and free coke and shit chips. Cheapest unhealthiest cheese on the planet, plenty of Asda’s cheapo sauce, an aftertaste that is slightly spicey.

  6. We have this in Brighton by the station. I’ve used it twice drunk and spent both times convinced there is someone in there making that pizza.

  7. I’m 26 and struggle to keep weight on, why is everything minimal calorie and so expensive to eat. It’s so hard for me to reach 3000 daily, especially if you want to exercise. BS

  8. How is this worse than a regular pizza shop, it’s not like pizza workers police consumption? “You’re too fat, no pizza for you”.

  9. If it’s not this, it’ll be something else. Most obese people are like that for a reason, and they’ll overeat no matter what.

  10. Because the people who would have gotten a pizza from the vending machine are now going to go get some couscous and humus from the local vegan cafe instead …

  11. Other countries like Japan have pizza vending machine and they don’t seem to be suffering from an obesity problem. Seriously outside of sumo wrestlers how many obese Japanese people do you actually see?

  12. >Nine people objected to the planning application submitted by Portsmouth City Council for the D-Day Story car park, including Southampton GP Karen Malone, who believed the scheme was ‘promoting the mindset that ultra-processed food is healthy’.

    Italians are much healthier than us and they eat pizza. Shut up you berk. GPs have been giving out nutritional advice for decades and people keep getting fatter.

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