Fish and chips with a knife and a fork?

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Council killjoys want to ban chip shop punters from eating with their fingers.

Chiefs at Liverpool City Council came up with the bonkers idea, which has been slammed as "health and safety gone mad" by locals.

But 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 - known as pavement cafes.

Any new business bidding for a pavement cafe licence will now be ordered to serve food on plates with cutlery, rather than in paper bags or polystyrene trays.

The move will mainly affect fast food outlets, chippies, kebab houses............

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/liverpool-council-ban-people-eating-3274950
 
Sledgehammer to crack a nut again.......

They do have bins in Liverpool don't they?........ or are too many dipping into the bins there still?...
 
The worst thing about these crazy new laws they keep bringing out is that someone gets paid for dreaming them up.Now they won't only have a bag of chips to pick up there will also be a plate and a knife and fork.Saying that though being Liverpool they will empty wasted food on the floor and nick the cutlery.
 
The problem is clearly a real one but rather than increasing running costs for local businesses why not make them put their own bins out and then fine the crap out of those that litter. Surely this is the basis of the zero tolerance we here so much about, address the small issue and the bigger issues either don't develop or stand out so clearly that people are less likely to perpetrate and when they do will be easier to spot/catch. I'm not suggesting that stopping littering will solve all crime issues but there has to be a starting point and surely this should always be where the low hanging fruit are.
 
They don't think these things through do they? Village I live in has a reasonable road running through it which had a 40 mph speed limit. But a significant number of people didn't stick to the limit. Annoying but still okayish as there are very few accidents. 1 a year would be pushing it. So instead of targeting the people speeding they have dropped the speed limit down to 30 mph. Guess what the speeders still speed as they did before. The rest of us drive along at a speed which on that road feels like you are not moving.

Eating with forks won't stop the litterers!
 
gator - 24/3/2014 11:54

The worst thing about these crazy new laws they keep bringing out is that someone gets paid for dreaming them up.
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I'll have you know it took me a week to think of that! :14:
 
It looks like Holte has already done my joke, as I imagine for some it would be the first time they used a fork.

Which will end up on the floor as well and this can't possibly be adopted because a fork has sharp edges so is a health and safety nightmare.

Wood, assuming they can't be trusted with plastic, also takes ages to break down so the liberal greenies will up in arms as it's a sustainability problem.

Ultimately the person who thought of this should do us all a favour and leave the planet as they have caused more problems than existed to begin with.

With that said, for some youngsters I guess chip oil, salt and vinegar is probably a lubricant, and we don't want to encourage them, so at least the inventors heart was in the right place.
 
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