My mom never allowed soda either plus she is a GREAT cook. I'm not a picky eater because of her, and I can eat. One thing I loved was she would make any food I requested, I loved her burgers and thick homemade fries. McDonalds was like a once a month thing with my step siblings because they could not eat anything else. Their mum taught them bad bad eating.

I notice that so much with American kids. They don't know how to eat at all. It's yuck at everything, unless it's fast food and soda or juice ( which is soda anyways).

In this country if it's not bland health food or over sugared fast food good luck finding it. We don't have to go to both extremes.

You can't legislate people into being good parents.

Bloomberg wants to ban guns, and yet somehow he takes more flak for banning soda. Both are just reflections of the same fascist ideology.

This guy is spinning out of control.

And it's weird because he's in New Freaking York.

Maybe they all turned into pussies when Wall Street lost the championship to DC a few years ago.

"the smaller bottles will generate more revenue"
Citizens' convenience to induce Type 2 diabetes clashes with a business's freedom to increase revenues and - much more important - *profits*?
I like Mayor Mike.

Bloomberg needs to be dumped into the Hudson. That guys is slowly destroying the city I love so much that I won't even go back and visit.
Shame.

@Andre Friedmann : "I like Mayor Mike."

Why?

I notice that so much with American kids. They don't know how to eat at all. It's yuck at everything, unless it's fast food and soda or juice ( which is soda anyways).

I took a group of 21 year olds on a field trip last year (astronomical observing class). For most of them, anything other than reheating a Hot Pocket was too complicated. They were complaining that there wasn't enough food while I was making a great sandwich out of leftovers from dinner the night before.

(I also used the phrase "your Mom is not here!" when I came down from the telescope to find the students who weren't observing playing cards in a dirty kitchen. Lol. They were good kids but...I guess I was that young once, too.)

I guess this makes me a freak of some sort, because I never took my girls out for McD's or any of that; that was what they did once a week with their father. When he came and got them. I made dinner every night, usually meat and veggies, salad, sometimes pasta, sometimes a casserole, sometimes hot dogs and beans, but almost never fast food. Homemade tacos, with fresh shredded cheese and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. My girls are not picky eaters and they eat a large variety of food. They like a lot of different things, which is good. Of course we did the PB&J thing, pancakes, mac and cheese (homemade, though, with pieces of baked ham in it), and other stuff, but they don't overeat and when we did snacks while watching tv, it was usually small slices of cheese and cut up veggies, carrot, celery, and dip. (But peanut butter for the celery, yum!)

I have a cousin in college. With absent parents, she taught herself how to cook, and cook well. I am always impressed when I bring my children to her house. Chili, lasagna, and tortiere are all on her menu, and she really makes them well! She was taught from an early age she would have to fend for herself, and did so admirably. Suggesting Mc Donald's brings a look of "Eeeeeeeeew, Why??"

My children are 8 and 13, and pack their own lunches. While I do stock cookies, cakes, chips and the like in the house, they know that these are junk and will not put them in their lunch bags. They will wait till after they've eaten a healthy supper, then chow down on the crap. This doesn't concern me, because they've already eaten healthy foods all day, and only have so much room left in their little stomachs. Moderation people, all in moderation.

While parents do have a significant impact on their children's eating habits, and should teach them healthy eating, after a certain age it becomes redundant. They should be able to decide for themselves what is and is not healthy for them.

where is the NewYork restaurant association in all of this? They don't care that Bloomy is making their lives hard, by DICTATING what they can and cannot serve, and how? Oddly, it seems like if all the disparate groups that are having a problem with this cooperated, they could put some PR muscle behind getting Bloomy to stop, or at LEAST to expose the fact that people could vote AGAINST Bloomberg, since he's being a dic-tator, or was that Mr. Tater? Can we call you Dick?

the People's Commissar of Derangement and Insanity

"where is the NewYork restaurant association in all of this? "

They're continuing to hand over unmarked bills in brown paper bags just to keep their licenses - while Mayor Mike 'Insulin Spike' Bloomberg gets a kickback from the soda companies for driving up their revenue.

"where is the NewYork restaurant association in all of this? "

They're all cowering in fear of losing their liquor licenses. With good reason.

Given this is a governemnt regulation do you think it would be possible to write off the net cost increase on your state taxes?

lujlp, No. This is New York we're talking about. Cuomo needs the money.

Since the damage from the hurricane is all fixed, as are the schools, and New York City is safe from people falling on the subway tracks, or dying in hit and run accidents, or being attacked by cleavers in Chinatown, Bloomberg has to do something besides locking up baby formula.