£14k Tuck Shop kid

[Oakey]

No thread on the promising young footballer 'entrepreneur' who has made £14k selling junk food and sweets to fellow pupils?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/11245356/Scho...

He's currently on the news and his parents, especially his father, are a pair of right fat s. You'd think they'd be more sympathetic towards the schools attempts at a healthy eating policy.

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greygoose said:

Maybe he is selling his snacks to his mum and dad too?

That's how it starts, the first hit is always free

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Squawk1066 said:

You would think he has been dealing drugs with the amount of bad press this has been getting.

Good luck to him I say. Oh, 14k? That's a LOT of goodies.

Well considering we've just been told obesity is costing the taxpayer £47billion a year it's quite understandable.

He only makes money because the school chooses not to sell the same crap. I suppose we could go back to schools selling kids junk and let the country keep getting fatter?

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They have or have you failed to notice chocolate bars have gotten smaller?

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MrHorsepower said:

Really? Are the two that similar? I didn't realise that unhealthy eating could kill or otherwise endanger other people.

Well, there was that obese woman who crushed a two year old

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p1esk said:

I have not failed to notice.

Going back a year or two, Tesco used to sell a pack of 7 full sized Mars bars for £2.75, but occasionally they would do them at £2.00, and I would sometimes buy them at that price.

To begin with these full size Mars bars were 58 gm., but more recently I see they have shrunk to 51 gm. Is this a product size change by Mars, or a sneaky trick by Tesco?

Google suggests it's to keep chocolate bars under 250calories, Mars aren't the only ones to do this apparently.