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Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of psychosis has taken hold

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Speaker 1: of the bureaucrats at Health New Zealand, but you want

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Speaker 1: to see these rules that they've put out about the

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Speaker 1: food and what food is allowed and what food is

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Speaker 1: banned from their hospital cafeterias. It is ridiculously, ridiculously prescriptive.

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Speaker 1: So what they've done is they put out because they

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Speaker 1: like wasting their time on nonsense, They've put out their

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Speaker 1: new National Food and Drink Policy, and it's divided food

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Speaker 1: into three categories. You've got the green category that's the

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Speaker 1: good stuff. You got the Amber category that's a bit

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Speaker 1: naughty but okay, and you've got the red category and

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Speaker 1: that's banned. So what you are allowed to eat when

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Speaker 1: you go to the hospital cafeteria is chicken, but without

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Speaker 1: the skin on, so that you're basically left with the saddest,

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Speaker 1: driest chicken breast known to man. Yum, enjoy yourself. Beef

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Speaker 1: and pork that is allowed, but the staff have to

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Speaker 1: trim the visible fat off and they have to drain

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Speaker 1: the fatty drippings, which completely ignores the modern research that

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Speaker 1: show is actually meat fat is not that bad for you,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you need it. You are allowed to have

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Speaker 1: a kish, but it must have no crust. You are

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Speaker 1: allowed a vegetable slice or an egg cup, but they

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Speaker 1: must contain vegetables. A pie is okay, but only if

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Speaker 1: it's smaller than two hundred and ten grams, and only

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Speaker 1: if it has a potato top. What I've just described

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Speaker 1: to you is basically the green category. That is the

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Speaker 1: only food that they are allowed to display to us.

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Speaker 1: Everything else must not be within your eye sight, because

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Speaker 1: God only knows what's going to happen if you clap

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Speaker 1: your eyes on a muffin. The green category must make

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Speaker 1: up fifty five percent of the food at the hospital cafeteria.

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Speaker 1: Amber foods things you're allowed to eat but not allowed

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Speaker 1: to see include things like muffins and loaves and slices.

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Speaker 1: They must all be under one hundred and twenty grams.

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Speaker 1: Savory pies must be under two hundred and ten grams.

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Speaker 1: Not on display, nacho chips, white bread, dough boys, wraps,

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Speaker 1: and pizza bases. They are allowed to have icing on

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Speaker 1: the sweeter things, but they're only allowed to have very

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Speaker 1: little bit of icing, not a lot. Red food. This

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Speaker 1: is food that is recommended to be banned. Includes marshmallows

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Speaker 1: in your hot chocolate, thick icing, chocolate covered food, food

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Speaker 1: containing confectionery like Rocky Roads, lolly slices, pebbles, wann Tons

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Speaker 1: or that's not actually got lollies in it though, but

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Speaker 1: it also includes wan Tons, money bags, spring rolls, commercially

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Speaker 1: flavored rice, pasta, noodles, and deep fried items. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what this tells you about health New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna guess that they've either lost the plot

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Speaker 1: or whoever made these rules has decided to run the

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Speaker 1: cafeteria in the spirit of a communist dictatorship, where adults

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Speaker 1: must have every aspect of their lives controlled for them.

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Speaker 1: The fact that we are adults and can decide for

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Speaker 1: ourselves what we should or should not eat is clearly

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Speaker 1: not been factored into this equation. Some of us actually

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Speaker 1: enjoyed to have the fat on the meat very much.

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Speaker 1: Some of us it's like to eat the skin on

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Speaker 1: our chicken. Hospitals. Do I need to remind you a

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Speaker 1: grim going to the cafeteria to buy a treat for

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Speaker 1: yourself or perhaps your dying loved one. Maybe the only

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Speaker 1: thing that that person has in the day that brings

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Speaker 1: them a little bit of joy. Now. The thing is

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Speaker 1: Health New Zealand can go ahead with this if they

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Speaker 1: want to. It's their cafeteria after all. Problem with their

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Speaker 1: little dictatorship plan is they only control their tiny little

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Speaker 1: communist state. They do not control the gigantic capitalist market

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Speaker 1: outside of it. So I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 1: as an adult who can decide for myself, I suspect

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Speaker 1: I will be bringing in my brioche, dripping in gigantic

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Speaker 1: slabs of icing and just eating it on their premises.

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