The Big Gulp is triumphant.
New York City’s plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants and other eateries was an illegal overreach of executive power, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday, upholding a lower court decision in March that struck down the law.
The law, which would have prohibited those businesses from selling sodas and other sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces, “violated the state principle of separation of powers,” the First Department of the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division said in a unanimous decision.
So we’re free to drink sodas the size of a small child. Unfortunately, we are still being forced to pay for the destruction actual small children. Hey, freedom’s taking baby steps. Pardon the pun.
July 30, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Why doesn't our 7-11 sell those????
July 31, 2013 at 1:19 am
Yippie!
July 31, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Back in the day when my kids were little. When you only had two quarters to rub together. I would buy one "big gulp" for a treat and share it among the kids and their cousins with the water cups I brought. Even if it was only a sip, everyone got part of the big gulp! They remember that as the "good ole'" days!