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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by scandinavegan on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:35AM (#17292331)
In Sweden, sweets and ice cream are banned at my kids' pre-school and school through the official system, but then a kid will move and have an ice cream sending-off celebration or an instructor switches jobs and does the same. Also, we just had celebrations for the start of summer vacations, with cookies and lemonade. So the ban is definitely not the complete ban that I would like, since they make constant exceptions for individuals to bring their own stuff and even serve it themselves on special occasions.

Both school and pre-school make it sound like they don't allow sweets, so it's very disingenuous. At least they're not served lemonade daily for lunch, and the afternoon snack is fruit.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by codebolt on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:57AM (#17292448)
As a Norwegian, I just want to add that Swedish candy shops are insane. I find it strange that your country doesn't have a lot more diabetic/obese people. Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?
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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by silvestrov on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:07AM (#17293923)
Some of the candy shops in Denmark seems to be used for money laundering.

Most candy is cheap to buy in volume and you just discard it rather than handing it to customers. Everything looks fine in the books. You just don't have as many customers in the shop as the accounting books says you have. You will have to pay tax on the laundered money but that can be a small price for making the money fully legal and usable for e.g. house loans.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:37AM (#17293635)
> Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?

All the adults who were deprived in childhood.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by kalleboo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:22PM (#17296283)
> Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?

Norwegians driving across the border to avoid the sugar tax?

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by hrnnnnnn on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:09AM (#17292499)
Also the fika culture is pretty ubiquitous, at my office there's almost always some cake lying around in the kitchens.
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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by kzrdude on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:48AM (#17294390)
By the same argument there should be more alcoholics in deregulated alcohol markets in Europe. And I think there are, but is it a significant difference?
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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by dagw on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:57AM (#17303062)
Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?

Norwegians

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