We're becoming more like the US every day. Not because we're all getting fatter and greedier; no; it's because we're increasingly unable to take any responsibility for our own actions, preferring instead to blame junk food manufacturers for our inability to act with restraint.
In the States it has gone so far now, that fat, weak-willed idiots are trying to sue McDonalds for making them into the useless, obscenely obese, whining fuckwits they are, which is ridiculous. That revolting and slightly sinister clown may look suspiciously like some sort of child killer from a crap television adaptation of a weak Stephen King novel, but he doesn't pin people down and force feed them that artificial muck he peddles. McDonalds don't deliver, so you actually have to go there and get the food and eat it. I can't see how they can be held responsible for that. There's now a film, Supersize Me which attempts to demonstrate how eating only McDonald's food for 30 days can make you ill. Well, of course it does, any idiot can see that. Then again, Americans do seem to need someone to point out the bleeding obvious, just look at how well Fat Michael Moore has done out of making "documentary" films stating the painfully obvious.
Don't forget that Grange Hill's Roland Browning crammed his face with chocolate and crisps because he was fundamentally unhappy, and sought solace and comfort in snacks from the constant bullying. Most Britons don't have this excuse, and are simply too ignorant and lazy to stop themselves from pressing bar after bar of chocolate into their bloated faces.
Chocolate manufacturers fear a backlash as Doctors and Politicians raise their concerns causing Britain's Fat people look for somebody to blame: someone, anyone but themselves. They have decided to remove vending machines from Primary Schools. Well, they shouldn't be there in the first place, and this could be seen as an outrageous and cynical marketting tactic, to target young, impressionable, and in the majority of cases, thick sheeplike children. However, you have still got to put in the money, take the chocolate, stick it in your gob and swallow it. Perhaps the problem is not that people are greedy, but simply that they are incredibly stupid and will do whatever their television set tells them to do.