Friday, March 06, 2026

RFK Jr. Puts Dunkin' on Notice

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said Dunkin' and other companies will need to prove that their ingredients are safe ...

Posted by jpw at 09:30 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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RFK Jr.'s dunk on Dunkin' riles up New Englanders: 'Come and take it' www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202 ...

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Kennedy, while at a rally at Brazos Hall last week in Austin, Texas, said, "We're going to ask Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks, Show us the safety data that show that it's OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it.'"

What drink has a quarter pound of sugar in it?

I can only find drinks with 15 grams of sugar, not 115.

And even then, safety testing on sugar? I don't think those drinks are healthy by any means, but FDA doesn't require safety testing on ingredients like sugar, just new "additives."

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-05 11:57 AM

"teenage girl"

Republicans are always thinking about how to protect teenage girls.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-05 11:59 AM

Republicans solving problems that they made up.

Since 1980 at least.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-03-05 11:59 AM

Measles is too hard.

So pick on coffee.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-05 12:16 PM

RFKJR and Trump are two examples of how too much money for too long warps a man and makes him useless.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-05 12:17 PM

------- Jr. needs to follow his daddy

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-05 12:46 PM

Kennedy needs to follow Noem out the door. He's killed more Americans than she has.

#7 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-03-05 03:52 PM

Heroin Bob has set himself up to get shanked in any airport within 300 miles of Boston. Already banned by the family from the Kennebunkport compound, he probably doesn't care, so long as he can find a toilet seat to sniff some substance from...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2026-03-06 09:52 AM

Hmmm. 1980? what happened in 1980?

#9 | Posted by danni at 2026-03-06 10:07 AM

Does anyone here remember the conservative outrage and meltdown when NYC tried to tax large sodas? That was just a tax at the local level, not a prohibition or regulation of it.

Now the is a Conservative in the White House and you have RFK trying to regulate it at the national level and... crickets.

#10 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-03-06 10:23 AM

Crackheads shouldn't be allowed to make policy.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-06 11:19 AM

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