Let’s see. You work, play, pay taxes, and manage to live past your 65th birthday. You may be no genius, but you are smart enough to come in out of the rain and choose the food you eat.
Not so fast. If you live in Putnam County, N.Y., the County fathers and mothers don’t think you can tell a strawberry sprinkle doughnut from a serving of grapes. So in order to save their senior citizens from themselves, they banned doughnuts from the menu at the county’s senior citizen centers, which serve about a thousand lunches a day.
However, the beneficiaries targets of this nanny state ban are fighting back. They got up a petition and when presented with it, the authorities changed their tune. Now they say the problem is that much of the donated goodies were well past their sell-by date – even moldy. Oh, and the people serving the food can’t figure out if it’s moldy? 
The compromise is that there will be “limited amounts” of doughnuts, cakes and other such goodies provided – but (I am not making this up) they will have to be eaten “elsewhere.”
I can see it now. Sheriff deputies patrolling the lunchroom.
“Step AWAY from the chocolate glazed, ma’am.”
“You can’t eat that piece of cake in here, sir. I’m going to have to ask you to take it outside. I’ll hold it for you while you stand up and collect your walker.”
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