On one hand, it's pathetic you have to do this because people can't make responsible health choices but on the other, these huge chain fast food places like McDonalds and Taco Bell have chemists developing their different menus to make it addicting instead of nutritionists.
MElouise
· 1 year ago
21st century's prohibition begins.
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· 1 year ago
Aren't there thousands of other oils. You'll still be able to get your greasy freedom fries?
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· 1 year ago
Looks like I have a misplaced question mark...
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· 1 year ago
I cook with vegetable oil and it still fries fine. It just wont keep as crispy as long.
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· 1 year ago
I'm sure you would still be able to get a can of Crisco at the supermarket for frying if you miss it.
MElouise
· 1 year ago
Just looked in the pantry; stick Crisco has no trans fats. I use it for making gingersnap cookies in the fall; delicious in the afternoons with tea.
I keep forgetting; most people don't make their own food. It's such a foreign concept for me.
MElouise
· 1 year ago
Vegetable oil (soybean) and olive oils are all we have, too. My husband and kids like french fries, but he makes them here at home from scratch- and then maybe 4 or 5 times a year max.
MElouise
· 1 year ago
No, no- you misunderstand.
I can't stand fast foods AT ALL and much prefer to cook at home with our own vegetables and herbs. Got homemade zucchini bread baking now and have frozen quarts of different veg this past week. I buy olive oil by the gallon! :)
My comment was much more snark regarding the necessity of a state having to step up, as both the food industry and the American public are completely unwilling to change their ways.
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· 1 year ago
I was just being snarky, too. It's a difficult problem, though. I see both sides.
jr
· 1 year ago
America needs to unclog those arteries
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· 1 year ago
I doubt there will be much of a public outcry except from maybe the smoker types who insist they should be allowed to smoke around others "because in 'Murka, that's my gawd given right."
"This political correctness run amuk is a threat to this nation. It touches on a lot more issues than transfats."
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· 1 year ago
Liberalism. Once you’re stricken with it, it’s pretty hard to be normal again.
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· 1 year ago
It's probably just another sign of the end-times for some:
You and me both. Everything government touches, it screws up.
Perhaps that is the grand lesson in life, that all worldly governments become corrupt, and that as a people we are at the mercy of Someone greater than our human selves.
As I have watched what is taking place in our nation, this realization has become comforting. I sure don’t like the idea of accepting that we can’t do better than this though.
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· 1 year ago
Hey, another reason to like this new legislation. Makes wingnut heads explode:
One of my favorite places to eat used to be KFC. I’ve never been over-weight and am very physically active so if I want to eat KFC 3 or 4 times a year, then it’s my decision. The last 5 or 6 times I’ve eaten KFC, it has tasted like crap and I’ve tried every one of them in this city. So now no more KFC for me. Not because of health reasons of course. I was perfectly capable of balancing fattening foods with good health habits. All because it tastes like crap now. Makes me so mad!
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· 1 year ago
This guy should go up to WalMart, get a Fryer Daddy, can of Crisco and experiment with some chicken quarters with his own spices. Cayenne pepper finely ground for hot and spicey, maybe some onion powder. Etc. Have at it and have some fun:
Jason's Deli (a privately-owned restaurant chain based in Beaumont, TX) started working 3+ years ago to take all trans fats out of their menu. They are now trans fat free, AND they have only one item left on their menu that contains high fructose corn syrup. (Google that one if you're unaware of the negative health impacts that stuff has on the human body.)
They also stock their salad bar with as much organic/local produce as they can get their hands on.
Their food tastes fresh, clean and delicious -- almost as good as what I fix here at home every day ;-)
(We turned into healthy food freaks even before our babies were born in the early '80's.)
Jason's Deli will have no problem with the new rules. I'd like to see how Mickey D's, Wendy's, Arby's, etc. will be able to deal with it all.
Currently crafting a giant pot of ratatouille, thanks to hubby's organic garden's overabundance of eggplant today. Delicious!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
As liberal as I am, I have a real problem with this. Many years ago I was smoking at a party on an outside deck. There was a breeze. It shifted suddenly and the smoke I exhaled blew into the face of two doctors who were at the party. I apologized and one said, "No, no you go right ahead and have that fine cigarette. It is your choice, although you are addicted. Because after they take away your smokes, (holding up his bottle of Heinecken) they are coming after this beer. And then they will come after my monthly guilty lunch at McDs, and after that is gone they'll come after my steak, and then after that the salads, and eventually we'll be eating SOYLENT GREEN."
I agree we are all lazy and fat. But the real culprit here is not the consumer, it is the corporate world of television mixed with cheap crap food mixed with lack of education. Go re-read Vance Packard's "Hidden Pursuaders".
Indigo
· 1 year ago
It's easy enough to stay home, cook good food, eat healthy, save money.
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
Okay, I have been doing what I have been told now for 44 years. I don't smoke, never have. I don't drink. I keep my AC at 78 in the summer, heat is 66 in the winter. I have been recycling since I was a kid. (Our family was considered freakish for doing it years ago.) I drink skim milk. I eat my fruits and vegetables. I have been using a canvas bag at the grocery store for years. I take public transportation when possible. I carpool. So, when I want a fucking Tasty Kake with trans fat, I don't give a rat's piss that it will clog my arteries. (I know, the CA law exempts package goods, but still.) I am a liberal but this annoys me to no end.
This law will help with restaurant food as the changes to taste are neglible-- but with baked goods, if the product is less than .5 of a gram of trans fat, it can be labeled 0% trans fat. So manufacturers tweedled with the portion size and did a little Crisco magic to get it under --assuming if they got it under at all. Will CA test the donuts from the local bakeries? I doubt it. They only look for ingredient labels.
So yes, I recognize we have an obesity issue in this country....but people need to start exercising more. And yes, I do recognize that healthy food is more expensive than cheap fat processed food. So that said, I still want my fucking cookies.
Sorry for the rant and as always, thank you for listening. :-)
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I keep forgetting; most people don't make their own food. It's such a foreign concept for me.
I can't stand fast foods AT ALL and much prefer to cook at home with our own vegetables and herbs. Got homemade zucchini bread baking now and have frozen quarts of different veg this past week. I buy olive oil by the gallon! :)
My comment was much more snark regarding the necessity of a state having to step up, as both the food industry and the American public are completely unwilling to change their ways.
"Nutjobs, every last one of them."
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Seeing the headline with Schwartzeneggar’s name, and it being California, where anything can happen...I thought may be Arnold banned fat transexuals.
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"This political correctness run amuk is a threat to this nation. It touches on a lot more issues than transfats."
Once you’re stricken with it, it’s pretty hard to be normal again.
You and me both. Everything government touches, it screws up.
Perhaps that is the grand lesson in life, that all worldly governments become corrupt, and that as a people we are at the mercy of Someone greater than our human selves.
As I have watched what is taking place in our nation, this realization has become comforting. I sure don’t like the idea of accepting that we can’t do better than this though.
One of my favorite places to eat used to be KFC. I’ve never been over-weight and am very physically active so if I want to eat KFC 3 or 4 times a year, then it’s my decision. The last 5 or 6 times I’ve eaten KFC, it has tasted like crap and I’ve tried every one of them in this city. So now no more KFC for me. Not because of health reasons of course. I was perfectly capable of balancing fattening foods with good health habits. All because it tastes like crap now. Makes me so mad!
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They also stock their salad bar with as much organic/local produce as they can get their hands on.
Their food tastes fresh, clean and delicious -- almost as good as what I fix here at home every day ;-)
(We turned into healthy food freaks even before our babies were born in the early '80's.)
Jason's Deli will have no problem with the new rules. I'd like to see how Mickey D's, Wendy's, Arby's, etc. will be able to deal with it all.
Currently crafting a giant pot of ratatouille, thanks to hubby's organic garden's overabundance of eggplant today. Delicious!
I agree we are all lazy and fat. But the real culprit here is not the consumer, it is the corporate world of television mixed with cheap crap food mixed with lack of education. Go re-read Vance Packard's "Hidden Pursuaders".
This law will help with restaurant food as the changes to taste are neglible-- but with baked goods, if the product is less than .5 of a gram of trans fat, it can be labeled 0% trans fat. So manufacturers tweedled with the portion size and did a little Crisco magic to get it under --assuming if they got it under at all. Will CA test the donuts from the local bakeries? I doubt it. They only look for ingredient labels.
So yes, I recognize we have an obesity issue in this country....but people need to start exercising more. And yes, I do recognize that healthy food is more expensive than cheap fat processed food. So that said, I still want my fucking cookies.
Sorry for the rant and as always, thank you for listening. :-)