Posted on 12/18/2020 12:48:24 PM PST by rickmichaels
The Trump administration has taken steps to roll back some pretty high-profile rules. You might have heard of its moves to eliminate the ban on drilling for oil on public land, or maybe anti-fracking rules, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.
But here’s another deregulatory effort that has flown more under the radar: the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping its rules governing the makeup of…frozen cherry pies.
Small potatoes? Maybe. But Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA chief, applauded it as a fat slice of liberty for the populace. “The American people are free (to) add extra fruit, sugar, and make the crust especially thick,” he tweeted.
Here’s how we got to the Freedom Pie phase: For decades, the FDA has set precise and detailed standards for all kinds of food products, spelling out, for example, the proportion of fruit that goes into a jam, mandating that gumbo must contain okra (unless it’s labeled “Creole-style”), and dictating that fajitas must contain no less than 15 percent meat.
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And chocolate pie is not at the top of that list?
Go to your room!
I have a chocolate pie recipe that will curl your eyebrows...I usually make it dark chocolate too. Some [real] whipped cream and it’s about 2 1/2 inches from heaven.
Just for kicks I made an apple pie from scratch this fall. getting the crust right was the hardest part. Everything else is easy peasy. With a lattice top, it looked just like store bought.
Man I loved McDonald’s cherry pies...not sure why they discontinued.
No banana cream?
I’m sure the Army has a recipe for cherry pie that would be a good standard to use for frozen cherry pies. I’m not being sarcastic.
It is easier/more convenient to ship cans of Spam to Hawaii than it is to ship live hogs.
Key Lime.
Ain’t nothin in the world like real Key Lime Pie.
Marvin and Johnny recorded “Cherry Pie” in 1954, and it was a hit in Los Angeles—I don’t know how well it scored elsewhere. Skip & Flip also did it in 1960.
that’s the point! mediocrity continues to thrive without the FDA’s interference
If we had an FDA that could notify use that Justin Beaver is really not worth the effort then a lot more people could avoid his, and the others you mentioned, mediocre crap.
The FDA is just operating under the wrong set of guidelines. Instead of mandating a particular narrowly defined standards, it could just give a seal of approval that a certain product meets standards and with a grading scale. That way if want to buy a particular crappy product
then I am able to do so without big brother preventing me.
i used to love the bacon wrapped pink slime burgers, 14 for 10 bucks. some butt crust had to f that up too.
I also do Waldorf Chocolate Cream Pie. Three stage pie. It uses a butter crumble crust. Lower layer is a chocolate custard cream, mid-layer is a very rich and ghick chocolate mousse, top layer is chocolate whipped cream. Topping is genedrously sprinkled crushed walnuts. The pie is about four inches deep. Have the diabetic crash cart on hand. It is rich. My father, who was a master chef originated this recipe in 1940.
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