French Fries will be banned!
Posted on 09/26/2006 10:07:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
Artificial trans fats are found in some shortenings, margarine and frying oils and turn up in foods from pie crusts to french fries to doughnuts.
Doctors agree that trans fats are unhealthy in nearly any amount, but a spokesman for the restaurant industry said he was stunned the city would seek to ban a legal ingredient found in millions of American kitchens.
"Labeling is one thing, but when they totally ban a product, it goes well beyond what we think is prudent and acceptable," said Chuck Hunt, executive vice president of the city's chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association.
He said the proposal could create havoc: Cooks would be forced to discard old recipes and scrutinize every ingredient in their pantry. A restaurant could face a fine if an inspector finds the wrong type of vegetable shortening on its shelves.
The proposal also would create a huge problem for national chains. Among the fast foods that would need to get an overhaul or face a ban: McDonald's french fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken and several varieties of Dunkin' Donuts.
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Insanity. Pure insanity!
French Fries will be banned!
No soup for you!
What kind of cop is going to bust a doughnut shop?
I'm waiting for them to declare a city wide "bed time." NYC will no longer be the city that never sleeps.
Okay so what's next on the list?
bump
Bloomberg again
I miss Crispy Creams. Used to get them in Houston.
And it all started with smoking...
I like Dunkin Donuts & Crispy Creams
And Mayor "Gun-Grabber" Bloomberg thinks he'll sell in Kansas and Alabama and North Dakota and Texas in 2008 for president?
Seven billion dollars does not buy you any brains
Well, relax, he can't get yours - yet!
As a cop, I can tell you there will be plenty.
from my cold dead pudgy hands!*
Bloomie's a liberal democrat who could not get the dems to run him in NYC
So he swapped parties [he voted for Hillary in 2000]
Like NJ's Governor (ex-dem NJ Senator) he is a multi-billionaire limo-liberal with grandiose ideas of spending OPM in "progressive" social agendas
I know.
Oops, no offense officer.
LOL
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