Bad Taste For Oil
I can’t even go and eat out without being within a safe ten minute radius of my home bathroom. Whatever restaurants are using in substitute of animal/vegetable fat, it leaves a nasty Saccharin-type aftertaste and does obscene things once in the stomach. All this because of people who just won’t let us eat what we want to eat because they believe they know what’s best for us.
New York is the first American city to adopt such a stringent rule.
Starting this week, the ban extends to almost all prepared food in restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias, salad bars and food carts. There will be a three-month grace period before big fines are slapped on violators. The artery-clogging substance was first banned from cooking oils last year.
I wish I could share with them some of my chocolate mousse…
Chefs who relied on trans fats to make their pie crusts flaky, their crackers crispy and their muffins moist have worked overtime finding substitute ingredients. They have burned through hundreds of gallons of oil, shortening and margarine trying to retool old recipes without damaging flavor, texture or color.
Fast-food giants from McDonald’s to Taco Bell say they have banished trans fats without having to drop a single item from their menu.
Their fries taste like crap, and I don’t buy as many as I used to. Let’s see how long until the free market forces a change back to civility in New York.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Heh heh… New York did that just so they could get a one-up on the whackbrains in California.
Come down south when ya get hungry…
Which leads me to a thought… why is it that city dwellers die sooner than country folk? Could it be that bisquits and gravy, bacon and eggs, grits, milk and black coffee for breakfast might not be all that bad for ya? You won’t find that breakfast in New York…..
June 30th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Tsk, Tsk, Bob. My Momma died after eating 2 eggs, bacon, and grits every single day of her adult life, plus all the fried chicken, cracklin cornbread (sp?), grease filled gravy, biscuits, Pork BBQ (is there any other kind?) and collards swimming in fatback that she could eat. The Doc told her she had to stop this. He was right. She died at 83 and of breast cancer and was driving a 35 ft motorhome all over the USA by herself (well, there was the Doberman). My neighbor here in NC has the same diet. He’s 91, still drives, and has a much better memory than me.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
The restaurants being bullied by the Health Nazis should have announced that they’re going back to lard. McDonald’s fries have sucked ever since they switched to veggie oil but I can well imagine that they suck even worse under the trans-fat ban.