From the producers of "The Smoking Ban," bring you "The Food Ban"

[Wingspan]

You knew it was coming.

Now all the people jonesin' for a donut can huddle out in the alleys with the smokers to get you chompin on....

NYC Bans Trans Fat

So just so you can update your score card...it could potentially be legal to have a cigarette, but not eat certian foods, you can not gamble on the internet, but you can buy a state funded lottery ticket.

Where do i sign up for the labotomy?

[ice grillin you]

3....2....1.....

till the OMFG ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!! people come running

[Phanatic]

Those people are up on a mountain already...

[Diomedes]

People don't even know what trans fats are, that they are eating them, why they shouldn't.

This is different from the smoking ban.  It's like saying, you can't use poison in food. 

Unlike smoking, there are options.  You can still make donuts, and they taste just as good.  You just can't use an oil that your body is unable to process and which is sent directly to your arteries to be thereforever attached...

Well, that's my knee-jerk reaction.

[rjs246]

Ban everything. Thank god there is someone out there protecting me from having to make decisions for myself.

This is so farging ridiculous I don't even know where to begin. So i won't.

[ice grillin you]

theres my boy

[General_Failure]

Ban everything. Thank god there is someone out there protecting me from having to make decisions for myself.

This is so farging ridiculous I don't even know where to begin. So i won't.

They'll get around to telling you where you're allowed to begin very soon.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Just goose-step in line and like it, hippies.

[QB Eagles]

PA will probably ban trans fats from everywhere except casinos that give a cut of their profits to the state.

[Philly_Crew]

Good luck enforcing this law.  I'm sure those in Little Italy are real worried about trans fat.

[Beermonkey]

When they took away my lead-based paint,
I remained silent;
I used oil-based paint.

When they took away my asbestos insulation,
I remained silent;
I used blown-in rock wool

When they came for my transfat cooking oil,
there was no one left to speak.

[Diomedes]

Well played.

[Cerevant]

What Dio said.  Trans-fats were *created* because they could put them in food and say the food was "low cholesterol" or "cholesterol free" - like margarine.  The reality is that trans-fats are worse for you than saturated fats.  Yes, it is more healthy to eat something soaked in bacon fat or butter than eating something with margarine.

Can anyone here actually say they would rather eat this nasty artificial shtein over the real stuff that it was designed to replace?

[rjs246]

I can say that I'd like to be allowed to eat what ever the farg I want without the government slapping my wrists about it.

[Munson]

I can say that I'd like to be allowed to eat what ever the farg I want without the government slapping my wrists about it.

You still can eat whatever the farg you want. But, like always has been the case, you won't have any say in what goes into what you're eating at a public place. Or, in this case, what they're cooking it in.