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

[Diomedes]

fascilitate moterfargers ineed

[MDS]

spelling is for losers.

[ice grillin you]

I disagree, I found that a sneak ass lick sometimes yields fanatastic results.


lol

[Cerevant]

If transfats offered no benefit, chefs would not use them as ingredients.

FLAWED LOGIC.

Chefs use them because they are cheaper than real (semi-solid) fats.  If they replaced 20% of the ground beef they use with ground rat, that would be cheaper too, and you probably couldn't tell the difference.  Why should you care?

I agree with you on the choice issue, except when there is a question of whether or not the consumer is making an informed choice.  How is the consumer supposed to know what items on the menu have trans fats and which do not?  How many consumers know what trans fats are?   Based on this thread, not many.

[rjs246]

I can agree that information on food's content should be 100% available to the consumer. There isn't much sense in disagreeing with that.

[Rome]

I just had a heaping helping of beef fried rice and it was some sick delicious shtein.

This joint up the road uses real NY strip steak in their fried rice instead of the mystery meat that most places use.

Yum.

[ice grillin you]

NEW YORK -- A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City and Buffalo.

NewsChannel 4 reported that Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing the ban in response to two recent pedestrian deaths in his district, including a 23-year-old man who was struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod on Avenue T and East 71st Street In Bergen Beach.

"While people are tuning into their iPods and cell phones, they're tuning out the world around them," Kruger said. The proposed law would make talking on cell phones while crossing the street a comparable offense to jaywalking.

Some pedestrians said they were not worried about their safety while using their electronic devices while walking.

"I look for the light," said Venus Montes of Williamsburg.

"I'm still looking," said Lance Gordon of Far Rockaway. "It's not like I'm not paying attention."

Others said the proposed ban would not work.

"I don't think anyone's going to be up for this," said Patricia Lewis of Staten Island. "I don't think anyone wants this."

Some pedestrians think the proposal was a good idea.

"It's too dangerous," said Nicole Lake of Jersey City. "Drivers don't pay attention and pedestrians don't pay attention."

[Diomedes]

Because the person driving the 2,000 lb vehicle always has the right of way?

[Father Demon]

I saw that 2 days ago, and was going to post it.\

But I am one lazy sunuvabitch.

[General_Failure]

Because the person driving the 2,000 lb vehicle always has the right of way?

Not down here they don't. At the major intersctions where you've got the little blinking guy, the cars still have ROW. Even then, they've still got to wait until everyone is done crossing after the blinking guy goes on. Everywhere else, they've got to wait for the pedestrians no matter what.

[rjs246]

Because the person driving the 2,000 lb vehicle always has the right of way?

That's the way it should be. This is reason number 1 that Boston drives me to murderous thoughts. I've never been someplace where people brazenly walk out into moving traffic until I came here. And guess what, since pedestrians always have the right of way in Mass, if you hit someone who just walked out into traffic without bothering to look, its your fault. COMMON SENSE BE DAMNED!


Stab stab stab.

[Cerevant]

And guess what, since pedestrians always have the right of way in Mass, if you hit someone who just walked out into traffic without bothering to look, its your fault. COMMON SENSE BE DAMNED!

Same here in Ontario - it wouldn't piss me off so much except that people take their farging time...I'm trying to make a turn, got my ass out in traffic and these people are standing in the middle of the street with their thumbs up their asses.  Grrr.

[Geowhizzer]

I hate it when they walk out in front of you, and then just stare at you while they slowly walk across the street like they own the place.

[Cerevant]

Uh...farging a...I was driving one day and this icehole walks out in the middle of the street (not at a crosswalk) and stares me down.  Hes got 2 or 3 chicks following him kind of cowering at the curb because they don't want to walk out in traffic.  This guy stands there and waves them out, and stands there until they are finished crossing.

If I hit him it would have been my fault. 

[Diomedes]

Not gonna even argue this one with you folks.  Yay cars.