Fatty Fatty Fat Fat
Whenever the news does a story about how fat Americans have become you get the inevitable b-roll of hefty people waddling around the street filmed from the neck down. Sometimes I wonder if some fat guy eating his diner in front of the tube shouts out “Hey, that’s my fanny pack and sweat pants!”
No overweight stock footage filming in Stamford, we’ll keep the filming to A-List Hollywood films (that is until NY enacts the same tax credit). On July 1st Connecticut’s first transfat ban goes into affect in Stamford.
The New York Times has an article today outlining the upcoming ban that would affect public school cafeterias and local restaurants. Malloy put the ban into an interesting class perspective.
“What we’re seeing, quite honestly, are a lot of places in the city that serve less affluent people still cooking Latino foods, or other ethnic foods, using trans fats,” Mr. Malloy said. “That’s created a disparity of the health factor of food along economic lines, and we need to address that.”
Aside from one city rep, everyone else quoted in the article reacts positively, with some resistance to quick timeframe for the mid summer switch.
5 comments :
My consider opinion is that this ban is totally out of wack and ill considered. Just another step for the little New York that will never be.
what's wrong with healthier eatting?
I don't believe in Government mandated healthier eating! Do you want the Government to tell you to stop eating Donuts or coffee or cakes or pies? It is totally over the line. Of course I actually believe the bigger impact will be on the bakeries, than on restaurants. You can sub corn oil for lard, but a good bakeery uses butter and that is now a no no.
No no, never fear, there's no ban on butter--it's not a transfat item. It's the partially hydrogenated fats that are at issue. In fact, this may convince bakeries that have been using cheaper substitutes to go back to butter. Mmmmm...butter.
the bakery I use does use butter, but I was told that butter was on the list(erroneously I hope)
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