NY Bans Trans Fat

NY banned Trans Fat.. just hit the headlines. Most people probably don't really know what this stuff is except bad for you.

Trans fat was invented by a guy working with McDonalds and a potato farm. The idea was to make french fries crunchy when fried, otherwise they're just mushy. Thus, invented probably in the late 1960s if I recall.

Yeah, its the stuff that makes your French Fries crunchy.

No. Don't think of pink elephants.

Jackas.s

Not concerned about prices. I have no problem paying extra for good quality food at the grocery store. I often by the leanest meat I can find, normally $0.40-$0.60 higher than the low end. Its a joke at what people do to save a few pennies here or there.

Check McDonald's timeline and you'll see when french fries became really popular... when it became artificial. Good stuff.

Because it would take away the jobs of the brainless jizz monkeys they employ at the moment..

If you're going for a high quality taste, yes. But you're also going to have that extra fat in there.

There are reasons to season things. For example, when I make chili, its sesoned and the meat really isn't a huge factor.

It doesn't have to be restaurant quality taste. They load up on everything bad to make it taste better.

Anytime I brown meat, I normally rinse it off with water to get more of the fat and bad crap out of it.. even if its 96/4.

I'm not a huge person on taste of food.. like oh so many other people.

Society has become dumb. When people want something sweet, they go for cookies, candy, etc. Your natural habit for something sweet should be fruits instead. They're not as sugary but they cover the thing.

Remember, I'm more about health for myself than I am worried about the true taste. Though, a hamburger with 96/4 doesn't taste very much different than a 90/10 or 82/18 or whatever else is out there.


You know when you eat a Subway or where ever, do you really taste that piece of cheese they stick on there? Probably not.

That's good to know...I'm getting tired of eating rocks...

Organic food *spits* who came up with that bull? Some corporate marketing clown, that's who. If I want to eat food that is not 'organic' I'll tuck in to a nicely fried lump of metal. Maybe with some prescott chips on the side, you know, to soak up the chili sauce...

Boo hiss!

No doubt.. people think the taste lacks but its really just the normal taste, not enhanced. They fatten up the animals to produce it.. I really don't mind the taste of a lean hamburger over a fatty one.

Organic or not.. that doesn't bother me that much. Most people can't tell the different between an altered tomato and an organic one.

Basically, every fast food place in America uses genetically altered tomatos on their food, no one complains. I'm not a faw of raw tomatos but I look at them whenever they come on my food to see what they're using.

I don't eat sweets that much anymore.. I'm more inclined to reach for a fruit. I eat a lot of veggies. Americans have this weird thought process.. eat a lot, have a lot of taste.

Anyone who took a college/univesity economics course will know how taste effects food. The first bite is great, the last bite really doesn't matter. You savor the first bite or two, after that its all the same.

It's all marketing.

I generalize due to it being less effort.

Genetically altered tomatos add in DNA from.. I believe its salmon.

Weird eh? But that's how they alter tomatos to give them more meat, less liquid. One altered tomato is about the same as 2-3 'normal' tomatos.

Its business. Meh.

You would be amazed how far across society that demand extends... Last time I was in Holland there was Organic and Vegan Organic herb for sale

It does tend to give a cleaner high with less woozyness.

http://www.biobizz.nl/

They do a nice range