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All That’s Fit to Print The board of health in New York City has decided that restaurants there must stop using trans fat in food preparation by 2008. Trans fat is margarine and the like. I think. I’ll be perfectly honest. I get awfully confused about fat, trans or otherwise. I don’t think I am alone. Didn’t we all give up butter and switch to margarine because the health folks said it was better? In the news, officials from a couple of states compared trans fat to things like asbestos and rat poison. I gotta tell you that talk like that makes me think zealot. Trans fat may not be good for you, but I don’t think margarine on a slice of toast will kill you quite as fast as a serving of rat poison. I won’t even get into asbestos. I think one thing that bothers me about New York’s decision to ban trans fat from restaurant food is that it is a ban. When an agency, or a government, starts drawing a line in the sand over food preparation, what’s next? On a lighter note, our Christmas parade was doggone dull compared to one in South Carolina. A driver of a vehicle pulling a float in a Christmas parade there was cited for driving under the influence. He might have slipped under the radar, so to speak, if he hadn’t passed the parade float in front of him. I don’t know if the driver was tired of having to follow a tractor driven float, or if he didn’t like the float ahead of him. Whatever, he passed it and took off at a speed not recommended for a vehicle pulling a flatbed trailer decorated with Christmas finery and filled with waving children and adults. Needless to say, the increase in speed and erratic path of the parade float scared the socks off the folks riding the float. They whipped out their handy cell phones and called 911. I believe the news report mentioned a lot of screaming and carrying on. When the guy finally pulled the float to a stop, more than likely with the help of flashing blue lights and uniformed officers, he exited the vehicle and lunged at the authorities. He was taken into custody and charged with driving under the influence, 18 counts of kidnapping and a bunch of other stuff including an open container violation. It appears he was imbibing while driving in the parade. You think?
So, in this holiday season and in the coming year, know your fats and be careful who drives your parade float. It’s a jungle out there.
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