You Cannot Cross This Line. Okay, You Cannot Cross This Line

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Oct 26, 2006 4:44PM

Those folks at City Council sure are shrinking violets, aren't they? Take Ed Burke, for example. First, he wanted to ban the use of trans fats in all city-located restaurants. When he realized that wasn't entirely plausible, he introduced watered-down legislation limiting the trans fat ban to companies that only do more than $20 million dollars in gross revenue. Now, Burke is proposing that those same companies the amended legislation would affect post trans fat warnings on all wrappers, cartons, and containers.

The verbose warning would read, “Consumers of this product are hereby placed on notice that this restaurant prepares foods using cooking oils that contain artificial trans fats…The consumption of this fat increases the risk of coronary heart disease.” It's more tactful than, "Eating too much of this can kill you, fatty." But it's better than Bible quotations and just as likely to be ignored while customers tear into their cheesy triple veinclogger supreme.

Personally, we're waiting for Burke to come back in a couple months and amend the legislation further so that trans fats have to be used exclusively at Charlie Trotter's.