The trans fat bandwagon
I was never the Girl Scout type.
I’d sooner gouge out my eye with a spork than spend my time braiding lanyards and going door-to-door selling sweets in attempts to spread some prepackaged, socially conditioned goodwill.
But man, oh, man, do I love their cookies.
Jumping on the trans fats ban bandwagon, the Girl Scouts announced that, for the first time in 90 years of cookie history, they have sucked nearly all the trans facts out of all varieties of their cookies.
It seems trans fats have replaced smoking as the new national whipping boy.
Recently New York City passed the nation’s first ever municipal ban on trans fats in restaurant cooking. Falling in line, Walt Disney World and Royal Caribbean International announced they, too, will cut the trans fats from foods they serve (although I’m quite sure it will still put you back 10 bucks for a hot dog at Disneyland).
Starbucks next declared it too will remove trans fats from its Frappucinos and cranberry bliss bars and State Representative Peter Koutoujian filed legislation last month to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to ban trans fats.
Has the nation reached its trans fats tipping point?
Girl Scout cookies may now be sans trans fat, but you won’t find me sidling up to khaki-outfitted entrepreneur until they cut the calories.
