"Baltimore Bans Trans-fats, can Lancaster be far behind??" Topic

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If I can't combine my wargaming with unhealthy, fatty food, won't that lessen my gaming experience?

At least for Cold Wars and Fall In I should be safe, since I believe that having trans fats in their food is considered a "right" in Pennsylvania!

I weep for all the donut eaters of Baltimore.

McDonald's Baltimore will have to sell unflavored boiled rice.

Kind of funny. Just got done reading an article claiming that the removal of saturated fat is what is causing obesity in America. The article (this is just from skimming, mind) claims that the studies grouped saturated fat and trans-fat together, and the results were limited to 6 of 22 countries to show that fat was dangerous. Hence the low-fat diet craze of the '60s on. The article further claims that the low-fat diet has never been shown to be effective at lowering heart disease, but is still put forth as a good idea because of the 'thats just the way it is' mentality.

Sorry to wander, the timing just seemed amazing.

Gub'mint save us!

Oh, and it is a PA right. It's in our colonial charter and our state Constitution.

They'll get my scrapple when they pry it from my cold, dead, greasy hands.

Absolutely.

The death of superb tasting cuisine.

They are working on banning/taxing sugar as we speak…..

Actually, your scrapple is fine. Banning transfats is not the same as banning fats. Just to be clear, lard and butter are okay. So are most vegetable oils. It will still be easy enough to dig your grave with your teeth in Charm City AND it will taste better. Cookies and cakes made with real butter! Chicken fried in lard! I'll take that over Crisco any day.

So, does your favorite period of gaming predict your favorite type of unhealthy swill?

Napoleonics – Italian sausage, with potatoes, onions, and corsican peppers

ACW – Deep Fried Twinkie, side order of Pig Ears

WWII – Corndogs with a bratwurst chaser

Skirmish (pirates; cowboys) – Fried Baloney

The transfat-less McDonald's fries are just not the same, no matter what they try to tell you…..

They were best pre-1990 when they fried them in beef tallow.

Agreed.

It just adds that extra kick to fries, and fried chicken, etc.

Don't worry McKinstry, scrapple's just fine. That's good old saturated fat and cholesterol, no trans fat there.

cturnitsa, I don't get it. Fried bologna? Are you saying people that play skirmish are poor?

the removal of saturated fat is what is causing obesity in America

And to think, here I thought it was eating too ing much.

Eating too many Trans-Fats doesn't cause obesity. Trans-Fat causes heart disease and other issues*. I've been "off" trans-fats for almost two years and it clearly hasn't helped in the weight department. However, it's made a huge difference by eliminating a cholesterol problem. <-This is my experience only, I am not a scientist or doctor with a real answer.

It's shocking how many items have trans-fat in them. Double check the ingredients even if the food is labeled "0 Trans Fats" as the FDA has allowed companies to lie about the contents.

Edit: I know got read the article and see they aren't banning Trans-Fats. Just an amount above .5 per serving. Which means two servings can equal almost 1 gram. It's at least a start.

*My own ancedotal observation is this effects men more than women. There are way too many 90+ old ladies whose husbands died in their 60s of heart diseases in my little home town in NC. All those ladies cooked with Crisco supplemented with Trans-Fat pre-made foods everyday.

"Don't Tread-Mill on Me!"
Forcing gamers to eat healthy food is un-constitutional.
Let's see, they banned smoking in public areas, no lead in our miniatures, no weapons on site, and next there will be a hygiene check at the convention door. Other than old age and boredom what's a gamer to die of? Will war gamers have a place in this Orwellian future?

Wingnut

It's the vegetarians that ruined McDonald's fries, not the health nuts. Give me my beefy fries, dammit!

Steve
cavalcadewargames.com
nycjadie.wordpress.com

I was working for that damned clown when they stopped using the beef tallow. One day,a customer got angry over the issue,and the manager gave him the company line about healthier eating. The customers response was something to the effect-"I dont come here to eat healthy".

Well, if the killings, muggings and political corruption in Baltimore weren't enough to keep me out, this certainly is. Now I've no reason to go into the city. Lucky for me I live in a more sensible part of Maryland.

pigbear wrote:

cturnitsa, I don't get it. Fried bologna? Are you saying people that play skirmish are poor?

No – not at all. I am a skirmish gamer (frequently). I was just trying to think of some blatantly unhealthy foods (no matter how tasty the are).

I did forget one crucial wargaming category –

Amish Rake Fight – Scrapple.

The more times I go to Pennsylvania, the more I realize that the food isn't an interesting cultural throwback to a simpler time, where men pulled their own ploughs and needed 12,000 calories per day.

It's just weird.

Cheap, plentiful, but weird as all hell. And I say that as an inhabitant of the place that gave the world mushy peas and the balti, so it's not like I'm a fussy gourmet myself.

Lard is not a spice. Scrapple is not fit for human consumption. And just because the pie is $1.50 USD a portion, you should not order three slices.

Lucky for me I live in a more sensible part of Maryland.

By definition, any part of the state that is NOT Baltimore is a more sensible part of Maryland.

Lard is not a spice.

He who controls the Lard controls the universe. The Lard must flow.

Actually scrapple is just one big Amish inside joke on you English. errr, both kinds of English I guess.

When I eat in Lancaster, I think of good wholesome, lovingly prepared food like Mom used to make, only better. Sorry Mom. But in Lancaster you don't just have gravy on Sunday night watching Timmy and Lassie, you have it at every meal. Nothing like gravy on Cheerios. In fact someday I'm going to buy Lapp's and eat all my meals there! I may even see if they'll deliver a buffet to BCC.

"He who controls the Lard controls the universe. The Lard must flow."

It is by cholesterol alone I set my blood presure in motion. It is by the lard of sapho that arteries acquire rigidity, the hips acquire girth, the girth becomes a warning. It is by cholesterol alone I set my blood pressure in motion

"Lard is not a spice."

Don't tell that to generations of Jewish mothers of Eastern European descent.

Steve
cavalcadewargames.com
nycjadie.wordpress.com

Who wants Latkes?

I thought they were banning gamers, send HMGS packing back to Lancaster.

Mexican Jack Squint said
"The more times I go to Pennsylvania, the more I realize that the food isn't an interesting cultural throwback to a simpler time, where men pulled their own ploughs and needed 12,000 calories per day.

It's just weird.

Cheap, plentiful, but weird as all hell. And I say that as an inhabitant of the place that gave the world mushy peas and the balti, so it's not like I'm a fussy gourmet myself.

Lard is not a spice. Scrapple is not fit for human consumption. And just because the pie is $1.50 USD USD a portion, you should not order three slices."

Infidel! Unbeliever! You besmirch the sacred scrapple god!
Retribution will follow! You will be forced to consume Hog Maw and gravy fries. Lard-crust pies shall be your fate! Repent!! REPENT!!!!

>By definition, any part of the state that is NOT Baltimore is a more sensible part of Maryland.
>

Not quite -- there's Montgomery & Prince Georges. The triple entente of socialism.

Lard, the other white meat.

enfant perdus 22 Sep 2009 8:37 p.m. PST
Lucky for me I live in a more sensible part of Maryland.

By definition, any part of the state that is NOT Baltimore is a more sensible part of Maryland.

I bet you have never been to Prince Georges Co?
VR
James Mattes

Latkes fried in lard, potatoes fried in lard, bacon and kielbasa as far as the eye can see – how I love Poland!

On the other hand, the apocalypse is definitely near when they ban unhealthy foods! No donuts! That's not the country I grew up in!

It's just modern day prohibition, soon people will just have "Speak-Greezies" for their lard dependencies. Gangsters like Baby-Fat Nelson and Carmine "Lipo" Galante will push sweat shop funnel cakes from carnies in Bethany Beach and Ocean City.

Wingnut
First Citizen of Beaverlick, WY.