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- AmyVernon, on 11/02/2009, -0/+24I couldn't tell the difference, in regards to trans fats. Thin Mints still totally rock.
- janjamm, on 11/02/2009, -0/+19Thin mints, frozen!
- evil-doer, on 11/02/2009, -2/+20early adaptors?
first off. do you mean adopters?
second, ive seen hundreds of products become trans fat free over the past 5 years. this isnt early. - RudeTurnip, on 11/02/2009, -1/+12Dugg for appropriate use of Pedobear.
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……,-‘ ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ,, ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |, ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ‘-, - missjames, on 11/02/2009, -0/+8omg. one of the best of life's simple pleasures ... trans fat or no!
- alanocu, on 11/02/2009, -0/+8Peanut butter patties - I love those things.....wish I had a box now....or two..... :-)
- Brian47126, on 11/02/2009, -0/+8thank you, whereas the asshat above you did not get it...
- jaybudzik, on 11/02/2009, -2/+10Girl scouts rule!
- NJank, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6last I checked, $3.50/box. where the heck are you shopping?
- brickwall99, on 11/02/2009, -1/+7Dunkin Donuts removed trans fat before girl scouts did, and I'm sure there were other companies that did it even earlier than that.
"CANTON, Mass. (August 27, 2007) -- Dunkin' Donuts today announced that all its menu offerings nationwide will be zero grams trans fat by October 15, 2007."
SOURCE: https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/press/PressRe ... - Anth0n, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6Be careful with these products. Any product with a label that says "zero grams trans fat" will almost certainly contain trans fat. As long as there is half a gram or less per serving, the packaging is legally allowed to claim zero grams. The real way to check is to see if there are any hydrogenated oils in the ingredients.
- sHockz, on 11/02/2009, -0/+5great....more reasons to stuff my face with frozen thin mints
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -1/+6How about more respect for the companies that never put the ***** in to begin with?
- haikuFU, on 11/02/2009, -0/+5This is *****, the Samoas have had partially hydrogenated oils in them this year and last year. My wife buys them, and I won't eat them because they have trans fat in them. It may say 0g on the nutrition info, but they are still in there, it says so right on the ingredient list.
What a scam. All these companies are using the 0.5g loophole per serving size to get around taking them out. They just reduce the serving size until there is less than 0.5g in it, then they can put 0g. - sprout52, on 11/02/2009, -1/+5buried and blocked for being an idiot
- AmyVernon, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Oh, yes, the Do-Si-Dos (that's the peanut butter ones, right? Or Tagalongs?) are also really good. I just don't like the Samoas. Or the non-fat ones. If I'm gonna eat a cookie, I'm gonna eat a cookie. Not a pretend cookie.
- Brian47126, on 11/02/2009, -3/+6it was a joke moron... like all the Pedo ascii...
- haikuFU, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Trans fats are poison. Your body cannot digest them, and they go straight to your arteries and stick there. They only use them because they are cheaper and have a longer shelf life than most other oils. They don't contribute to flavor, they don't make things "taste better." They are poison that they are feeding you to save a buck.
If very very small amounts of cyanide were used as a substitute for sugar, you'd be calling for all sorts of laws banning the practice. So why in the ***** are you against banning trans fats? Certain types of govt involvement is not bad. If there was no FDA, you'd be eating shredded sawdust with chicken flavoring mixed with a glob of shortening, and filled with lead oxide to increase the weight so they can get more when selling by the pound. Big food doesn't give a ***** about you, they give a ***** about their bank accounts, and they will put it in there if it saves them money and it's not banned, regardless of how ***** terrible it is for you. "Just look at the ingredient label" is not a valid solution to this, as many people don't know what to look for, and if every food company puts ***** in their food, then you have no choice but to eat *****.
I'm a devout libertarian, but food safety is a case where the govt *SHOULD* be involved. - haikuFU, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3That doesn't mean they removed it. They still use it, they just modified the serving size so it was less than 0.5g per serving, which means they can legally put 0g.
When a company says 0g Trans Fat "per serving", that's a red flag, read the ingredient list. - eviljolly, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3There's something about thin mints. They're great, but after eating some, you lose the urge to eat more for a while. Give it a day or two and the craving comes back.
- askantik, on 11/02/2009, -1/+4Am I supposed to give a ***** about this? 'Cause I don't. Just because it's free of trans fat does not mean healthy, although trans fats are bad. Anyway, this is not news.
- fuzzynyanko, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3I wondered how the Girl Scout Cookies were when they were homemade
- Akairenn, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Shh. Somewhere out there is a Girl Scout troop or whatever with a sound understanding of capitalism.
Don't ruin it for them. :) - NJank, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2different parts of the US sell cookies on different yearly schedules. Baltimore area is selling them now. Ask your friends and relatives, you may just be able to snag a few boxes on the next visit.
- emjaysea, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3Funny how they spin this. I remember it somewhat differently. Everyone was up in arms about trans fats, but Girl Scouts continued to use them for several years after the initial uproar before changing.
- akatsuki, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3Was 2 years ago the lead? I don't really think so.
- youareretarded, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2What are you talking about? Yes you can remove them completely.
- youareretarded, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I was going to say the same thing. All the girl scout cookies I had this year still had trans fat in them.
Anything that says partially hydrogenated = trans fat, no matter how much it contains. - TheMachine1, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2The current boxes I have seen all had partially hydrogenated oils in them. So I assume the Girls Scouts are among those trying to say 0.49 grams is equal to 0.00 grams.
- meninostongue, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I don't believe that trans-fats are illegal, just inadvisable. You can buy, sell and consume all that you want without risk of government involvement.
- tacojohn48, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2You might want to read up on significant digits. 0.49 = 0 is much different than .49 = .00
- crypticlabs, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2The article is dated January 14, 2007.
- bobburn1, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Early adopters of a fascist attempt to control what people can and can't put in their bodies. It used to be things like Cocaine and heroin, now it's fatty foods. Yay big government, let's make something voluntary into something statutory!
- realchris, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Remember, a cookie without trans fat = healthy!
Also,
Soda w/ HFCS = junk food
Soda w/ cane sugar = health food! - bobburn1, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Really? You can never have a cookie if you want to be healthy? Tell that to mariusz pudzianowski, he eats 3 or 4 king-sized snickers every day and he's in..good shape to say the least (http://crossfitkitchener.files.wordpress.com/2009/ ...
- GrammerPants, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1In Canada they just passed some laws limiting the amount of trans fat a product can have, as there is no such thing as trans fat free. I don't see how this is fascist, or controlling what I can or cannot put in my body. This ***** is unneeded and just bad for you, get it out of my food, most won't even notice.
- spootmonkey, on 11/02/2009, -3/+4"we think it's the healthy thing to do for everybody,"
The healthy thing to do? Really? The healthy thing to do is not eat girl scout cookies. If you're eating them you've already said ***** healthy. - clickwir, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Fine and dandy. But I still won't buy any until an actual Girl Scout comes to the door and asks if I want to buy them.
I refuse to get in on the 'Send a mass email at work' *****. - bobburn1, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Thin mints make me want to vomit after I eat more than one...the mint just isn't right.
- fitnessbuff1, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Although it is good that they removed the trans fat from the cookies, I would still not consider girl scout cookies healthy. They lack beneficial nutrients that our bodies crave.
- bshock, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I looked at a box of GSA cookies last year, when this old campaign should've been in full swing. The ingredients still listed partially hydrogenated oil (trans fat).
- lolacsd, on 11/02/2009, -2/+3Screw the GIrl Scouts-they're selling one box at a cost of $14.00 this year. Yes, four.teen.dollars. Unless there are 150 cookies per box, and we know there aren't, I'm afraid I'll pass. Ricockulous.
- nmanguy, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Didn't Wendy's or KFC go crazy over having zero (or less than 1 gram, whatever) trans fat a couple years ago? And I'm pretty sure that nearly every chip produced this side of the decade has "NO TRANS FATS" written on the front. Hardly see how some girl scouts in 2007 get to claim the first title.
- sousademiami, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2This was my FIRST though. Very large numbers of products were removing trans fats before the Girl Scout cookies did.
However this was 2 and a half years ago. But even then, I remember buying girl scout cookies before they switched and thinking "trans fats?" - jaymzdean, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1What about the battle against starch, the not-so-complex, high glycemic sugar source that as an itemized macronutrient is omitted from the nutrition label, despite the fact is the #1 ingredient? Take for instance, brown rice...it has 20 times the amount of starch as it does fiber. Yet, the starch isn't listed. Starch is sugar, people.
- fuzzynyanko, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1That's weird because peanut oil doesn't have a lot of trans fat
- tacojohn48, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Just remember donuts are very healthy. They concentrate all the bad stuff in the center and then they cut that out leaving healthy donuts.
- brickwall99, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Well, that is interesting information. But if all companies are the same in that respect, then there wasn't much of a reason for your added information on the subject.
My point was that Dunkin Donuts and many other companies did this before the girl scouts did. - farkdog, on 11/02/2009, -0/+0All I know is that fast food french fries used to be yummy, and today they have a bitter aftertaste. I used to love going to McDonald's for their fries. Now I avoid fast food altogether because their fries are so nasty tasting.
Five Guys Burger and Fries still have great fries though. They cook in peanut oil. -
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