dumbest "news" of 2014 ~ ~ there are some "live links" to more/corroborating information in the original ~ Sooz

Your doughnuts are safe from Obama’s grasp
12/30/14 02:38 PM—Updated 12/30/14 04:31 PM
By Steve Benen

About a year ago, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) appeared at a fundraiser and delivered a stern warning to a group of Republican donors. “They’re coming after your doughnuts!” the senator said.

Referencing the Food and Drug Administration decision to ban trans fats, Paul added, “The FDA has banned unilaterally – some unelected bureaucrat has banned trans fats…. If we’re gonna have a nanny state, and everybody’s gotta eat the right thing and you can’t eat a doughnut, maybe we ought to just enforce it on the government workers first.”

The whole argument was pretty silly, but apparently, as of this morning, Fox News has brought it back.


Fox News host Clayton Morris told viewers that if the FDA’s preliminary findings take effect, crackers, frozen pizza, popcorn, coffee creamers and canned frosting will all be prohibited.

“If you’re making some cookies once a year with your kids on the holidays, that’ll be banned,” Morris added.

It all sounds quite scary. It’s also not true.

As Jon Chait explained a while back, “They are not, in fact, coming after your doughnuts. Trans fats are not essential to make doughnuts or, really, anything. Some restaurants still use trans fats because, even though they’re incredibly bad for you, they’re longer-lasting and slightly cheaper than other oils, and very few customers would ever know the difference.

“But Dunkin’ Donuts, Krispy Kreme, and many others have already eliminated trans fats, and customers have detected no difference in taste…. FDA officials are phasing out a dangerous substance at no cost to people’s ability to eat tasty food.”

In other words, when the Fox host said Americans will have to “say goodbye to your favorite sprinkled doughnut,” that’s plainly wrong.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/your-doughnuts-are-safe-obamas-grasp#break

It came from Fox and Steve Benen thinks it's newsworthy that it's wrong? That's a "dog bites man" story. The real "man bites dog" story is if something right came out of Fox News.

The real, real news is that people are still eating Krispy Kreme when they can now get Timmy's in the States.

Yummm Krispy Kreme! Way back in the stone age, they used to make the donuts fresh at every store. You could watch them being made. If you ordered a dozen (or more) of the plain glazed ones, they would load your box right off the baking line. Fresh, hot and OMG so GOOD! I could eat at least 6 without thinking. I don't like them if they are not fresh. Even reheated, they just aren't the same.

Nothing compares to fresh Daylight donuts!