Posted on 07/17/2006 11:04:39 PM PDT by neverdem
CHICAGO, July 14 — In Grant Park, this city’s front yard along Lake Michigan, a dizzying pack of people filled the streets evening after evening, all holding their gazes firmly on the little plates in their hands, loaded with catfish beignets, curly fries smothered in cheese, pirogies with sour cream, beer-battered artichoke hearts, and fried dough buried in berry sauce and whipped cream.
This was the Taste of Chicago, an annual rite of summer that ended last weekend and was one more chance to eat in the city of Broad Shoulders — and, in many cases, broader bellies, hips and chins. But Chicagoans, who complained (reflexively if not convincingly) when Men’s Fitness magazine proclaimed theirs the fattest city in the nation not long ago, may have healthier deep-fried mozzarella sticks in their futures.
Edward M. Burke, who has served on the Chicago City Council since 1969, when cooking oil was just cooking oil, is pressing his colleagues to make it illegal for restaurants to use oils that contain trans fats, which have been tied to a string of health problems, including clogged arteries and heart attacks.
If approved, nutrition experts say, the ban will be the first in a major city, following the lead of towns like Tiburon, Calif., just north of San Francisco, where restaurant owners have voluntarily given up the oils. In truth, while the proposal’s prospects are uncertain, Chicago officials have been on a bit of a banning binge these days in what critics mock as City Hall’s effort to micromanage residents’ lives in mundane ways.
The aldermen voted in April to forbid restaurants to sell foie gras. They have weighed a proposal to force cabbies to dress better. And there is talk of an ordinance to outlaw smoking at the beach...
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Great. Life will be so much better if I have to buy my Oreo Cookies from Al Capone.
Yet more nanny-statism.
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Always remember to substitute the words " alderman and commissioner " for " Commissar " , it helps keep these things in perspective .
How many would consider a proposal forcing cabbies to shower or put a heath warning label on the cab?
Would prop 65 already cover this in Calif?
As a lifelong Californian "What's a cab?"
As a lifelong Californian "What's a cab?"
I saw them on a game show on TV. You get in this car and tell the driver where you want to go. He will drive you there and ask question on the way. If you answer the question right he gives you money, but if you get three of them wrong he will kick you out of the car. And you walk.
I wonder, can Chicago also reduce the fat in their elected officials' heads?
10 murders in Chicago this weekend; all handgun crimes. Guns are prohibited in Chicago.
One of the worst school systems.
Continued decline of middle class families.
losing population.
loss of manufacturing base continues. No longer leader in toolmaking, candy, meat processing, steel, forgings, plastics, anything industrial.
Good for yuppie businesses, financial purveyors, bad art galleries, homo businesses.
CLEAN AIR!........ no industry, that's why.
Great for distribution...
Forgot... home to
Rahm Emmanuel
Dirty Durbin
Osama Barack
Farakkkkkkkhan nation o' Islam fame
Jesse Jacksons'
Daly Jr.
Yes, and now low fat , fat.
Used to be called "city of broad shoulders"
Now, just a wimpy.....
So really, why do we put up with this? Where is the outrage? Could we have a 'National Nanny-nazis Job Fair' ; and encourage them to get 'real jobs'? Could we at least, shine the 'light of truth' on what really animates these people?
In a world filled with the outrageous; are we just too tired to tell these folks where to go?
Whatever. . .ignoring them is not enough. Placating them. . .tolerating them is not enough.
We must stop 'nanny-nazism'; before it is too late. . .
The nannies will have gone too far when they attempt to shutter the soul-food cafes....
Glad I don't live in a big city....
I think the Comrade Mayor is on crack.
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