Trans Fat Ban Takes Toll (Cookies)

NYC bakers, forced to stop using butter due to the city’s ban on trans fats, now use delicious palm oil and margarine in cookies and muffins. Mmm, mmm. Palm oil. Now that’s how you make a cookie. Everybody happy now? CORRECTION: Only some of the bakers are avoiding butter, in order to satisfy commercial customers such as Starbucks who want to be able to use the label “trans fat free”. Butter is still legal. Thanks to Toby and Gabriel for the correction. Natural trans fat is still legal. Now I’m off to enjoy a Starbucks palm oil muffin.