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- From: artemis@netcom.com (Michelle Dick)
- Subject: Re: Hidden Fat In Packaged Foods
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.005121.15411@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <35750@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <mcdonald.695.727820200@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <35751@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:51:21 GMT
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- In article <35751@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> sbhattac@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Shankar Bhattacharyya) writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan22.142519.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> poulin@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
- >
- >> What I enjoy is entering the supermarkets, walking over to the hot-dog areas
- >>and then looking at the 96% fat free packages and then looking at the caloric
- >>info to see that while they're 4% fat by weight, they still have 60-80% fat by
- >>calories...
- >
- >....I'm looking for clarification of that comment.
-
- He was probably just exaggerating a little (and mixing up in memory
- which products had how much fat by weight and how much by calories).
- When you first discover that all these advertisers touting "healthy!"
- and "low-fat!" products are lying to you, you get a bit exhuberant and
- may overstate things. No big deal.
-
- >Sorry if my post left unclear what I was trying to ask. I tried to make it
- >as explicit as I could. Over on rec.food.cooking I have recently been told
- >that I need a course in English as a second language, so I trust I may ask
- >for some forbearance.
-
- That particular fellow is a well-known ass. He likes to think of
- himself as a witty curmudgeon. But, he's nothing more than a
- school-yard bully.
-
- --
- Michelle Dick
- artemis@netcom.com
-