{"id":2530,"date":"2007-07-23T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/guess_again_tubby.html"},"modified":"2007-07-23T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:04:54","slug":"guess_again_tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/guess_again_tub.html","title":{"rendered":"Guess Again, Tubby!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smoking ban is difficult enough to police<\/a>, but trans fats are even tougher, with many restauranteurs even (apparently) unaware that they are breaking the law<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Under the new law, restaurants were supposed to switch to cooking oils or spreads that contains less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving by this month.<\/p>\n

But a survey of several popular city eateries — from swanky bistros to late-night diners — found shocking levels of trans fats in some dishes.<\/p>\n

A Post reporter visited 12 restaurants in three boroughs and asked for a side of fries — only to discover that five contained the dangerous fat.<\/p>\n

Just one of the guilty chow houses — Moonstruck Diner on West 23rd in Chelsea — ‘fessed up to having trans fat.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t made the switch,” said an employee to a Post reporter posing as a customer.<\/p>\n

Servers at the other four places said their food was trans fat-free — but the lab reports differ.<\/p>\n

One worker at the Blue Water Grill in Union Square scoffed when asked if its fries contained the unhealthy fat, and insisted, “No, that’s illegal.”<\/p>\n

But 2.2 grams of the heart-damaging oil was found in the hot spot’s 260.5-gram side of fries, according to a test conducted by Alliance Technologies in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Astoria Diner clocked in with the most trans fat in its side of fries, with 2.9 grams in one 317-gram serving, the lab results show.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, most of the eateries that failed the fat test disputed the findings.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Polimenakos, whose family owns Uncle George’s, insisted that he used soybean oil that was labeled zero trans fat.<\/p>\n

“Obviously I need to go to my supplier and trace the root of this,” he said.<\/p>\n

The owner of the Astoria Diner also said he used trans fat-free oil.<\/p>\n

“Impossible,” he said.<\/p>\n

Chris Giarrapugo, the executive chef at B.R. Guest, the parent company of Blue Water Grill, vowed to conduct his own tests.<\/p>\n

“Clearly there’s a discrepancy in what the manufacturer and what the lab says,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smoking ban is difficult enough to police, but trans fats are even tougher, with many restauranteurs even (apparently) unaware that they are breaking the law: Under the new law, restaurants were supposed to switch to cooking oils or spreads that contains less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving by this month. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}