"No smoking in bars, and soon no drinking and no talking - and definitely No Oreos!"

New York is trying to cut down on trans fats by restricting local eateries to a mere 0.5 gram of trans fat per serving. Granted, this is Philadelphia, not New York (no one even mention the whole borough thing), but since we followed their lead with the smoking ban - admittedly to limited um, success(?) so far - Phillyist is keeping a close eye on what they're banning in the future. That way we can be sure to indulge in our other vices good and proper before Joe Local Law decides to outlaw them too.

The website Bantransfat.com, the web home for The Campaign to Ban Partially Hydrogenated Oils, gives all sorts of reasons why transfats are bad for you - your health, your heart, yadda yadda yadda. But how would this affect our most beloved of local foodstuffs? Frankly, we're having a hard time finding nutritional info on cheesesteaks that specify the transfat count - but as it's delicious fried meat and onions slathered with processed cheese product, we can't imagine it's all that good. (Oh, but a what a delight it would be to discover cheesesteaks contained 0 grams of transfat. Then we and all our run - up - the - Art - Museum - steps - but - never - actually - go - inside, Pat - & - Geno's - inhaling - tourists can claim, at least, that we eat healthy, if not well.)

We're curious to see where this goes. Is this the first sign of the Junk Food Apocalypse?

Title comes from a modified quote by our so-secret-even-he-doesn't-know-it boyfriend, Eddie Izzard. Image by way of Morguefile