I am told that, when the concept of Christmas presents was first explained to me, and I was asked what I wanted, I requested a Tootsie Roll. I was not particularly demanding.<\/p>
But, some years ago, I increased one of my demands, and not just where Christmas was concerned. Specifically, I wanted Tootsie Rolls without trans fat<\/em>. But I would check the packages, and see trans fat listed (unless the Tootsie Roll in question were sufficiently small to squeak under the limit where the producer is allowed to claim none<\/em> because the absolute amount is sufficiently small), so I would sadly put the packages back on the shelves or racks whence I'd found them. But I kept checking.<\/p> To-day, I checked again, quite expecting to see it listed again. But what I found this time was a So, for the first time in years, I bought Tootsie Rolls; and, for the first time in years, I ate a Tootsie Roll.<\/p> Up-Date<\/span> (2017:04\/06):<\/span> After consuming the Tootsie Rolls that I purchased on the day of this entry, I found no more Tootsie Rolls other than those with trans-fat, until 6 April 2017.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am told that, when the concept of Christmas presents was first explained to me, and I was asked what I wanted, I requested a Tootsie Roll. I was not particularly demanding. But, some years ago, I increased one of my demands, and not just where Christmas was concerned. Specifically, I wanted Tootsie Rolls without […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1003,1002,1001],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-candy","tag-chocolate","tag-tootsie-rolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}0<\/q>,
Trans Fat 0g<\/q> for half-ounce Tootsie Rolls. (The Midgees still had trans fat.)<\/p>