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To: Gauguin who wrote (40944)11/3/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
Those are the potato chips with fake grease (olestra) in them; it sorta goes right through you.
There's a new prescription drug, Xenical, being advertised as a fat blocker. It does the same thing ... prevent your body from absorbing the fat, so there's only one place to go. It's Antabuse for cheeseburgers. (or avicados.) <hmph> Puritans.