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NEW YORK (AP) - When some KFC restaurants secretly switched to frying oil free of trans fats, customers didn't notice. Attempts to rid the chain's popular biscuits of a shortening filled with the artery-clogging substance did not go as smoothly.
KFC announced Monday that it would no longer fry chicken in artery-clogging trans fats, but unless the company finds a substitute for the shortening, the biscuits could be outlawed in New York City — just one casualty of the city's proposal to ban trans fats.
Advocates of the proposal, which industry leaders criticized at a Monday hearing, say restaurants can easily change their ingredients. The restauranters said that isn't so.
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