That's interesting because a lot of people with dairy allergies also react to cassein and whey. I didn't know jews don't eat dairy.

Ditto, I did a spit take. :)

Laws of kosher forbid eating milk and meat together. Thus, it's important to know what foods contain milk.

I'd always known that Dole Whip was non-dairy (and I guess legally, according to the FDA, it is), but I had read somewhere that it was NOT vegan. For some reason, I thought the culprit was egg whites.

As I am not and never could be a vegan, I don't really care.

That nutrition information, lashbear, looks to be out of date. It's become necessary to list trans fat now. The loophole is that if it's less than a certain amount of trans fat, they can print "0." So even though they've changed the labels, we've still gotta read ingredients lists looking for the word "hydrogenated."

Dammit. Now I'm craving a Dole Float--in all its hydrogenated goodness. Mmmmm . . . Dole Float . . .

Ooer, cos that's the latest from their website ! :eek:

..but I'm still going to have one (or three) :D

...and just because I'm a geek, I had to look it up: for you kosher cats n chicks, it's considered dairy by the Orthodox Union.

Speaking of eating... just what ARE you munching on in you avatar?

As some of you know, Tom has a condition that does not allow him to eat protein. So, as the Whip is free of protein, we'll be dole-whipping it anyway. In fact, my parents bought a case of Dole Whip powder for the family (in order to give one bag to Tom-- you have to buy a whole case.)

Besides, Dole Whip is much better for you than ice cream. Take a small Dairy queen soft-serve cone, for instance. It has the same partially hydrogenated oil (but more of it.)

Calories: Dole Whip=80 DQ=230
Total fat: Dole Whip=0 DQ=7 grams
Saturated fat: Dole Whip=0 DQ=4.5 grams
Trans fat: in both the small Dairy Queen cone and a serving of Dole Whip is too small to list-- but in the large Dairy Queen cone, which is exactly twice the size of the small one-- it lists .5 grams of trans fat. So it follows that there is around .25 grams of trans fat in small Dairy Queen cone, and significantly less in the Dole Whip. That is why it isn't listed on the nutrition facts-- that one really IS the most up-to-date list.

I'd say take the pineappley goodness over the ice cream (or the corn dog) any day.

That would be a delicious Yucatan Sausage Roll from the Lost River Delta at Tokyo DisneySea. Yum.

All this time I took a quick glance at Mousepod's avatar and assumed he was eating a 50th cupcake. :rolleyes:

Alex, you're right about the kosher thing. Silly but true.