And now, with the fair having come and gone again for another year and with no noticeable change in the environment, the case is about to go to trial. But at least once side in the disagreement is unhappy about the delay. Brick Walters reports. And in all likelihood, it would be unable to get up. Mark Rambling, spokesman for the United Donut Industry, has become a fixture on network TV, vigorously defending the product.
People eating donuts makes people fat.
And the case was also delayed by problems with the evidence. And yet so much of it disappeared. I don't get it. In addition to all this, Virgil Smoot laments that many witnesses who had promised to testify against the cholesterol peddlers later got cold feet. Among them, Donna Slocum, who told me last year that she attributed her astonishing weight gain at the 1998 fair to airborne fat from the mini donut stand just feet away from where she was working.