When Arlen bans food containing trans fats note , Sugarfoot's Barbecue restaurant shuts down and Hank and Buck Strickland create a food truck business to evade the law.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Parodied, with Hank's fairly minor misdeeds getting Peggy very excited.
- Black Market Produce: After trans fats are banned, resulting in Sugarfoot's getting shut down, Buck decides to sell his food via the black market. Unfortunately, his rival Rooster gets the same idea.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Hank tells the board members that all kinds of food gets you sick like rare burgers and raw oysters, they have them banned as well.
- Call-Back: Rooster first appeared in The Buck Stops Here.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: After trans fats are banned in Arlen, nobody, not even Dale, considers simply going somewhere else to get food cooked in trans fat, instead staying in Arlen to partake in the black market business.
- The Fat Episode: While Bill's already out-of-shape, he gradually puts on an alarming amount of weight from binging on the remaining government approved junk food. He figures if there's no trans fats, that means it's healthy. Hank finally shocks him back to reality by showing Bill his reflection and how much weight he's gained.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: Unlike Sugarfoot's, who had Hank to guide them, Rooster didn't care about safety or health regulations, resulting in everyone in Arlen who ate his food praying to the porcelain gods.
- Hypocrite: Despite the fact that Ted Wassanasong was the one who started the banning of trans fats to begin with, he becomes one of Sugarfoot's first customers because he secretly likes trans fats too.
- After it's revealed that Dale ate from Rooster's truck, resulting in him getting sick, Hank and Boomhauer chastise him, only for Boomhauer to get sick, revealing he ate there as well.
- It's revealed at the end of the episode that the board members ate from Rooster's truck as well, as they are seen taking pills for their food poisoning.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After Ted instigated the trans fats ban, then smugly talked about having the self control needed to eat such food from the Sugarfoot's truck, he gets his ass kicked by Rooster's men.
- The board members who started the trans fats ban secretly eat the illegal food from Rooster's truck, resulting in them getting food poisoning. In fact, the only reason they repeal the ban in the first place is because Hank and Nancy have footage of them buying Rooster's food.
- Mob War: Just as Hank wants to back out of the illegal food truck business, Buck's rival Rooster arrives to declare a turf war.
- My God, What Have I Done?: At first, Hank joins the illegal food truck business because he wants to make a good cause, but once it becomes apparent that this is nothing more than a black market operation, along with Bobby starting to go down the same path, he wants out.
- Sustained Misunderstanding: Bill is incapable of understanding that even diet junk food is still junk food. Hank refers to multiple past instances where Bill went overboard on things like light beer and diet soda when he starts on binging on junk food without trans fats.
- Temporary Bulk Change: Bill, who grows fatter from binging on junk food he thinks is healthy for not having trans-fats. Flashbacks indicate this has happened to him before.
