[nickcarraway]

Acaraje, Brazil

[PapaNew]

Ah, yes, deep-fried Hostess Twinkies. The savoir faire of culinary perfection.

[Tucker39]

Please don’t shoot the messenger, but real health food people (as opposed to food nazis and fun police) will tell you that, saturated or not, palm oil is VERY good for you.

[morphing libertarian]

Good list

However, I’m partial to chocolate eclairs. And don’t get between me and strawberry shortcake with ice cream.

[Fungi]

You mean theses are the top ten as if they know all of the rest? I don’t think so.

[Caipirabob]

[Tax-chick]

Or did you, um, think that the whole delicious calzone was all for you?

Actually, I did.

[samtheman]

http://www.vegastripping.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=40&page=1

[DemforBush]

I don't know if it counts as decadent, but in pure cholesterol terms, this may be #1 with a bullet, so to speak:

BTW, on the side of the can is a recipe to fry the contents with buttery scrambled eggs. A friend on mine loves the stuff that way I've not tried it, though I'm willing to give it a shot. Can't be much different than sweetbreads, I'd figure.

[digger48]

Any bets on how many of these the First Mooch has scarfed down on her many overseas “vacations”?

[Popman]

Triple Whopper with Cheese

1,200 calories and 80 grams of fat...

The world got nothing on the USA....

[Former Fetus]

Actually those are not churros but porras. Churros are about 1/3 in diameter, they are not straight but form a loop, and nobody puts sugar or cinnamon on them... you just dip them in the hot chocolate (almost as thick as fudge) or coffee.

These are churros:

[webheart]

I don’t care for the writing style, as it is obviously a mainstream journalist. Liberals love to point out how bad America is. We have super-sized portions. How terrible. And just check out how absurd our obesity rate is. I will bet money that if this bozo were to get cheated of his super-sized portion, he would be the first one to take it out on the server, as if it were the fault of the server. And as far as obesity, it is the liberal welfare-state mentality that gives people money to buy food and doesn’t put any restrictions on the food that they buy, nor does it require the lazy to get off their butts and do some work, which is not only dignified, it is healthy.

[sportutegrl]

Case in point, Brazil’s acaraje: black-eyed peas formed into a ball, deep-fried in palm oil, and then stuffed with vatapa and caruru (spicy pastes made from dried shrimp, ground cashews … and more palm oil).

There is nothing in this that I can't have on my low carb diet.

[BfloGuy]

You know what’s really not great for you? Palm oil. A mere tablespoon of the stuff contains a whopping 7 grams of saturated fat

What a load of unmitigated, ignorant crap.

Saturated fat is good for us. It's the other crap that makes you fat. The nutritionists won't admit it yet [they're as stupid as the client scientists], but millions of Americans are learning it on our own.

[Dr. Sivana]

You know what’s really not great for you? Palm oil. A mere tablespoon of the stuff contains a whopping 7 grams of saturated fat — which is too bad

Yeah, and when it was determined to be bad, palm oil, which can be solid at room temperature, along with good ol' lard, was replaced with trans-fats, which are undisputedly far worse.

[MinuteGal]

Myself, I prefer the luscious cheese and almond bear claws at my local Publix' Danish Bakery.

Leni

[TruthWillWin]

This thread is making me hungry.

[VanShuyten]

He puts miso ramen on the list by saying the soup is made of beef,lard and oil. No, it’s usually a pork stock that’s no more greasy than any other meat stock. The calories come from the miso, but there’s no more fat in a bowl of miso ramen than is in a bowl of chicken noodle soup.