Posted on 01/04/2021 8:33:20 AM PST by mylife
Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday began offering a cauliflower rice option to attract consumers trying to comply with their New Year’s resolutions.
The rice substitute is made with grilled cauliflower, cilantro, lime and salt and will be available in U.S. and Canadian restaurants for a limited time. The option will cost an additional $2 for tacos, burritos or bowls.
Chipotle started testing the item at select locations in Colorado and Wisconsin this July. The company said that before the test, one-third of new menu requests from customers was for cauliflower rice. The rice substitute has grown popular as more consumers cut grains out of their diet. In the test markets, nearly 1 in 3 customers who chose cauliflower rice was an infrequent or new Chipotle customer.
To promote the nationwide launch, Chipotle is also extending its
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Sandy Cortez doesn’t like cauliflower. Says it’s “colonial.”
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I forgot about that nugget of lunacy from AOC.
And what is wrong with rice? Meat? Wheat? Diary? Nuts? People invent crap to be scared about. It is not mentally healthy. This nation has turned into a bunch of safety concern freaks.
They just jumped the shark.
Why would you care what people eat at Chipotle? I like cauliflower rice, it’s a good change of pace. I still eat white rice and brown rice too.
Isn’t this what capitalism is all about? More consumer choice. If Chipotle thinks its a wise business decision then have at it. You or I can always vote with our feet and wallet.
Cauliflower rice belongs in the trash.
Nice big burrito, but, please, only cauliflower rice: I’m on a diet. Oh, and a Diet Coke, please. So many fat Americans: eat too much and move too little and refuse to make adjustments in either. Cauliflower rice isn’t an answer for weight loss, but it’s a good way to get people to eat cruciferous veggies, which is always a good idea.
And its far too white
Broccoli, on the other hand is the Cruciferae of Color!
You might be right. Unfortunately it would join my pasta, bagels, flour and corn tortillas, and other high carb foods....
Yeah me too. Have to cut the carbs. Diabetes, cancer, heart diease all feast on them.
As someone who is very low carb, I look forward to trying this in a burrito bowl. I normally just get salads from Chipotle with veggies and meat.
I use a frozen bag of riced caulifower, microwave it, then add in beef and guacamole.
No, they are giving customers what they want.
And since "cauliflower rice" is easily frozen and pulled out when the customer demands they should not lose a great deal of money on breakage.
Now as to taste, cauliflower rice tastes like chopped up cauliflower.
Not horrible but not really great either. It is just filler.
I recommend people watch the "Fat Head" movie as an introduction.
“And what is wrong with rice? Meat? Wheat?”
Rice and flour are high on the glycemic index. Whole wheat bread is 74, rice is 73. Honey is 61 and ice cream is 51. Not an issue for everyone, but a lot of us who grew up fat find the high glycemic foods spike our insulin. Eaten regularly, those spikes build up our tolerance for insulin, making us “insulin resistant” and can lead to diabetes. I’ve lost 30 lbs and am MUCH healthier since I started avoiding high glycemic foods. REALLY avoiding them.
Supposedly cauliflower flour doesn’t have that effect. I have limited experience with it. It is....well, barely adequate for a pizza crust.
Dr. Jason Fung - ‘Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
“Are they just retarded?”
No, they are reacting to market demand.
Low carb is here to stay. Too many people have lost weight on it and too many people are curing their diabetes on it.
I refer to these types of solutions as candy cigarettes. Instead of making good, low carb meals, they try to fake high carb meals. In the end, it’s never any good.
Now if they’d just get rid of the damn cilantro that they bury everything in. Freaking nasty.
FWIW, I never had heard of rice in a burrito until I spent some time near Seattle. I grew up in Tucson. Rice in burritos is an obscenity.
I love cauliflower rice and if grilled, even more flavor! I use it in recipes like stuffed bell peppers filled with sausage, beef and cheese, or substitute it in any rice skillet dish. You would never even know it wasn’t regular rice unless you ate it straight, and why do that? It’s good for keto/low carb eating. I would try this at Chipotle. I usually order the burrito bowl with no rice/no tortilla.
A few years ago, my daughter brought me what I thought included mashed potatoes. It was mashed cauliflower and it was delicious.
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