Drink 'like eating 68 bits of bacon'

the sun ^ | 5/26/10 | staff

[Nachum]

A 2,000-CALORIE milkshake that is the equivalent of 68 rashers of bacon and 30 chocolate-chip cookies has been dubbed the worst drink in the US.

Made with chocolate ice cream, milk and peanut butter, the drink - called the Cold Stone PB&C - packs a whopping 2,010 calories, 131 grams of fat - 68 grams of which is saturated - and a massive 153 grams of sugar.

It topped the Men's Health 20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 list, beating a McDonald's Triple Thick Chocolate Milkshake to the post.

Delicious

The magazine said on its website: "In terms of saturated fat, drinking this Cold Stone catastrophe is like slurping up 68 strips of bacon."

"Health experts recommend capping your saturated fat intake at about 20 grams per day, yet this beverage packs more than three times that into a cup..."

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Nachum]

LOL!

[Fast Moving Angel]

It’s only missing one of the four food groups (chocolate, grease, alcohol and salt), but a shot of Kahlua would help that. :-)

[wally_bert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1leLgTr9ytw

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Good grief. I don’t even eat 2,000 calories a day.

[FreeperDoll]

so what? live life don’t live in fear...

[tet68]

this is stupid, the recipe doesn’t call for bacon or
chocolate chip cookies!!!

Although certainly if you crumbled up a couple of strips
of bacon and a cookie or two you WOULD have a heck of
a shake. No need for a burger...

[Pelham]

Now that they mention it, bacon is the missing ingredient in that shake.

[JRandomFreeper]

I don’t even eat 2,000 calories a day.

I go anywhere from 2000 to 3000 Kcals/day. My standard malt is closer to 1300 Kcals and doesn't include peanut butter. But I eat plenty of BPJ sandwiches. All to try to maintain 118 lbs.

Different metabolisms, different requirements. One size fits all democratic thinking proven not to work again in the real world.

/johnny

[mamelukesabre]

I remember when I was taking PE in junior high, they had us keep a food journal for awhile to calculate our calories and nutrition over a long term period(like a semester) as a homework project.(it may have been 10th grade, I quit taking PE after the tenth grade)

I had to lie because I was eating over 5000 calories a day. And I was a skinny little kid, not quite the smallest in my class but certainly well below the middle or median. I was on the wrestling team in the 9th grade and wrestled at 104 I think, at the beginning of the season, and finished at 112 at the end of the season.

[Pelham]

“What the hell is a rasher?”

It’s one slice, which is hardly enough.

[Nachum]

Wrestling sucks. I had to cut weight to make it. I was always hungry. That’s why I liked soccer better :)

[redhead]

Saturated fat and I are BUDDIES! If it’s not saturated, I won’t eat it.

[mamelukesabre]

I didn’t have to cut any weight. I was at the very very bottom with almost no one to compete with. So the bigger i got, the more fun it became. One benefit of being a scrawny little sh1t, i suppose.

You know, i maintained that crazy appetite until almost age 40! Then things started to fall apart and slow down and I couldn’t exercize like a lunatic anymore and therefore couldn’t burn mega calories...actually, I quit being so hungry also. It don’t make much sense, but the bigger I get, the less I can eat.

[Nachum]

Perfect sport for you. There are always people who can eat and eat and not gain. Lots of jealousy here. I was always battling excess weight and gained a LOT of weight after my wife had some kids. It affected the blood pressure and cholesterol too and finally had to radically change my eating habits.

Now I'm at my playing weight in my college days. It is fun to get out and do some hard exercise again after a number of years. It was all about eating.

[Myrddin]

What the hell is a rasher? Do I need a cream for that?

It's just a slice of bacon. The people writing menus try to sound sophisticated and appetizing. Would you like a fillet of sole sautéed in a clarified ghee or a slice of dead fish fried in butter?

[Lurker]

God I love this country.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Different metabolisms, different requirements.

Isn't that the truth. I generally can keep steady at 1600 cal / day. When I'm intensely active physically, I can go as high as 3000 cal and not see a spike in the weight. Mr. Peel, on the other hand, is diabetic and has a terrible time shedding a couple of pounds. We recently discovered Vitamin D as a supplement to help sluggish metabolism and that appears to be working.

[Myrddin]

When I was first starting college, I took some judo classes for fun. At 180 lbs, I ended up competing against guys at 240 lbs because there wasn't anyone else available. Screw that. I burned down to 165 lbs where I could compete against people in the same weight range. I was 16 at the time. A 14 inch pizza and 26 oz bottle of real Coke made a fine lunch. I often took a 50 mile bicycle ride on weekends in those days.

[Eroteme]

A 2,000-CALORIE milkshake is the equivalent of 68 rashers of bacon and 30 chocolate-chip cookies? Bull. The bacon and cookies would add up to 9388, according to the Nutritiondata.com website.

Taking an average of 41 calories for a pan fried slice of bacon, 68 strips would be 2788...PLUS the 30 cookies, at 220 calories each (6,600) = 9388. [I based it on a standard Toll House Cookie from Burker King.]

Then they say the McDonald’s Triple Thick Chocolate Shake is 1,160 calories or the equivalent of 13 McDonald’s apple pies. Those pies would have to be 89 calories. In fact, they’re 249. 13 of them would be 3,327 calories. Do these people not have editors and fact checkers? A calculator? A pen and paper? Even if their numbers sounded plausible (which they don’t), you’d think that someone would bother to check.

I can’t believe I took the time to look up this stuff—except that junk science, junk nutrition, and junk articles and crappy “journalism” IRRITATE THE HELL OUT OF ME.