Posted on 11/19/2010 9:09:26 AM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON - It's "food porn." That's what the Center for Science in the Public Interest dubbed the 1,030-calorie, deep-fried Lasagna Fritta appetizer at the Olive Garden.
The restaurant, known for its "bottomless" salad and breadsticks, made the consumer group's 2010 "Xtreme Eating Awards".
Other restaurants you frequent also made the list: P.F. Chang's, Five Guys, The Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Outback, Chevy's and Bob Evans.
Two Cheesecake Factory dishes were also singled out. The pasta carbonara -- described as spaghettini with smoked bacon, green peas and a garlic-parmesan cream sauce -- is loaded with 2,500 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat. The chocolate truffle cake has 1,670 calories and 48 grams of saturated fat.
The group, which some call the food police, knocks Five Guys for its 700-calorie hamburger and its fries (620 calories for the small and 1,460 for the large). Five Guys is "no friend to your hips," CSPI says, pointing to the bacon cheeseburger and large fries adding up to 2,380 calories.
In issuing its awards, CSPI says two out of three adults and one third of children are now overweight or obese in America. Nearly 30 percent of young people are too heavy to join the military.
Restaurants are changing their ways, with more of them offering smaller portions or lower-calorie fare.
They're doing now that a U.S. healthcare law will require calorie counts to be posted on menus as early as next year.
Greetings, brother deviant.
I eat food porn every day.
Take that and stuff it, Food Nazis!
Whatever will Adam Richmond do now, MAN vs FOOD will become MAN vs TOFU.......
I am a pervert, too. When I go to Five Guys, I sometimes I think I might was well just attach the burger and fries to my hips with duct tape and waddle around that way. Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden, not so much. I have eaten at both of them a couple of times and didn’t care for their food. Olive Garden is faux Italian.
He will be sent to the food gulag.
We eat at OG on special occasions............like lunch...............
Thank you Center for Public Meddling. I was not awar of some of these items and look forward to introducing myself to them in short order. They sound delicious.
Mmmmmmm.....bacon.....meat candy
And in that photo, she's topless!! Woo-Hoo!!
Liberty is such a difficult concept for too many people.
We have a 5Guys Burger here in town .. after these idiot Food Nazi’s opened their mouths... I’m gonna HAVE TO give 5GUYS a TRY...
Everyone I’ve asked “How is 5 Guys”.. I get moans of ecstasy, and THEN a description.
center for science and public interest... EFF YOU and the Vegan Fax Machine you rode in on!
just the food.
In ‘N Out
I thought food porn involved whipped cream.
Romano’s is a better choice if you must go to a chain resto.
Wonder why Bucca di Beppo didn’t make the list? I could feed the Soprano crew and Bobby Baccala with a single entree.
Man vs Food under attack.
And in that photo, she’s topless!! Woo-Hoo!!
Nice buns, too.
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