Oh, baby...
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.
Dang! You’re making me hungry.
Can I have the complete list?
I’m trying to figure out which one of these places is the closest.
My Food Porn:
1) White Castle—Philadelphia
2) Arby’s
3) Bone Daddies-Austin
4) Dairy Queen
5) Hut Hamburgers-Austin
6) Dinosaur Barbecue- Syracuse
7) Ted Drewes Frozen Custard—St Louis
8) Cooper’s —Llano,Texas
9) Penguin Dinner-Charlotte, NC
10) Hooters-—anywhere USA
I hold them in the deepest contempt.
I worked a Specialty Food Show in Vail over the last several days and Nueske's was sampling a bite size of their applewood smoked bacon "bacon lollipop" boiled in maple syrup. Yum!
TS
Oh, baby...
Wouldn't you just looove to grab that juicy thang!
Drop 'em. This is a Soros restaurant.
You have to ask yourself:
"Is it worth a DEFCON 2 situation?"
Dittos on Cooper’s.
I can see why you like Bone Daddy’s.
Oh, I’m sure... Eat enough Five Guys burgers and it’ll look like you’re hiding five guys in your clothes.
BUT, SO WHAT, FOOD NAZIS?
If someone wants to eat himself to death, it’s none of your business.
GTF out of our lives or there’s going to be a backlash like you wouldn’t believe.
This is a classic Italian dish. It's hardly Cheesecake Factory's fault. I make it very well. At least I used to. Stopped, for obvious reasons.
“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. “
No one says you have to eat the whole thing.
Our local den of iniquity in Boise: http://www.bigjudsboise.com/
or a pornicator!
Deep fried lasagne.
We need a thread on great mail order food sites... Is Nueske’s as good as they look?
Cheesecake Factory chocolate truffle cake.
Oh noes :(
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