Chow This Week in Fast Food
posted by on August 1 at 16:40 PM
Barring legal battles, the L.A. fast food ban will soon be under way.
And also, apparently, thanks to a new calorie-counting law, New Yorkers are terrified to discover exactly how many calories are in their favorite chain restaurant foods.
At T.G.I. Friday’s, one of the few sit-down chain restaurants to have already added calorie counts to menus, a group of young women gasped as they studied the menu, barely able to find a meal under 1,000 calories, never mind an appetizer or dessert. Both Stephanie Fowler and Lindsay Green asked about the suddenly popular Classic Sirloin — at 290 calories, it was one of the lowest calorie items on the menu — but learned the restaurant ran out by the time the dinner rush started.
Of course, who eats at T.G.I. Friday’s in New York City, anyway?
(MSNBC link via Mightygodking.)
"Bridge and tunnel" folk.
I went to that TGIFridays by Grand Central Station and got a giant moth in my Caesar salad. And the waiter actually expected a TIP.
That may have been in 1995, but some things stay with you forever. :p
And these poor stupid women weren't able to only eat a third of what's on their plate? Or maybe split a dish between them?
This reminds me of the time I discovered that the lo mein, chow mein, and fried rice combos at P.F. Chang's are all around 1300-1500 calories.
No wonder John McCain is fat.
You can tell the waiter what you want to eat.
A salad with meat on it? Tell them to hold the meat and put the dressing on the side. That alone cuts more than half the fat and 2/3rds of the calories out of those "healthy" salads.
If you still want the meat, tell them to grill it instead of breading and frying it. Again, more calories and fat axed.
I don't eat out anywhere anymore, mostly due to food safety concerns (one week long hospital stay due to food poisoning will do that for you), but if I did I would make sure I could SEE who and what was being done to my food (think Panera Bread) before I ate it.
Oh no, large portions of fried food have lots of calories? I AM SHOCKED!!!
Plus, having everything on the menu smothered in cheese, or gravy, or some sort of "sauce" didn't clue them in?
comte, you're assuming that people actually cook. Lots of people don't. They just eat whatever someone gives them to eat.
Then there are the people who think cooking is opening cans and heating things up in the microwave. They are just as bad.
But who am I to talk? I have dedicated this year to cooking everything in the 1964 edition of the Betty Crocker "Good 'n Easy" cookbook. I don't have much of a life.
@1 tourists. In 10 years in nyc, not I, nor anyone I know has eaten at a TGIF in nyc. Even jersey folks don't eat at tgif when in nyc. Its not even popular with the brooklyn burger king crowd based on the fact that the tgif that took over Gage & Tollner's on Fulton Mall went out of business after only about a year. I think B&T folks come in to eat at schmancier places and feel glamorous. Not sit in sweatpants and sneakers in a tgif. I don't actually even know where there is a tgif in nyc now, probably in times square.
I survived the Times Square Howard Johnson's.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
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