Slog - Comments on This Week in Fast Food http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food 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,... Copyright 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:40:40 -0800 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:20:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by PC "Bridge and tunnel" folk.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091762 Chow Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:45:26 -0800 Comment by afraidOfMauthas 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

]]> afraidOfMauthas http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091770 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091770 Chow Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:48:46 -0800 Comment by monkey 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?

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091774 Chow Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:52:24 -0800 Comment by w7ngman 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.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091790 Chow Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:06:30 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle No wonder John McCain is fat.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091802 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091802 Chow Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:23:48 -0800 Comment by Gindy 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.

]]> Gindy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091927 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091927 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:16:08 -0800 Comment by Greg Oh no, large portions of fried food have lots of calories? I AM SHOCKED!!!

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091944 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091944 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:12:24 -0800 Comment by COMTE Plus, having everything on the menu smothered in cheese, or gravy, or some sort of "sauce" didn't clue them in?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091968 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:50:05 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay 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.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1091977 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:13:51 -0800 Comment by nicole @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.

]]> nicole http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1092088 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1092088 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:24:44 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I survived the Times Square Howard Johnson's.

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1092104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/this_week_in_fast_food#c1092104 Chow Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:20:11 -0800