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Jul 09Interlude Inter…food?
As Caroline put it today, “For someone with…an insatiable nutty curiosity, your blog has been awfully quiet lately.” Updates on more serious topics are coming, but I’d like to start with a bleg: does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with severe, multi-day muscle pain?
Also, Ezra Klein’s revelation that even Potbelly’s vegetarian sandwich has 550 calories and 60% of your day’s saturated fat (thanks to the three kinds of cheese they put on it) was quickly followed by his Cheesecake Factory roundup. Takeaways:
- Michael Ruhlman thinks the Cheesecake Factory does, in fact, rock.
- You should never, ever, ever order mashed potatoes there (bottom of this image from Calorie Lab).
- The CF’s miso-glazed salmon weighs in at 1,673 calories, 500 more than their chicken piccata and across-the-board worse for you than their shrimp scampi, though it doesn’t come close to the 2134-calorie, 81-grams-of-saturated-fat monstrosity that is the pasta carbonara. As Ezra notes, both miso and salmon are pretty low-fat, so I’m curious as to where all that gut-busting comes from.
This is a pretty compelling reason to require nutrition information on restaurant menus (and though I’m no great fan of Cosi, they’re one of the few chains that does so).
Update: Caroline just linked me to this fascinating look at fast-food hamburgers (PDF). Just so you know, the average fast-food burger is 12.1% meat. I’ll let you find out what the other 87.9% is on your own.
Tagged: food, health, restaurants, tangents
July 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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