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 Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:05 am Post subject: What not to eat |
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Maybe it's way past time to focus on just what many Americans are eating these days. NutritionAction.com, a division of Center for Science in the Public Interest, has been calling attention to some of the horrors being offered up by the fast-food chains. For instance, on September 13 they featured T.G.I. Friday's Tennessee Whiskey Cake:
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What Not to Eat
It Takes the Cake:
T.G.I. Friday’s Tennessee Whiskey Cake is one fattening dessert
Author: Jayne Hurley
If you’ve never heard of a Tennessee Whiskey Cake, maybe you’ve never been to T.G.I. Friday’s. The “warm toffee cake topped with glazed pecans and vanilla ice cream” is “served with butterscotch Jack Daniel’s Whiskey sauce.”
What a perfect ending to a dinner from Friday’s Jack Daniel’s Grill menu. After you’ve polished off your Jack Daniel’s Chicken, Jack Daniel’s Ribs, Jack Daniel’s Black Angus Sirloin & Half-Rack of Ribs, or one of the other eight Jack Daniel’s items, nothing sounds more appealing than a Jack Daniel’s dessert.
After all, the Tennessee Whiskey Cake has a mere 1,270 calories (two-thirds of a day’s worth for most people), 28 grams of saturated fat (a 1½-day supply), and 820 milligrams of sodium (half a day’s quota; no easy feat for a dessert). No dessert at Friday’s has more calories—not the Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie, not the Vanilla Bean Cheesecake, not the Brownie Obsession. It’s like finishing your meal with four McDonald’s Hot Fudge Sundaes.
Even if you split your Whiskey Cake with a dining companion, you’re still looking at over 600 calories and 14 grams of saturated fat. That’s on top of, say, your Jack Daniel’s Ribs and Shrimp (1,730 calories without sides), your New York Cheddar & Bacon Burger (1,410 calories), your Jack Daniel’s Chicken Sandwich (1,140 calories without sides), or your Cajun Shrimp & Chicken Pasta (1,110 calories).
“In here, it’s always Friday,” says the chain. It’s also always Fattening. |
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And from the same source, September 28, 2013, there's the Red Velvet Cake enticing customers at California Pizza Kitchen:
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Code Red Cake
California Pizza Kitchen’s Red Velvet Cake is loaded with calories and fat
Author: Jayne Hurley
“A traditional favorite, frosted with vanilla bean cream cheese and white chocolate curls.” That’s how California Pizza Kitchen describes its Red Velvet Cake.
Like many items on CPK’s dessert menu, the cake is also available “+ Häagen-Dazs.” What a fabulous idea! Why settle for plain old cake, icing, and white chocolate when you can add 300 extra calories’ worth of super-premium ice cream?
You can always depend on California Pizza Kitchen for what its Web site calls “innovative cuisine with a signature twist that’s globally inspired yet distinctly California.” (Does the name Häagen-Dazs count as globally inspired for people who don’t know that it’s a made-up Scandinavian-sounding word?)
Nothing says California like a big piece of cake laced with red food dye. With a scoop of ice cream, it packs 1,090 calories and 31 grams of saturated fat (a 1½-day supply). Nearly half the calories come from white flour and sugar.
And few people go to the chain just for dessert. That means those 1,000+ calories will likely top off a 1,000-calorie pizza or a 1,000-calorie plate of pasta or (yes, it’s true) one of several 1,000-calorie salads.
That is just so California. |
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