The Friday Fight: Restaurants Compete for the Scariest Meal on the Menu
Posted by Natalie Deangelo on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 @ 07:14 AM
Good morning, Fighters! Happy Friday!
When the Full Life staff came upon the below article from Men's Health, "The Scariest New Restaurant Foods", we knew this would be one for the Friday Fight. It seems that everyday, restaurants are competing for our attention with the biggest and "best" new offerings, and they're doing it the most destructive way: by making meals even fatter and even more fried. The bread on KFC's fried chicken sandwich is being replaced by more fried chicken. Burgers are being served on donuts instead of buns. Sound Crazy? Check out more examples from the article below:
Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt with wavy fries and marinara
1,260 calories
63 g fat (21 g saturated, 1 g trans)
3,010 mg sodium
CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 18 T.G.I. Friday’s Frozen Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins. Apparently, Denny’s deemed the classic grilled cheese too boring for our novelty seeking taste buds, so they fixed it by driving four deep-fried cheese sticks into the core of the sandwich.
IHOP New York Cheesecake Pancakes
1,270 calories
CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 28 McDonald's Chicken McNuggets
Further blurring the line between dessert and breakfast, IHOP has infused their fluffy flapjacks with gooey hunks of cheesecake. Next thing you know they’ll be serving breakfast with big scoops of ice cream and chocolate syrup.
Friendly’s Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt1,500 calories97 g fat (38 g saturated)2,090 mg sodiumCALORIE EQUIVALENT: 15 Snickers Kudos Granola Bars. Is this a joke? Because it should be. Where a normal hamburger has buns, this one has grilled cheese sandwiches
Full Life's thoughts? Don't buy in! If Americans stop taking an interest in these crazy calorie creations, marketers will stop making a point to WOW us with more fat. Let's take an interest in fruits and vegetables instead. Let's take an interest in physical activity. Wouldn't it be great if Fast Food restaurants were banished completely? Well, I might be living in a dream world on that one. But if you banish them from your life, that's one less person marketers can effect with calorie destructions!