I can honestly say I've never had any of those things either. Although I have thought about saving up to try one of those Starbucks salted caramel hot chocolates... There's a French bakery in town that does honest to God real French hot chocolate (basically, a melted chocolate bar), so when I splurge I go there, calories be damned.
Those giant burgers...I always wonder: How do you get your mouth around them?
The hidden calories of American fast food really are shocking.
i had one of the salted caramel starbucks hot chocolates on new years day...got home, looked up the nutrition content on thedailyplate, and was APPALLED...but somehow, i managed to be lighter the next morning, thank the lord...
The only one that doesn't sound completely appalling to me is the dish from Olive Garden(I love Olive Garden), and even then I really don't like pork bacon. This list otherwise, though, just.. bleh.
Wow, crazy coincidence ! I just made myself a caramel hot chocolate ; 1% milk, enough cocoa powder to make bittersweet, dash Torianni caramel syrup, .... oops, guess I forgot the salt and sat down to surf 3FC and went straight to this thread.
1%milk = 120 cal. per cup
1 heaping tablespoon unsweetened cocoa around 50 cal.
1 tablespoon Toriani caramel syrup = about 15 calories
salt = zero calories.
That adds up to less than 200 calories per cup. Not bad. Tome, the secret of good hot cocoa, is more cocoa, less sugar, and you can make it with nonfat milk too. I think I"m going to open up my own chain called : THe HerMit Cafe, and spoof all the 11 worst foods by making low calorie versions.
Last edited by Hermit Girl; 01-07-2009 at 04:41 PM.
I think the scallop salad thing does point out one major and common problem.
I mean - even Glory who is as food aware as they come stated that this is something she might have unwittingly ordered, although with mods it would probably be a good 400 calories less. but still.
Fastfood is often heralded as this huge culprit - I mean you say obesity in america and the golden arches are probably the first thing that pops in most people's heads. But I think they are less of a trap than a sit down place. When I eat at McD's -- and sadly I do far more often NOW than when I was obese - its the only indoor place to play for miles I KNOW I am eating crap and I adjust the rest of my day accordingly. And what i eat at McD's usually ends up totalling around 500-600 calories tops. (Southwest salad, no dressing, sometimes removing the chips or chicken sandwich no dressing and the 3 of us split a small fry)
But "scallop salad" Yeah, I could totally see coming home from a restaurant and thinking that I had done well, maybe even well enough to split a small dessert. And before you railroad "chain restaurants" I've seen lots of upscale places that sling grease and butter and oil around like there is no tomorrow.
I haven't had any of those foods, but I was certainly tempted by the Fully Loaded Nachos (I can't believe how many calories they are, I would have guessed half that!) and the Fully Loaded Box, because I love samplers!
Is it really possible that a salad with seared scallops can have almost as many calories as I currently eat in a day?!
Oy, this really presents a problem for people like me who can't always check nutritional information before I go out to eat (because it's often on a whim and usually at a non-chain). Don't get me wrong, I do believe in indulging once in a while, but if I'm going to spend over 1000 calories on a meal it better be a sinfully decadent one, not a salad.
Well there is a link in that list to Outback's Cheese fries. Cheese fries sounds pretty bad right? Cheese and fried potatoes? Not only that but they add bacon and give a large amount of dressing so it becomes 2900 calories of an appetizer: http://www.menshealth.com/20worst/worstfood.html
I never liked cheese fries myself and I don't eat cheese anymore (or bacon) but we went out to dinner recently with someone who really wanted to go to outback. I ended up having a sweet potato with steamed veggies. One person ordered cheese fries and just looking at it, I could tell it was bad but I wouldn't have even dreamed of 2900 calories.
That is one of the reasons I do favor the NYC law. I know all the arguments against it (ad nauseum) but if people like Glory and Nellie and myself who have been doing this for a LONG time and looking up numbers and stuff can be shocked, well, it just is so difficult sometimes.
and sat down to surf 3FC and went straight to this thread. 
