Calorie counting at restaurants?
Not as far as I’m concerned.
Sorry, but as much as the government wants me to know that Burger King's Double Whopper w/Cheese has 1010 calories or that McDonald's Deluxe Breakfast (Lg. size Biscuit) w/o Syrup & Margarine has 1140 calories in order to try to shame me into purchasing a side salad (20 calories) with no dressing, I’m not going to look. Okay…I don’t order those food items…but someone does. It doesn’t matter though, I still don’t need to be told the calories I’m eating.
It's my choice in the end, though. If I don’t want to look at it, I don’t have to. I know there are people who are looking; and counting. If I’m going to go to a fast food restaurant I’m not just going to order a salad. To me, a salad accompanies a meal at a nice restaurant. I just can’t do it. I just wonder why the salad people are in a fast food restaurant in the first place? Although, I’ve noticed there are a lot of varieties of salads now for the skinny bunch.
I find the best way to lose 10-15 pounds is the liquid way. The first time for me was by cutting out regular soda and going to diet instead. I never thought I would be capable of doing that. I hated the taste. Then I finally let those two words one of my doctors (who’s really overweight) always said sink in, “wasted calories.” That was the easiest way to lose 10 pounds. I figure if someone who drinks a couple alcoholic drinks everyday would cut those out, they could lose 15 pounds easily (vodka martini - 210 calories, beer - about 45 calories, wine - about 100 calories).
But then came along McDonald’s Iced Coffee (280 calories) and Starbucks Peppermint Mocha (222 calories). The cost is a detour for the Starbucks…It seems like in four sips that little cup is gone…and so is $4 for what was just some glorified hot chocolate.
Summer is always bad….Kopp’s is hard to resist. Boy, that can really put on the pounds. And as much as some people might not want a Dairy Queen in the neighborhood…just having it closer than Kopp’s is going to make it just as appetizing for a Tropical Blizzard (about 675 calories). Ding, ding, ding…the calories are adding up and the picture in my head is like looking at a slot machine...loser! But I get three ice cream cones.
So, back to the original theme of this post. Shame! That’s what its all about. It wasn’t that hard for people to ask for the information, or have it printed in a pamphlet on the counter, was it? Next they’ll have meat cutting charts of beef steers and pigs up on the signs next to the pictures of the hamburgers and ribs.
And to please PETA, how about a before shot of the animals when they were frolicking on the farm before they were butchered? That will shame you too.
Chicken Nugget
Maybe all this shaming will just make you turn around and leave.
Now that will be good for business.
So, now that you’ve read my rant, you can read about Manhattan....
"City health inspectors began issuing violation notices on Monday to restaurants that did not have calorie counts posted beside the prices on their menu boards."
"By day’s end, five restaurants had been cited, the health department said. They were Dunkin’ Donuts at 445 Park Avenue South, at East 30th Street; McDonald’s at 1560 Broadway, at West 46th Street; Popeye’s, at 321 West 125th Street, between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue; Sbarro at 22 West 34th Street, next to the Empire State Building; and TGI Friday’s at 677 Lexington Avenue, at East 56th Street."
Read the article in the New York Times
5 Restaurants in Manhattan Get Citations Over Calories × here
Shame on them!
