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Culinary no-no #54
By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, May 11 2008, 02:17 PM
A glazed donut and latte at Dunkin’ Donuts.
A McDonald’s Big Mac and fries.
Spicy fried chicken meal at Popeye’s.
Simple question………do these items have few or many calories?
Let's see.
Donut and latte at Dunkin’ Donuts: 350.
The Big Mac and fires have 790.
The Popeyes’ meal will get you 1100.
You more or less knew all that.
And you didn’t need me to tell you.
But in New York, certain restaurants, like the ones mentioned above, must post the number of calories for each item on their menu boards or face fines beginning in July.
Yes, there are food police.
Pencil-pushing inspectors are now barging into restaurants, clipboards and cameras in hand, handing out citations. They’re doing it in typical bureaucrat fashion, humorless and threatening.
Enforcement is inconsistent.
One inspector may say the calorie warning is fine.
Another might look at the sign and say it’s not BOLD enough.
Certainly we can figure out if a quarter pounder is loaded with calories.
Do we really need the government to dictate to businesses that they must plaster their menu boards with calorie totals?
I say no-no.
Read the NY Times story:
Paul Rivera, the manager of a Dunkin’ Donuts on Park Avenue South, indicating the number of calories in a drink the shop serves.
By JAMES BARRON
Published: May 6, 2008 5 Restaurants in Manhattan Get Citations Over Calories
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