Comments | tanuwa: I'd like to take a moment

tanuwa

I'd like to take a moment

Mar 04, 2009 13:24

And extoll my hatred while it's still fresh inside of me. Unfortunately, such hate requires a bit of information to fully involve the reader in the hatred ( Read more... )

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zqfmbg March 4 2009, 18:54:53 UTC

Wonder what was in the sandwich that bumped it up so high? I guess nearly everything is suspect, though I'd *like* to think we can still think of lettuce and tomato as relatively low in calories.

One of my coworkers used to diet, and he followed the rule that one day of every week was his slack day, where he could do whatever he wanted. It seemed to work pretty well. And then, after having lost something like 50 lbs, he went off his diet, and re-inflated...

tanuwa March 5 2009, 02:50:55 UTC

I'm guessing it was the bread. I think it may've been foccacia which is the king kong of all breads, but DAYUM, still!

Yeah, I kinda take Saturday off, where I eat like crap but I'm still pretty restrictive about calories... so basically it's my 'no nutritional value' day haha.

drj36 March 4 2009, 19:35:05 UTC

I am 100% with you ( ... )

tanuwa March 5 2009, 02:53:17 UTC

Yeah, this sandwich was from Panera. I looked quickly around and saw that not a single sandwich fell under 700 calories (which still made me feel bad for thinking I had chosen something healthy, when chicken salad was less calories :().

I am not at all convinced that tasty food is equivalent to badness for you. I do think that it's more expensive to sell food that's tasty AND healthy, but that should be the responsibility of the company otherwise they deserve to get their asses sued. If you don't make it healthy, at least make it very easily accessible as to what the nutritional value of the stuff you sell is (McDonalds does this now, but they should put this info next to their menu).

keevon March 4 2009, 20:17:04 UTC

Agreed. It's almost impossible to eat healthily unless you know what you are doing and stay away from 90% of the shit in the grocery store, and don't eat out. It's total madness.

tanuwa March 5 2009, 02:54:22 UTC

Yeah, I used to think that if I ate half of whatever I was presented with that I would be pretty safe. Until I realized that most restaurant entrees START at 1000 calories and just go up from there... I can't even eat 500 calories during a meal, so why bother chancing it?

seishinbyou March 4 2009, 23:32:00 UTC

The only thing I can think of in that sandwich that would bump up the calorie count is a crazy-size serving of Mayo, unless the Turkey was somehow 100% fat.

dr4b March 5 2009, 00:13:26 UTC

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how a turkey sandwich gets up to 970 calories. Might be that I'm imagining 100 calories per slice of bread, 100 calories for the mayo, 300 or so for the turkey?

keevon March 5 2009, 01:47:44 UTC

There could easily be a ton of tasty tasty oil in the bread, and it's very easy to rack up the calories with mayo.

tanuwa March 5 2009, 02:55:08 UTC

I believe it was the bread. Because there really wasn't much mayo on the sandwich. It may've been foccacia bread... delicious delicious foccacia. BUT STILL - how can BREAD be so BAD!?!?

metroid23 March 5 2009, 04:14:58 UTC

Your whole post reminds me of this :)

drj36 March 5 2009, 07:06:43 UTC

Thank you. I think I saw that a few years ago but the refresher course was great.

231% of your daily value of cholesterol. And for Tanya, it's over 500% of daily value proportionally. I can't imagine eating that and not being depressed afterward. WARNING: May cause suicidal thoughts.

keevon March 5 2009, 07:37:27 UTC

As far as I know, there is no actual link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol, and I'm sure most of it is is from the eggs (delicious). I'm a lot more worried by the fact that it's got 60 odd grams of fat, that's just ridiculous for a single meal. That's ridiculous for 2 separate meals.