Dec 28
Foods for Thought
Why is it that the foods that are the worst for you always are the ones that taste the best? And more importantly, why can’t someone make healthy food taste like it isn’t.
A short time ago, Men’s Health came out with a list of the 20 worst foods you can order at a restaurant.
Yes, I was tempted to make this a Sunday Seven question, in which you would have had to list the seven most-appealing from that list. The only problem was that the very thought of doing so made me too hungry.
My station did a story on the list, as I’m sure most did, shortly after the list was released. So that we would have video of the offending food items, one of the reporters stopped by a few of the restaurants and ordered items from the list so that we could then tape footage. After the footage was safely recorded, the food was left in a break room and people were invited to partake if they dared.
We dared. Boy, did we dare.
The most painful item on the list was the number one item on the list: Outback’s Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing, which clocks in with 2,900 calories and 182 grams of fat. (And from the moment it hits your taste buds, you start thinking, “calories, schmalories.”)
I haven’t had an order of those wonderful, delicious, awesome unhealthy fries since last January, when I weighed the most I’ve ever weighed in my life.
I’d like to say that I’m completely over them, that their complete absence from my diet never occurs to me.
But we both know better than that, don’t we?
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December 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’ve never had a problem laying off fries. But boy, this Christmas season I sure dove into cheese balls and summer sausage and cheese and crackers and hot dip. Gained 11 pounds, I did. Lost 3 1/2 already though.
There are some healthy foods I love, actually: watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries, peaches. That sort of thing.