Posted on 05/26/2010 6:01:40 PM PDT by Nachum
A 2,000-CALORIE milkshake that is the equivalent of 68 rashers of bacon and 30 chocolate-chip cookies has been dubbed the worst drink in the US.
Made with chocolate ice cream, milk and peanut butter, the drink - called the Cold Stone PB&C - packs a whopping 2,010 calories, 131 grams of fat - 68 grams of which is saturated - and a massive 153 grams of sugar.
It topped the Men's Health 20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 list, beating a McDonald's Triple Thick Chocolate Milkshake to the post.
Delicious
The magazine said on its website: "In terms of saturated fat, drinking this Cold Stone catastrophe is like slurping up 68 strips of bacon."
"Health experts recommend capping your saturated fat intake at about 20 grams per day, yet this beverage packs more than three times that into a cup..."
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Hm. I’d rather have the bacon and chocolate chip cookies.
I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready!
Hey, you’re going to need something to wash it down with :)
I’ll take the diet version, thanks.
How can it be bad if it has chocolate, milk, peanut butter and bacon in it? Did they forget eggs or something?
LOL! Sounds delicious!
For those on Weight Watchers I figure it’s 50 points!!!!!!!! YIKES!
And somewhere out there in the dark, some self righteous prig is just pulling their hair out trying to find a way to make this thing illegal.
What the hell is a rasher? Do I need a cream for that?
LOL! Most members of the Democrap Party!
I used to eat a whole fresh baked french bread in one sitting when I was in my 20s and training for a marathon...along with a whole gallon of water and a couple bananas. This was AFTER running of course, not before.
Equal to 13 apple pies? Man that's some shake.
I am on my way to get one.
You got that right.
I’ll take one! With topping of real whipped cream, sweetened.
I hate to tell the health police; but peanut butter and milk are much better for you in the afternoon at work than most anything. They really mellow you out.
Oh yeah. When I was playing college soccer, I could pack it away. The team used to have steak and eggs the morning of a game.
I’ll take one! With topping of real whipped cream, sweetened.
LOL!
It’s only missing one of the four food groups (chocolate, grease, alcohol and salt), but a shot of Kahlua would help that. :-)
Good grief. I don’t even eat 2,000 calories a day.
so what? live life don’t live in fear...
this is stupid, the recipe doesn’t call for bacon or
chocolate chip cookies!!!
Although certainly if you crumbled up a couple of strips
of bacon and a cookie or two you WOULD have a heck of
a shake. No need for a burger...
Now that they mention it, bacon is the missing ingredient in that shake.
I go anywhere from 2000 to 3000 Kcals/day. My standard malt is closer to 1300 Kcals and doesn't include peanut butter. But I eat plenty of BPJ sandwiches. All to try to maintain 118 lbs.
Different metabolisms, different requirements. One size fits all democratic thinking proven not to work again in the real world.
/johnny
I remember when I was taking PE in junior high, they had us keep a food journal for awhile to calculate our calories and nutrition over a long term period(like a semester) as a homework project.(it may have been 10th grade, I quit taking PE after the tenth grade)
I had to lie because I was eating over 5000 calories a day. And I was a skinny little kid, not quite the smallest in my class but certainly well below the middle or median. I was on the wrestling team in the 9th grade and wrestled at 104 I think, at the beginning of the season, and finished at 112 at the end of the season.
“What the hell is a rasher?”
It’s one slice, which is hardly enough.
Wrestling sucks. I had to cut weight to make it. I was always hungry. That’s why I liked soccer better :)
Saturated fat and I are BUDDIES! If it’s not saturated, I won’t eat it.
I didn’t have to cut any weight. I was at the very very bottom with almost no one to compete with. So the bigger i got, the more fun it became. One benefit of being a scrawny little sh1t, i suppose.
You know, i maintained that crazy appetite until almost age 40! Then things started to fall apart and slow down and I couldn’t exercize like a lunatic anymore and therefore couldn’t burn mega calories...actually, I quit being so hungry also. It don’t make much sense, but the bigger I get, the less I can eat.
Now I'm at my playing weight in my college days. It is fun to get out and do some hard exercise again after a number of years. It was all about eating.
It's just a slice of bacon. The people writing menus try to sound sophisticated and appetizing. Would you like a fillet of sole sautéed in a clarified ghee or a slice of dead fish fried in butter?
God I love this country.
Isn't that the truth. I generally can keep steady at 1600 cal / day. When I'm intensely active physically, I can go as high as 3000 cal and not see a spike in the weight. Mr. Peel, on the other hand, is diabetic and has a terrible time shedding a couple of pounds. We recently discovered Vitamin D as a supplement to help sluggish metabolism and that appears to be working.
A 2,000-CALORIE milkshake is the equivalent of 68 rashers of bacon and 30 chocolate-chip cookies? Bull. The bacon and cookies would add up to 9388, according to the Nutritiondata.com website.
Taking an average of 41 calories for a pan fried slice of bacon, 68 strips would be 2788...PLUS the 30 cookies, at 220 calories each (6,600) = 9388. [I based it on a standard Toll House Cookie from Burker King.]
Then they say the McDonald’s Triple Thick Chocolate Shake is 1,160 calories or the equivalent of 13 McDonald’s apple pies. Those pies would have to be 89 calories. In fact, they’re 249. 13 of them would be 3,327 calories. Do these people not have editors and fact checkers? A calculator? A pen and paper? Even if their numbers sounded plausible (which they don’t), you’d think that someone would bother to check.
I can’t believe I took the time to look up this stuff—except that junk science, junk nutrition, and junk articles and crappy “journalism” IRRITATE THE HELL OUT OF ME.
1. Worst Beverage in America Cold Stone PB&C (Gotta Have It size, 24 fl oz) 2,010 calories 131 g fat (68 g saturated) 153 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies In terms of saturated fat, drinking this Cold Stone catastrophe is like slurping up 68 strips of bacon. Health experts recommend capping your saturated fat intake at about 20 grams per day, yet this beverage packs more than three times that into a cup the size of a Chipotle burrito. But here’s what’s worse: No regular shake at Cold Stone, no matter what the size, has fewer than 1,000 calories. If you must drink your ice cream, make it one of the creamery’s “Sinless” options. Otherwise you’d better plan on buying some bigger pants on the way home. Drink This Instead! Sinless Oh Fudge Shake (Like It size, 16 fl oz) 490 calories 2 g fat (2 g saturated) 44 g sugars
Cold Stone Creamery Milk Shake PB&C (Peanut Butter & Chocolate) Got Get me some.
Nowdays you’d be lucky to find a teen that would mow a yard all at once without a break...and that’s with a riding mower.
If I remember right from my WW days...1 slice of bacon=1pt. Of course, things could have changed since then.
Can I request to have the bacon put into the shake?
Sounds good to me!
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