The Cheesecake Factory's Pasta Napoletana, in a Parmesan cream sauce,
topped w/ Italian sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, and bacon is 2,310 cals.
I don't believe it....so there.
Posted on 07/31/2017 11:56:25 AM PDT by simpson96
Watch out, diners: There are serious calories in some restaurant meals.
That was the message of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group, as it released its annual "Xtreme Eating Award" winners — the most calorie-stuffed dishes and drinks from the country's chain restaurants.
Topping the list were entrees like The Cheesecake Factory's Pasta Napoletana, which the chain describes as a meat lover's pizza in pasta form. The pasta, dressed in a Parmesan cream sauce, is topped with Italian sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, and bacon and clocks in at 2,310 calories, 79 grams of saturated fat, and 4,370 mg of sodium.
Or the Flying Gorilla, also at The Cheesecake Factory, with 950 calories. The chocolate and banana milkshake, with dark chocolate and banana liqueur, has 26 grams of saturated fat and an estimated 60 grams of added sugar.
The Food and Drug Administration recommends that adults take in around 2,000 calories a day, and health associations generally say Americans should limit saturated fat to 20 grams, sodium to 2,300 milligrams and added sugar to 50 grams per day.
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They're nothing of the kind and we don't need their idiocy here.
Fatty foods are no where near the threat to the people that a fattened of Arbitrary governance and do-gooding government is.
I love these stories. They tell me where I need to go. That Pasta Napoletana looks really good! One thing, though, and this is particularly true of that restaurant: you’ll eat half and take half home with you. Well, I do, anyway. Those styrofoam boxes are bad for the environment, so it’s a two-fer.
The rest is pure hooey.
I love how articles like this just alert people to these meals and more go to try them. I hope the restaurants are well stocked after this one!
The Cheesecake Factory's Pasta Napoletana, in a Parmesan cream sauce,
topped w/ Italian sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, and bacon is 2,310 cals.
I don't believe it....so there.
MMM MMMM MMMM same thought, lets go restaurant hopping and try them all.... hehehe
These stories aren’t about health, really.
They’re about the media asserting its superiority over us proles who like to eat food that actually tastes good.
That, and the fact that some people get their jollies out of nagging and shaming others.
I often get three meals from restaurant meals.
Divide all those scary totals by three to see the effect on normal people.
However, it is true that America is a land of fat asses.
So what. If people want to eat that, I say go for it. So sick of the government overreach. I thought the administration was going to do something about all this. Oh that’s right they hired Kelly.....good grief.
Anything the Center for Science in the Public Interest is against, I’m for.
I really like the way you think. :=)
CSPI is staffed by people horrified at the thought that someone, somewhere, might possibly be happy.
Nasty bunch of scolds, they are.
Hold the bacon and I’m all for it.
Bacon is a side at breakfast to me.
That, and the fact that some people get their jollies out of nagging and shaming others.
Here's a great response...Isaw it on a bum we sticker on the way to work o e day:
Eat right, stay fit, die anyway....
Laughed my @ss off....I live my life by that bumper sticker now!
I’m more concerned with fat government.
Am I the only one that uses the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s annual worst restaurant food list as a menu when I feel like ordering out?
They're nothing of the kind and we don't need their idiocy here.
They are simply some of the worst of the worst. First heard of them when they were whining about Beef Chimichangas and how bad they were for you this had to be 1988, I realized then that they are noting but a bunch of killjoys.
I agree with you. If that is an accurate picture of the serving size, it doesn’t appear to be a particularly large serving.
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